202 *" [February, 



European species, hcemorrhous, Herbst. (scortillum, Herbst.), and 

 alpinus, Hampe ; this genus, by reason of its longer rostrum, ap- 

 proaches rather nearer Ceuthorrhynchus than is the case with the rest 

 of the sub-genera, and is somewhat intermediate between the latter 

 genus and Amalus, as characterized by M. Bedel ; in the formation of 

 the prosternum, however, it is closely allied to fflinoncus, and if we 

 include it under that group, the name Amalus must be adopted for 

 the whole, as it was published by Schonherr in 1826, and precedes 

 ffliinoncus and Pachyrrhinus by five years, and Phytobius by ten years. 



At present the genera of the ffliynchophora are by no means 

 settled. M. Bedel's work is the most valuable contribution to their 

 classification that has appeared for a loug time, but a very great deal 

 more work requires to be done before we can be said even to know 

 the outlines of the group as a whole ; students of the Gurculionidcs 

 must, therefore, be prepared to find their notions regarding the genera 

 entirely upset. 



I may add that I shall be extremely obliged to any collector who 

 will furnish me with localities for any of the rarer species of ffliyn- 

 chophora occurring in Britain. * 



Lincoln : November 15th, 1888. 



DESCRIPTION OP A NEW SPECIES OF NEOTEOPICAL CAPSID2E. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT, F.E.S. 



My friend, Mr. McLachlan, has forwarded some specimens of 

 CapsidcB (received by him from Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew) to me for determination, which he states 

 are — in a living condition — doing much damage to orchids in the 

 Botanic Gardens at Trinidad. On examination, these prove to belong 

 to the genus Eccritotarsus, and to apparently represent an undescribed 

 species, the diagnosis of which is here appended. 



ECCRITOTARSUS EXITIOSUS, n. sp, 

 Head and thorax, above and beneath, and extreme base of corium, sanguineous ; 

 scutellum, corium, excluding base, cuneus and abdomen beneath, shining bluish- 

 black ; membrane fuscous, their apices paler ; antennae with the first and second 

 joints black, third and fourth joints luteous ; coxa? and legs luteous ; apices of the 

 femora and anterior tibiaa, and the whole of the intermediate and posterior tibiee, 

 dark fuscous or black ; rostrum luteous, the base and apex blackish ; eyes black. 



Long., 4£ mm. 

 Purlcy : December 3lst, 1888. 



