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June 28, 1842. 
William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
A Monograph on the Coleopterous family Phyllophoride, by the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, was read. Following are the characters of the 
new species and genera contained in this paper. 
Family PoyiLopnHorips£, Hope. 
Genus Phyllophorus, Hope. 
Foemina antennis filiformibus 11-articulatis, articulo |™° magno, ex- 
terné crassiore, duobus proximis brevibus, 7 sequentibus gradatim 
increscentibus et feré trigonis, ultimo autem ovale, apice parum 
minori. Palpi haud securiformes. Caput impressum, maxillis 
obtusis unidentatis. Thorav lateribus carinatis, angulis posticis 
subspinosis, anticis subrotundatis. Elytra thorace quintuplo lon- 
giora, sulcata et rugosa, lateribus elevatis. 
Phyllophorus gigas. later gigas, Fab., Syst. Eleut. 
Genus Tetralobus, Serville. 
Tetralobus flabellicornis. later flabellicornis, Fab. 
Tetralobus cinereus, Gory, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, tom. i. 
p. 220. pl. 4. fig. 1. 
Terratosus Goryi. Tetr. Mas, fusco-cinereus, capite fere qua- 
drato, antict subexcavato, angulis anterioribus rotundatis. Thorax 
marginatus, valde convexus, ad scutellum elevatus, utrinque de- 
pressus, angulis posticis oblique acutis. Elytra thorace triplo 
longiora, postice rotundata, lineis elevatis parum distinctis, tomen- 
tosa. Corpus infra piceo-cinereum, pectore pubescenti. Pedes 
tomentosi, femoribus compressis, tibiis subarcuatis, tarsisque flavo- 
membranaceis. Annuli abdominis utrinque foveolati. Long. corp. 
184 lin. ; lat. 53 lin. 
Hab. forsitan in Africa. 
Feemina differt, long. 21 lin., lat. 6 lin.; antennis serratis, arti- 
culo ultimo tribus antecedentibus quali, subacuto, abdomine 
multo convexiore. 
A small variety of the above species exists in the rich cabinet of 
M. Dupont at Paris, and has been named by him TJ. Sennarius. It 
measures twenty lines in length, and differs also in the colour of its 
pubescence. 
Tzrratosus Durontr. Tetr. nigro-cinereus, capite fer? quadrato, 
antice excavato, tomentoso, angulis anticis rotundatis. Thorax 
converus, subtilissime punctulatus haud foveis binis in medio im- 
