184 MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCULI0NID2E. 



funicle. Like some others of the genus, its claws are simply 

 united at the base and not appendiculate or divided. No two 

 Curculionids could be much more unlike than this and the last. 



GrLECHINUS. 



( Cryptorhy nchina?. ) 



Caput sphaericum ; rostrum breve, rectum, nudum ; scrobes praeme- 

 dianae, laterales, oculos attingentes. Scapus 7 -articulatus ; 

 articulis duobus basalibus longioribus, caeteris transversis, gra- 

 datim latioribus ; clava ovata, adnata. Oculi laterales, pro- 

 thorace liberi, grosse granulati. Prothorax subconicus, apice 

 tubulatus, haud productus, basi late emarginatus, angulis po- 

 sterioribus paulo productis. Scutellum triangulare. Elytra 

 subcylindrica, apice rotundata. Pedes breves ; femora incras- 

 sata, infra dente parvo instructa ; tibice compressae, fere rectae, 

 apice latiores, angulo interiore dentiformi, intermediae angulo 

 exteriore etiam producto, omnes unco mediocri armatae ; tarsi 

 normales. Coxce anticae distantes. Propectus solum modice 

 excavatum. Prosternum detectum. Mesosternum declive. Ab- 

 domen normale. 



This genus may be regarded as the representative in New Cale- 

 donia of the New Zealand Psepliolax. From that genus it is dif- 

 ferentiated, inter alia, by its straight scrobes and declivous meso- 

 sternum not covering the prosternum. The structure of the 

 intermediate tibiae is evidently a modification of that of Psepliolax. 



Glechinus talpa. G. elliptico-cylindricus, lsete fuscus, squamis 

 ochraceis maculatim ornatus ; rostro piceo, subtiliter punctata ; scapo 

 supra versus apicem lorige et dense ciliato, funiculo intus parcius ci- 

 liato ; clava articulis tribus ultimis valde pubescentibus ; prothorace 

 indistincte punctato, linea media plagisque duabus utrinque ochraceis ; 

 elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis convexis, maculis ochraceis irre- 

 gulariter adspersis ; corpore infra sat dense griseo-squamoso ; pedibus 

 squamis minusculis tectis, setulis numerosis interjectis. Long. 3£ lin. 



Hab. New Caledonia. 



Deretiosus. 



(Cryptorhynchinae.) 



Rostrum gracile, capite duplo longius, subarcuatum, dimidio api- 

 cali nudo ; scrobes praemedianap, infra rostrum cito euntes. 



