CURCULIONIDiE. — PROCAS. 91 



subtruncate, gradually increasing in breadth ; club oblong-ovate, acuminate. 

 Bostrum long, subclavate, rounded, and slightly bent : eyes depressed, lateral: 

 thorax with the sides rounded, the base bisinuated, disc convex : scutellum 

 minute, rounded : elytra oblong-ovate, glabrous ; the shoulders obtusely an- 

 gulated: legs rather slender ; /emora subclavate, unarmed; tibi(s straight* 

 truncate, unarmed. 



Although the insects in this genus considerably resemble those 

 of the succeeding one, from which they chiefly differ externally by 

 being nearly destitute of the squamous covering, that forms generally 

 so prominent an ornament of the insects in this family, I have ad- 

 hered to the separation proposed in my Systematic Catalogue : the 

 rostrum is, however, considerably longer ; the thorax more globose, 

 and evidently sinuated behind; the legs longer and more slender, 

 pilose; and the antennse slightly different in structure, and more 

 slender. 



Sp. 1. picipes. Niger, obscurus, elytris punctato-striatis,interstitiistransversimr 



rugosis, antennis tarsisque rufo-piceis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin.) 

 Cu. picipes. Marsham. — G. n. picipes. Steph. Catal. 167. No. 1705. 



Black, obscure: rostrum rugose, slightly carinated: head finely punctured ^ 

 thorax with a smooth dorsal carina; the disc very thickly and somewhat 

 coarsely punctate : elytra punctate-striated, the interstices thickly and trans- 

 versely rugose, granulated, obsoletely clouded with a few cinereous hairs : 

 legs black or pitchy-black, pilose, with pale griseous hairs on the tibiae ; tarsi 

 rufo-piceous : antennae rufescent, villose. 



Rare near London : it has, however, been taken several times 

 in Battersea-fields in June : — it occurs in Norfolk, and in Somerset- 

 shire. 



Sp. 2. pyrrhodactylus. Niger, obscurus, elytris profunda striatis, interstitiis 

 subpunctatis, antennarum hasi, ungulisque rujis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Cu. pyrrhodactylus. Marsham. — ^N. G. pyrrhodactylus. Steph. Catal. 167. 

 No. 1706. 



5/acA:, obscure: rostrum rather short : head pubescent: thorax slightly pubescent, 

 with an obsolete dorsal carina, the disc punctured : elytra clothed with a slight 

 olivaceous pubescence, deeply striated, the interstices j^we/?/ punctured : legs 

 black, with cinereous hairs ; claws rufous : body beneath clothed with cinereous 



scales; antennae rufous at the base, the terminal joints and club dusky-black. 



/ 

 Very rare: my specimens (which are the only examples I have 

 seen) I obtained from the Marshamian cabinet. 



