464 Mil. F. V. PASCOE ON THE CUIICULIONIU^. 



dium tuberculata, albo-squamosis, plagis quatuor atris ornatis ; cor- 

 pore infra albido, abdomine nigro-vario ; femoribus tibiisque albidis, 

 genibus tarsisque nigris, his valde dilatatis. Long. 4 lin. 

 Ilab. Dammaraland. 



This species and tlie next have unusually dilated tarsi, and 

 may be considered to form a fourth section of the genus ; the 

 three others would be represented by truncatus, BeicJiei, and 

 deformis, respectively. 



Synthocus adustus. S. fere ut in specie prfEcedente, sed elytris 

 postice magis rotundatis, costis dorsalibus crassioribus, tubereulis 

 costarum lateralium minoribus, excavatione prothoracis niulto an- 

 gustiore ; squamulis silaceo-griseis ; prothorace elytrisque supra, spa- 

 tio longitudinali mediano excepto, fuscis; pedibus, femorum basi 

 exccpta, totis fuscis j abdomine fusco, maculis griseis latcralitcr 

 notato. Long. 4 lin. 

 Hub. N'Gami. 



These characters separate, very decidedly, this species from the 

 last ; the difference, owing to the coloration, is yet more marked 

 to the eye. 



Atenistes* longirostris. a. niger, subopacus, supra pilis ra- 

 rioribus albidis clongatis dispersus ; rostro tenui, recto, corpore lon- 

 giore, nitido, impunctato, apicera versus dilatatiore; mandibulis 

 ponectis, nigris ; prothorace oblongo utrinque rotundato, basi tubu- 

 lato, seriebus duabus punctorum transversim sitis, supra punctis 

 rarissimis fere obsoletis notato ; scutello parvo, oblongo ; elytris elon- 

 gato-ovatis, pone medium sensim angustioribus, subtiliter seriatim 

 punctatis, ajjice conjunctim rotundatis; infra ])edibusque nigris, 

 nitidis, glaberrimis ; femoribus muticis ; antennis piceis, scapo ocu- 

 lum baud attingente. Long. 5 lin., rost. 6^ lin. 

 Hah. Brazil. 



ToxopTiorus hrenthoidesf, as described by M. Buquet, differs 

 from the above, inter alia, in its glossiness, its very globose 

 prothorax marked at the base with a transverse fold, and its toothed 

 anterior femora. It is possibly identical with Schonherr's T. 

 Gronovii %, a species not seen by that author, and named frona 

 Gronovius's description only. The following species agrees with 

 A. attenuatus, Fab. {Lixus), in having the apices of the elytra 

 * This genus was first named Toxophorus by Schonherr, who, finding the 

 name preoccupied, afterwards changed it to Toxeiites ; but this name had been 

 used by Mr. Newman three years before for a genus of longicorns. I now 

 propose the above. 



t Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. p. 146. 

 \ Gen. et Spec. Curcul. iii. p. 373. 



