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they, like the rest of the surface, are densely elothed with tomentum, and 
show a more or less distinct circular mark between the four elevations. 
Legs yellowish and not very distinctly spotted. 
Two individuals have been sent to me by Captain Broun. I do not know 
their sex. 
Obs. I. This species seems to agree very well with the characters 
assigned by Lacordaire to the genus Cratoparis, except that it has the 
rostrum decidedly contracted at its base. 
Obs. II. The two individuals before me are very different in the colour 
of their clothing, though they agree exactly in other respects, 
Anthribus huttoni, n. sp. 
A. capite rostrato, oculis prominulis, cinereo-griseo-fuscoque tomen- 
tosus; antennis femoribusque piceis, tibiis tarsisque rufescenti- 
bus: prothorace conico, angulis posterioribus acutis, carina basi sub- 
coniigua. Long. corp. 4} m.m. 
Body clothed with grey, ashy, and fuscous hair-like seales, which form 
on the elytra an indistinct tessellated pattern. Antenne dark red or pitchy, 
either shorter than the length of the insect, or nearly reaching that length ; 
they are moderately stout ; second joint about equal in length to the first, 
rather more slender than it; third joint longer than any of the others : 
eighth joint similar in shape to the seventh, and but little shorter than it; 
ninth almost triangular, becoming gradually. broader from its base to its 
extremity ; the three apical joints form a rather broad, flattened club, of 
variable length. Head in front of the eyes with a broad flat rostrum, which 
is a little dilated towards the extremity, its front edge being scarcely emar- 
ginate; the antennal cavities are near the apex of the rostrum, rather 
widely separated from the eye ; they are foveiform, being slightly prolonged 
towards one another on the under face of the rostrum ; the eyes are large 
and prominent, not emarginate, their front part eneroaching a little on the 
front of the rostrum. Thorax only about half as broad at its front margin 
as at its base, its carina very close to the elytra (but not applied to them) 
in front of the seuttellum, then gently sinuate on each side so as to form the 
hind angle of the thorax, which is acute and extends quite as far outwards 
as the shoulder of the elytra; the lateral portion of the carina forms the 
-lateral margin of the hind portion of the thorax, and does not extend quite 
so far forwards as half the length of the thorax. The elytra are very 
convex transversely, and so densely clothed that their sculpture is quite 
obscured. The legs are long and slender, and the basal joint of the tarsi is 
as long as the three following together. 
In the male the antenne are variable in length, but are generally longer 
and stouter than in the female; in this latter sex also they appear to be 
