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appear to be somewhat abraded. It is manifest however that 

 the whitish pubescence clothes the head and pronotum somewhat 

 evenly. On the elytra the pubescence is interrupted by small 

 patches of darker colour showing (in the examples before me) 

 the derm, but I suspect that in a fresh specimen the dark spots 

 are clothed with pubescence of the colour of the derm, — as I find 

 some indication of such pubescence on some of the spots. 



xynotropis (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). 

 Caput transversum planum ; rostrum transversum planum cum 

 capite omnino continuum, ad basin quam caput haud 

 angustius, scrobibus foveiformibus obtectis ; antennae sat 

 graciles, prothoracis basin attingentes, articulis basalibus 2 

 quam sequentes paullo robustiores (2° longiori), 2° 3° que 

 inter se longitudine aequalibus, 3° — 5° gradatim brevioribus, 

 6° — go moniliformibus, 9° — 11° clavam sat compactam 

 formantibus, 9° 10° que inter se sat aequalibus fortiter 

 transversis, 11° subgloboso ; oculi modici, fortiter convexi, 

 sat fortiter granulati ; prothorax transversus sat aequalis, 

 fortiter convexum, antice super caput fortiter anguste pro- 

 minens, carina ante-basali bene defmita arcuata retrorsum 

 convexa in lateribus vix perspicue producta ; scutellum 

 parvum ; elytra fortiter convexa, sequalia, sat breviter 

 ovalia, punctulato-striata ; coxae anticae inter se bene 

 separatee ; pedes modici, inter se sat aequales ; tarsi breves 

 articulo basali (tarsorum anticorum vix, posticorum mani- 

 feste) quam 2 US longiori, 3° in 2° inserto ; unguiculi subtus 

 dente acuto armati ; metasteruum brevissimum ; pygidium 

 manifestum sat latum ; corpus supra obscure metal licum, 

 pilis elongatis adpressis maculatim ornatum. 



The shape of the insect for which I found this genus (with its 

 strongly convex oval elytra, somewhat suggesting the thought of 

 Otiorhynchus) together with the metallic gloss of its surface, 

 renders it very easy of identification. In Lacordaire's classifica- 

 tion it falls into the " G roupe " Tropiderides by virtue of the 

 following characters : — Antennae inserted in the sides of the 

 rostrum, ante-basal carina of pronotum present, rostrum short 

 fiat, and at base not narrower than the head, rostral scrobes 

 foveiform, eyes entire, sides of rostrum sub-parallel. Its struc- 

 tural characters seem to place it near Tropideres, from which it 

 differs by, inter alia, its general build and extremely short 

 metasternum which is not longer on its middle line than the 

 shortest of the ventral segments. The metasternum is moderately 

 short in Tropideres, but not nearly so short as in this genus. 



X. micans, sp. nov. Ovalis ; sat nitida ; supra picea, obscure 

 aureo- et cupreo-micans ; maculatim albido - pubescens ; 



