46 MANDIBULATA.-^COLEOPTERA. 



Cu. globulus. Herbsi.—N. G. globulus. Steph. Catal. 157. No. 1600. 



Black, somewhat opaque; beneath clothed with ashy scales: head obsoletely 

 punctate : thorax with an obsolete dorsal groove, and an impression on each 

 side, towards the base, thickly and deeply punctate, with a few whitish scales 

 in the dorsal channel and on the sides : elytra very deeply sulcate, with large 

 deep punctures in the sulci, the interstices slightly crenate: legs pitchy- 

 black, with ashy- white cinereous scales : rostrum black, punctate : antennfe 

 pitchy-black. 

 Apparently rare : I possess three examples, taken by myself 



many years since on a sallow in Coombe-wood. 



Genus CGLXXXIX. — Cryptorhynchus, * Illiger. 



Antennae geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and slender ; funiculus 7-jointed ; 

 its basal joint rather stout, elongate, obconic; the two following also elongate, 

 subclavate; the remainder gradually shortening, subnodose; club oval. 

 Rostrum moderately long, bent, inserted during repose in a pectoral cavity 

 extending to the posterior extremity of the base of the intermediate legs, 

 where it is strongly margined ; ei/es lateral, ovate, remote : thorax subconic, 

 narrowed towards the apex, and lobate behind the eyes : scutellum distinct, 

 rounded : elytra subovate, convex, fasciculated, attenuated posteriorly, with a 

 callosity towards the apex ; the shoulders angulated : legs elongate, subdentate; 

 tibicB bent at the base, the apex with a hook within. 



The chief characters of the only indigenous Cryptorhynchus 

 which I have seen consist of the elongation of the three basal joints 

 of the funiculus and the oval club of the antennae, the elongate pec- 

 toral cavity for the reception of the rostrum, united to the distinct 

 scutellum, tuberculated elytra, and the bent base of the tibise. 



Sp. 1. Lapathi. Niger, opacus, thoracis lateribus, elytrorumque fascia baseos 

 apiceque albo-squaynosis, thorace elytrisque atro-fasciculatis. (Long. corp. 

 4—6 hn.) 



Cu. Lapathi. TAnne. — Linn. Trans. (Curtis), i. 86. pi. 5.f. 1 — 5. — Cr. Lapathi. 

 Steph. Catal. 158. No. 1601. 



■ * With respect to Cr. Roboris, Curtis, I am ignorant; but as that most 

 singular insect Brotheus porcatus is by that writer associated therewith, it is 

 impossible to conjecture whether it is even allied to Cr. Lapathi : a point of 

 greater uncertainty, as he considers that his insect may possibly be synonymous 

 with Rh. Fraxini of Gyllenhal (which is the type of the genus Cleopis) ! 



