354 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Curculionidce. 



scrobes directed to the lower margin of the eye. The type 13 

 E. macilentus (Ann. Mus. Civico de Genova, ser. 2, vol. ii. 

 p. 220, tav. i. %. 6). 



Ex^TODERES. 



Caput latum ; rostrum perbreve, capite angustius ; scrohes ante oculos 

 desinentes, OcuU rotundati, grosse granulati ; scapus antenna- 

 rum pone oculum extensus. ProtJiorax subtransversus, lobis 

 ocularibus nuUis. Elytra convexa, protboracis basi ibi baud 

 latiora. Femora mtitica ; tihice inermes ; tarsi tenues, articulo 

 penultimo baud lobato. Pectus breve. Episterna metatboracica 

 elytris caelata, segmenfcum basale abdominis vix ampliatum. 



This genus wants two or three of the characters assigned 

 to the Tanyrhynchinse by Lacordaire, notably of the rostrum 

 and tarsi ; the former is very short and broad and the latter 

 are nearly filiform, the claw -joint being received in a cavity 

 of the preceding. 



Excetoderes scahripennis. 



E. subellipticus, toraento pilisque griseo-brunneis omnino tectus ; 

 elytra elongato-cordata, lineis elevatis tuberculatis munita. 

 Long. 6 lin. 



Hah, Capetown. 



Clothed with a uniformly greyish tomentum and paler 

 approximate hairs. Head broad and convex in front ; ros- 

 trum much shorter and marked off by two oblique, slightly 

 impressed lines ; antennse ferruginous, pubescent ; funicle 

 with the first joint nearly as long as the two next together ; 

 prothorax as long as broad, constricted anteriorly, the sides 

 then rounded and covered with minute granules, each tipped 

 with a recumbent hair, the middle with a short black line; 

 scutellum not apparent ; elytra oblong-cordate, each with 

 seven more or less elevated tuberculate lines ; tubercles 

 small, many of them tipped with a hair much longer than 

 those elsewhere ; tibiae straight, dilated at the apex. 



Alcides g alius. 



A. oblongus, nitide rufo-castaneus ; rostro elongato, subtilifcer punc- 

 tate ; prothorace granulate, in medio cannula lineare munito ; 

 elytris postice gradatim angnstioribus, striato-punctatis, inter- 

 stitiis subtransversim impressis. Long. 4 Hn. 



Hah. Saylee. 



Oblong, glossy reddish chestnut ; rostrum slender, nearly 

 twice as long as the prothorax, minutely punctured j antennse 



