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BryocHjETA pusilla. B. ovata, picea, dense fuseo-squamosa ; ca- 

 pite inter oculos baud sulcato ; rostro angustiore, supra planato ; pro- 

 thorace transverso, utrinque paulo rotundato ; elytris subcordatis, 

 striatis, impunctatis, interstitiis vix convexis, squamis majusculis 

 erectis remote munitis, regione suturali fasciaque ante medium griseis ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque dense griseo-squamosis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. West Africa. 



EUPIONA. 



(Otiorhynch inae . ) 

 Eryochceta congruit, sedfiiniculo tenuato, filiformi, et clam ovata, 

 normali. 



The only exponent of this genus has precisely the habit of Bryo- 

 cliwtasufflata ; but from this it is essentially differentiated by the 

 normal form of the antennae. * 



Eupiona attalica. E. ovata, nigra, squamis roseo-griseis omnino, 

 elytris viridulis exceptis, tecta ; capite rostroque in medio longitudi- 

 naliter excavatis, sulco transverso abbreviato; prothoraee subcylin- 

 drico, transverso ; elytris subglobosis, seriatim punctatis, punctis ob- 

 longis approximatis, glabris, nigris, interstitiis squamis viridi-aureis 

 micantibus lineatim instructis ; antennis pedibusque vage nigro-setu- 

 losis. Long. 4 lin. (rost. inch). 



Hab. Old Calabar. 



Aftinia. 

 ( tiorhy nchinse. ) 



Ab Bpisomo differt scrobibus profundis, nudis, infra oculos incli- 

 natis, scapo prothoracem haud attingente. 



In Episomus the scrobes are confined, so to say, to nearly the 

 point of origin of the antennae, or are marked behind by a gene- * 

 rally broad shallow impression, which entirely disappears in front 

 and before attaining the eye, and is invariably closely covered by 

 scales of the same character as the rest of the rostrum. The de- 

 scription of this part is not very satisfactory either in Schonherr 

 or Lacordaire. The scape in Episomus impinges more or less on 

 the prothorax j but here it passes only just within the anterior 

 border of the eye. 



Antinia kupleura. (PI. VI. fig. 3.) A. oblongo-ovata, nigra, 

 omnino dense isabellino-squamosa opalino-lavata, setisque numerosis 

 interjecta; oculis subrotundatis ; capite per strigam transversam a 

 rostro distincto, fronte longitudinaliter sulcato, pone oculos transversim 

 excavato ; rostro supra longitudinaliter excavato, plaga triangulari an- 

 tice excisa ; antennis squamosis, funiculo art. secundo pri'mo paulo Ion- 



