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the apex, the anterior margin slightly bisinuated, the base more deeply so: 

 elytra elongate, generally with a protuberance near the apex, the latter 

 rounded : legs short, subequal : Jemora unarmed: tihiw with the apex slightly 

 widened, and furnished within with a short horizontal hook. 



The insects of this genus are of large size, and are distinguished 

 by their elongated pubescent body, united to the stout, short 

 rostrum, bearing the antennae towards the apex, and having the 

 basal joint of the funiculus longer than the second, the thorax sub- 

 conic, obsoletely constricted towards the apexy the elytra with a 

 callosity behind, &c. : — their larvae subsist upon the roots of plants, 

 to which they are at times very injurious. 



A. With the rostrum carinated. 



Sp. 1. distinctus. Niger, cinereo-varius, thorace antice lituris duabus Jlexuosis, 



elytrisque maculis duabus, subocellatis cinereo-cdbidis. 

 Cu. distinctus. Fabricius. — CL distinctus. Steph. Catal. 181. No. 1855. 



Black, varied with cinereous pubescence : rostrum with two deep sulci, divided 

 by a longitudinal carina : thorax with an obscure dorsal carina, the sides with 

 a whitish flexuous, interrupted streak, most distinct on the anterior portion ; 

 the base with an irregular transverse black fascia : elytra obscurely striated, 

 with several obscure rows of elevated ashy hairs, and each with two distinct 

 white spots, behind the middle, the anterior of which is somewhat divided ; 

 towards the base are some paler dashes : on the breast are some fascicles of 

 ashy down, and the margins of the abdominal segments are pale : legs black, 

 with cinereous pubescence. 



I have seen but two examples of this rare insect, one of which 

 is in the collection of N. A. Vigors, Esq., the other in my own 

 cabinet : the latter was captured near Coombe-wood, about twenty 

 years since. 



quadrate, with the disc longitudinally porcate, the anterior margin lobate 

 behind the eyes; these last depressed, concealed? during repose: elytra 

 broad, convex, the apex abruptly retuse, the disc unequal : legs ;short, stout : 

 femora unarmed : tibice straight, with a hook at the apex within : tarsi broad, 

 stout, setose, armed at the tip with two long, distant claws. 



This singular genus of Curculionidje, named as above from its deformity, 

 the most conspicuous of all the indigenous groups of the family, approaches 

 closely to the genus Cryptops of Schonherr, but from that genus there are 

 many points of dissimilarity, especially in the structure of the antennae, the 

 porcate thorax, and elytra ; though it agrees in having the anterior under surface 



