90 MANdFbULATA.— COLEOPTERA. 



Genus CCCVIII. — Orthochjetes, Midler, 



AntenncB geniculatedj 12-jointed, inserted between the base and the apex of the 

 rostrum : the scape reaching the base of the latter, and a Uttle incrassated at 

 the tip; funiculus 6-jointedj slender, its basal joint rather largest, clavate; 

 remainder lenticular, setose, subequal; club thick, ovate-globose, subsolid. 

 Rostrum as long as the thorax, rather stout, a little bent, rugose, carinated 

 above : eyes small, globose : thorax cylindric, coarctate towards the apex, 

 slightly emarginate beneath : jrcM^eZZwOT wanting: <?Z?/#ra oblong-oval, united: 

 legs short, subequal ; femora unarmed ; tibia within a little sinuated, with 

 the apex truncate, unarmed. 



The extraordinary insect whicli forms the present genus may 

 be known from its allies by its elongated apterous body — the 

 elytra being connate, or united — covered throughout with erect, 

 somewhat rigid setae : the thorax is cylindric, coarctate ; the scu- 

 tellum is wanting: the antennae have a six-jointed funiculus; — by 

 which character it evidently differs from the genus Styphlus of 

 Schonherr, which that writer says has seven joints, but the in- 

 digenous species agrees with Germar's definition. 



Sp. 1. setiger. Rufescens, elytris subpiinctato-sulcatis, inter stitiis alternis ele~ 



vatioribus, carinatis, seriatim setosis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^ liia.) 

 Or. setiger. Germar.—Steph. Catal. 167. No. 1704. 



DuU ferruginous, with the abdomen dusky : thorax with an obsolete dorsal 

 channel, sparingly clothed with compressed decumbent griseous setae : elytra 

 deeply sulcate, the sulci obsoletely punctate, the interstices convex, the alter- 

 nate ones and the suture elevated, forming ribs, each bearing a simple series 

 of erect griseous setae: legs also clothed with griseous setae. 



I have thrice picked up examples of this extraordinary insect in 

 the neighbourhood of London ; once in a flooded cart-rut on Epping- 

 forest, near Walthamstow, under some aspen-trees, in March; and 

 a second time near Hertford, and again near Ripley : it likewise 

 occurs in Norfolk, so that it appears pretty widely dispersed. " Near 

 Fakenham," — Rev. T. SJfcrimshire. 



Genus CCCIX. — Procas* mihi. 



AntenncB geniculated, 12-jointed, somewhat elongate, slender ; funiculus 7-jointed, 

 the two basal joints elongate, obconic, subequal; i^mainder short, nodose, 



* Procas : nomen viri. 



