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some measure, an isosceles triangle with the base rounded, and the vertex, 

 downwards : prothorax subglobose ; antepectus emarginate, sides obso- 

 letely lobed : scutellum very minute, triangular ; coleoptera oblong : 

 thighs unarmed ; tibiae armed with a very minute incurved spine or spur ; 

 tarsi not dilated, penultimate joint bipartite. 



At first sight the species of this little group would be set aside as 

 belonging to Sitona Germer, with which they possess many characters in 

 common ; a closer inspection, however, will satisfactorily prove that they 

 belong to different genera. In the genus just named, the rostrum is 

 shorter, thicker, and channelled ; the knob of the antennae consists only 

 of three joints, the bed of the scape turns below the eye , the eye itself is 

 round : the antepectus is not emarginate, or lobed ; the tibiai have no 

 incurved soine. 



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[200.] 267. MACRors MACULicoLLTS Kirby. — Plate viii., fig. 4. — 

 Length of })ody 2 lines. Two .specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



Body black, rather hoary from decumbent hairs and scales. Rostrum 

 very minutely punctured ; ridge reaching from the base to the apex ; stalk 

 of the antennai a dull-red : prothorax minutely and thickly punctured, 

 obsoletely ridged, having the sides, especially at the base, covered with 

 little white scales : elytra furrowed, furrows punctured : tibiae, tarsi, and 

 base of the thighs of a dull obscure red, posterior thighs on the inside 

 more distinctly rufous. 



268. Macrops vitticollis Kirby. — Length of body 25^ lines. A 

 single specimen taken. 



Body covered with brownish- black scales. Rostrum ridged it the 

 tip, the rest covered with scales, which perhaps conceal the remainder of 

 the ridge ; stalk of the antennae rufous : prothorax with three narrow pale 

 stripes, the lateral ones a little waved : scutellum pale ; elytra slightly 

 furrowed ; furrows minutely punctured ; mottled with pale : tibiae and 

 tarsi, the former obscurely, rufous. 



[201.] GENUS LEPIDOPHORUS. 



Body covered with scales. Antennae longer than the head, eleven- 

 jointed ; scape as long as the remainder of the antennae, reaching to the 

 eye, growing gradually thicker towards the apex , pedicel as long as the 

 two following joints, obconical ; the remaining joints of the stalk rather 

 top-shaped ; knob three-jointed, ovate, acute ; rostrum shorter than the 

 prothorax, thick, subcylindrical, straight; bed of the scape of the antennae 

 very short, not reaching the eye ; eyes subobtusangular, with the vertex 

 4ownwards : prothorax rat'ier longer than wide, barrel-shaped : elytra 



