160 ME. F. P. PASCOE ON TnE CURCULIONIDiE. 



connected to the funicle that I was led to describe the latter as 

 being six-jointed. 



Demenica com press a. D. anguste ovata, nigra, squamis viridulis 

 griseisque ubique tecta; rostro in medio anguste carinulato, sulco 

 transverse fere obsoleto ; funiculo articulo secundo quam prime lon- 

 giore ; prothorace subcylindrieo, squamis majoribus interjectis ; scu- 

 tello rotundato ; elytris valde compressis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 squamis magnis griseis sat dense instructis, aliis parvis aureo-viridibus 

 intermixtis. Long. 4-5 lin. (rest. incl.). 

 Hab. West Africa. 



Betoch^ta. 

 (Otiorhynchinse.) 

 JEpisomo affinis, scd scapo lougiorc, valido ; fxmiculo articulis ulti- 

 mis valde transversis, clava crassioribus ; episterna motathoracis 

 distincta ; et processu intercoxali late truncato. 

 In regard to the iatercoxal process, Lacordaire is in error, I 

 think, in his description; in all the species (about twenty) 

 that I have examined it is more or less pointed anteriorly. 

 The genus, which is like Syntaphocerus in habit, is composed 

 of three very distinct species : in the first two the eyes are 

 very prominent ; in all the scape is unusually stout, impinging 

 considerably on the prothorax, and, as well as the funicle, tlie 

 legs are furnished with numerous stiff elongate scales ; the tibiae 

 at the apex have two rows of stout black setae. 



Bryoch^ta sufflata. (PI. VI. fig. 7.) -B. ovato-ampliata, nigra, 

 dense opalescenti-griseo-squamosa; capite inter oculos longitudinaliter 

 suleato ; rostro in medio fortiter excavato, squamis suberectis densis- 

 sime vestito ; antennis griseis, funiculo saturatiore ; prothorace 

 transverse, subcyhndrico, rude vage punctate; elytris subglobosis^ 

 striato-punctatis, striis nudis nitidis, inter puncta granuliformibus, 

 interstitiis cenvexis ; corpore infra viridi-lavato. Long. 6 lin. 



Hab. Old Calabar. 



BRYOCHiETA viRiDis. B. ovata, nigra, squamis concoloribus viridi- 

 busque dense vestita ; capite inter oculos sulco abbreviate ; rostro 

 in medio modice excavato, squamis concoloribus arete adpressis ; an- 

 tennis nigris; prothorace longitudine baud latiore, subcylindrieo, 

 remote punctate, margine basali viridi-squamose ; elytris obovatis, 

 striato-punctatis, striis nudis nitidis, inter puncta granuliformibus, 

 marginibus intcrstitiorum squamis viridi-metallicis eruatis, postice 

 et ad latera totis viridi-squamosis ; corpore infra dense vuidi-squa- 

 moso ; pedibus roseo-squamosis. Long. 65 lin. 



Hab. Old Calabar. 



