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A remarkable form, on account of the prolongation of the 

 elytra as in some of the Brenthidce. The only example I have 

 seen was kindly presented to me by Mr. E. Sheppard, and be- 

 longed to the late Mr. Curtis. There was no locality named ; but 

 the colour of the bit of paper attached, in the old slovenly way, 

 appeared to indicate that it was from South America ; its re- 

 semblance, however, to Hylobius aphya leaves very little doubt 

 in my mind that it is from India. 



Ectinura brenthoides. (PI. VII. fig. 10.) E. angusta, piceo- 

 fusca, subnitida, squamis dispersis silaceis vestita ; capite inter oculos 

 depresso ; rostro prothorace cum capite parum longiore, basi con- 

 fertim punctate- ; antennis fuscis, nitidis ; prothorace utrinque leviter 

 rotundato, antice paulo angustiore, crebre impresso-punctato, punctis 

 singulis squama flava munito ; scutello triangulari, nitido ; elytris 

 prothorace paulo latioribus, hunieris rotundatis, supra leviter at sat 

 vage punctatis, punctis squamigeris, interstitiis squamis minoribus 

 parcius dispersis, pone medium squamis majusculis condensatis (circa 

 sex) maculam parvam formantibus ; corpore infra pedibusque disperse 

 squamosis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hob. India? 



SCOLITHUS. 



(Hylobiinae.) 



Rostrum validum, modice elongatum, parum arcuatum, utrinque 

 stria dimidiata ante oculum impressum; scrobes prseruedianaB, 

 obliquse, infra oculos longe exeuntes. Scopus breviusculus ; 

 funiculus 7-ai ticulatus, art. brevibus, quinque ultimis trans- 

 versis ; clava brevis, adnata, quadriarticulata. Oculi grosse 

 granulati, transversi, laterales. Protlwrax oblongus, basi bi- 

 sinuatus, lobis ocularibus distinctis. JElytra oblongo-ovata, 

 versus apicem callosa. Pedes validi ; femora in medio incras- 

 sata, subtus dentata ; tibia compressse, flexuosse, apice intus 

 uncinatse ; corbulce posticse elongatss ; tarsi infra spongiosi, art. 

 basali modice elongato, tertio late bilobo, quarto elongato ; un- 

 guiculi liberi. Propectus antice emarginatum. Abdomen seg- 

 mento secundo mediocri. 



The club of the antennae is four-jointed in this genus, while in 

 in Aclees, to which it is allied, it is only two-jointed ; it is further 

 distinguished from that genus by its ocular lobes, emargination 

 of the propectus, and direction of the scrobes, The latter cha- 

 racter distinguishes it from Hylobius. 



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