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depressed: eyes large^ rounded, united in the forehead: thorax short, with 

 the sides rounded, the base and apex truncate : elytra obovate, truncate ante- 

 riorly, with the apex shghtly rounded : legs moderate : femora unarmed, and 

 considerably incrassated, the posterior formed for leaping. 



This singular little genus contains one rather variable species 

 only, which is perhaps the most minute one of the family : it may 

 be readily known by its elongate, filiform, inflexed rostrum, having 

 a pair of short straight antennae at its base, and by the hinder 

 femora being considerably incrassated, and the legs consequently 

 formed for leaping. 



Sp. 1. pulicarius. Niger, suhnitidus, antennis basi testaceis, elytris striatis- 



(Long. Corp. \ — | hn.) 

 Cu. pulicarius. Herbst.—Wa.. pulicarius. Steph. Catal. 189. No. 1966. 



Black, slightly shining: headminute, finely punctured; eyes concolorous : thorax 

 with a transverse impression near the anterior margin, and an obsolete dorsal 

 furrow, very finely punctulate : elytra rather convex, shining, regularly punc- 

 tate-striate, with the interstices flat and smooth: antennae pale testaceous, 

 with the club black. 



Var. Rh. flavicornis. Steph. Catal. I. c. No. 1965.— With the antennae entirely 

 pale testaceous, the club somewhat fuscescent. 



Found occasionally at Coorabe and Darenth Woods, on the 

 birch and willoAV, in May and June. " Near Swansea." — L. W. 

 Dillwyn, Esq. 



Genus CCCXLVII. — Deporaijs, Leach. 



Antennae not geniculated, 1 1 -jointed, the two basal joints short, robust, subglobosej 

 the third joint elongate, slender, the five following shorter, obconic, the re- 

 mainder forming an elongate, acuminated club. Rostrum deflexed, short, 

 straight, dilated at the apex: head elongate, large, a little narrowed behind: eyes 

 globose: thorax rather narrow in front, the sides dilated beyond the middle; 

 the base and apex truncate : elytra elongate-subcylindric, each rounded at the 

 apex and a little gaping, leaving the pygidium exposed : legs rather slender : 

 femora slightly incrassated, the posterior in the male very robust : tihicE un- 

 armed. 



The males of Deporaiis are readily known from the other straight 

 horned Curculionidse, by the very stout posterior femora, and both 

 sexes by having the antennse differently constructed from those of 

 Rhynchites, the basal joints|being stouter and more robust, the 



