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MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CUBCULION ID^. 



Mitre phorus albifrons. M. oblongus, cylindricus, fuscus, dense 

 griseo-squamosus ; capite antice niveo-squamoso ; antennis subtes- 

 taceis ; prothorace apice ultra caput vix producto, squamis elongatis 

 sparse adspersis, in medio fasciculis duobus fuscis instructo ; scu- 

 tello concolori ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis alternis elevatis, 

 squamis erectis uniseriatim munitis ; pedibus rufo-brunneis, dense 

 squamosis, squamis erectis interjectis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Brazil. 



M. Waterhousei, the only other species, is a larger insect, and 

 covered with a very dense greyish crust. 



Perichitjs. 



Rostrum robustum, reticulato-punctatum, punctis squamigeris, 

 apice paulo dilatatum ; scrobes subterminales, laterales. Scopus 

 compressus, oculum attingens ; funiculus 1-articulatus, art. 

 primo longiore, secundo breviusculo ; clava anguste ovata, ad- 

 nata. Oculi grosse granulati. Protliorax amplus, supra con- 

 vexus, antice tubulatus, lobis ocularibus angustis. Scutellum 

 nullum. Elytra late ovata, convexa, humeris obsoletis. Pedes 

 modice elongati ; femora sublinearia, mutica ; tibia flexuosae, 

 sequilatse ; tarsi uiediocres, art. tertio late bilobo. Mima pec- 

 toralis pone coxas anticas limitata, apice cavernosa*. PJpi- 

 sterna metathoracis obtecta. Abdomen normale j sutura prima 

 arcuato-angulata. 



Allied to the South-American genus Tylodes, Schon. (and in 

 habit like T. tuberculatus) , but differentiated by the scrobes, 

 sculpture of the rostrum, and form of the tibiae. 



Perichius verrucosus. (PI. VIII. fig. .9.) P. ovatus, niger, om- 

 nino sat dense ochraceo-squamosus, supra granulis nitidis setigeris 

 dispersis ; rostro capite duplo longiore, fusco opaco, ad latera den- 

 sius squamoso, apice paulo spatulato ; antennis ferrugineis, funiculo 

 haud pubescente, parce setoso, art. quinque ultimis subquadratis, 

 clava art. basali cseteris conjunctim longiore; prothorace inaequali, 

 antice fortiter tubulato, utrinque ampliato-rotundato, basi angustiore, 

 parte anteriore haud granulato sed squamis elongatis sat dense ves- 

 tito ; elytris prothorace basi haud latioribus, deinde paulo am- 

 pliatis, utrinque rotundatis, supra seriatim subfoveatis, interstitiis 

 granulatis, alternis interrupte elevatis, apice rotundatis ; pedibus sat 

 dense setosulis. Long. h\ lin. 



Hab. Waigiou. 



* This term is intended to include that form of the pectoral canal in which 

 the apex is covered by the raised margin of the mesosternum, whether the margin 

 be vaulted or semicircular — the converse of when it is exposed (aperta). 



