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and curved toward the apex, and having five raised lines in front ; 

 antennae ferruginous, scape much curved and extending to the 

 prothorax ; funicle with the six last joints equal ; prothorax 

 short, semicircular at the base, the side well rounded, the disk 

 covered with glossy approximate granules ; no scutellum ; elytra 

 oblong cordiform, moderately convex, the shoulders embracing 

 the base of the prothorax, seriate-punctate, the interstices un- 

 equal ; body beneath and legs pitchy ; femora unarmed ; basal 

 joint of the tarsi broadly cordate ; claws divergent. 



This species is remarkable for the semicircular base of the 

 prothorax and the corresponding sweep of the elytra ; other 

 species have the same tendency, but not to so great an extent, 



Balaninus beevikostris. 



B. fuscus, squamulis murinis sejunctim vestitus ; elytris albo notatis ; 

 rostro brevi, basi incrassato ; funiculo articulis tertio quartoque sequalibus. 

 Long. 2 Un. 



Sah. Landana. 



Dark brown, clothed with yellowish -grey approximate scales ; 

 elytra with two or three indefinite whitish bands behind the 

 middle ; rostrum longer than the prothorax, ferruginous, thicker 

 at the base ; antennae ferruginous ; third and fourth joints of the 

 funicle equal ; prothorax rather broader than long, slightly 

 ridged anteriorly ; scutellum oblong ; elytra narrowly striate- 

 punctate, interstices broad, flat ; legs ferruginous, femora acutely 

 toothed ; body beneath black, with scattered white scales. 



Not unlike our B. villosus, which, like most others in this cos- 

 mopolitan genus, has a perfectly filiform rostrum. From the 

 insertion of the antennae being behind the middle of the rostrum, 

 I believe the specimen here described to be a female ; in the 

 male the rostrum should be shorter, and the antennae inserted in 

 the middle. In some species the rostrum of the females is twice 

 as long as the body. 



TiMOLA. 

 Caput globosum ; rostrum filiforme ; scrobes medianae, laterales ; oculi 

 magni, ovati. Antennae scape oculum attingente ; funiculus elongatus ; 

 clava distincta. Prothorax transversus, basi subtruncatus. Elytra basi 

 prothorace latiora. Pygidium breve. Pedes mediocres ; femora in medio 

 incrassata, mutica ; tibiae rectse, inermes ; tarsi sequales, articulo penul- 

 timo late bilobo, ultimo parvoj unguiculi liberi. Abi^omen segmentis 

 tribus subaequalibus, suturis rectis. ^' 



The facies of the species constituting this ge> dly suggests 



