Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptera of St. Helena. 413 



funiculus is composed of only five joints (instead of seven), 

 whilst there is no trace of a pectoral groove for the reception 

 of its rostrum. It is consequently excluded from the whole 

 subfamily CryjJtorliynchides by this latter circumstance alone; 

 whilst from the Cossomdes, with some of the genera of which 

 it would agree as regards tlie former, it is altogether remote." 

 But now that its affinities have been satisfactorily cleared up 

 by Lacordaire, I feel that no further comment on its structure 

 is necessary. 



I. Funicidi art"^ 2'^^ primo sublongior. 



47. Nesiotes squamosus. 



N. ovatus, nigro-piceus, opacus, alutaceus (nee punctatus, nee tuber- 

 eulatus), squamis fulvo-cinereis crassis demissis plus minus ves- 

 titus ; prothorace subeonvexo, mox ante medium rotundato-am- 

 pliato, postice angustiore subreeto ; elytris convexis, ventricosis, 

 in medio facile rotundato-ampliatis et ibidem prothorace multo 

 latioribus ; antennis gracilibus, rufo-ferrugineis, basin versus 

 clarioribus ; pedibus crassis, squamosis, tarsis clarioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1|. 



Nesiotes squmnosusj Well., loc. cit. 212, pi. 14. f. 3 (1861). 



The only examples of this interesting little Curculionid 

 which I have yet seen are two which were taken at St. Helena 

 by the late Mr. Bewicke, during a few hours' collecting in that 

 island, en route from the Cape of Good Hoj)e to Madeira, in 

 1860. Apart from the greater length of its second funiculus- 

 joint, it may at once be known from the following species by 

 its much broader and more ovate or ventricose outline (the 

 elytra about the middle being very mijch wider than the pro- 

 thorax), and by its surface, when denuded of the decumbent 

 fulvescent scales, being simply alutaceous throughout, having 

 no appearance of either punctures or tubercles. If, also, my 

 two specimens may be relied upon, it would seem to be free 

 from the short erect setce which (in addition to the coarse mud- 

 like scales) stud the N. asperatus. 



II. Funiculi arP^ 2*^"* primo subbrevior. 



48. Nesiotes asjjeratus, n. sp. 



N. ovato-oblongus, elongatus, angustiilus, nigro-piceus, opacus, alu- 

 taceus necnon grosse granulato-asperatus, squamis fulvo-cinereis 

 quasi lutosis setulisque brevibus erectis dense vestitus ; prothorace 

 subinsequali, (subter squamis) tuberculis crebre asperato, ad latera 

 leviter rotundato ; elytris angustulis, subovato-elongatis, pone 

 medium facile vix rotundatis, (subter squamis) tuberculis in spa- 



