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ME. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCULIONTDJ;!. 



ovato-acuminata. Oculi breviter ovales, verticales, grosse gra- 

 nulati. JProthorax cylindricus, basi apiceque truncatus. Elytra 

 breviter ovata, valde convexa, protborace basi haud latiora. 

 Pedes intermedii minores ; femora in medio incrassata, subtus 

 dentata ; tihice extus recta?, intus flexuosaa ; tarsi articulo 

 primo modice elongato, sublineari; unguiculi liberi; coxae po- 

 sticse approximate. Metasternum breve. Abdomen segmento 

 secundo ampliato. 



Agrees in most respects witb OtiorJiynchus, so far as that genus 

 with its 444 species can be characterized, but differing essentially 

 in the approximation of its posterior coxae, to which may be added 

 its curved scape thicker only at the tip, and the cylindrical 

 pro thorax. 



Psidiopsis filicornis. P. nigra, pube pallide grisea supra parce, 

 infra pedibusque magis dense vestita ; rostro supra tricarinato, inter- 

 stitiis basi planatis, apicera versus excavatis; antennis ferrugineis, 

 corpori longitudine fere sequalibus ; protborace paulo longiore quam 

 latiore, leviter punctulato ; scutello haud observando ; elytris striato- 

 punctatis, punctis rude impressis, interstitiis valde convexis, femoribus 

 infra dente acuto instructis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Amazons. 



Telenioa. 

 (Otiorhynchinae.) 

 Hosfrum mediocre, capite continuatum, in medio tenuius ; scrobes 

 subapicales, supernal, cavernosas, postice cito evanescentes. 

 Oculi rotundati, parum prominuli. Antennae elongatse ; scapus 

 rectus, ad marginem anteriorem prothoracis extendens ; funi- 

 culus articulis duobus basalibus longioribus, cseteris obconicis ; 

 clava distincta. Prothorax transversus, utrinque rotundatus, 

 basi truncatus. Scutellum nullum. Elytra ovata, humeris ob- 

 soletis. Pedes mediocres ; femora incrassata ; tibia intus fle- 

 xuosse ; tarsi normales ; unguiculi liberi, approximati. Abdo- 

 men segmentis 3-4 brevibus. 



In the Australian fauna this genus may be placed between 

 Merimnetes and Myllocerus ; it has the rostrum of the former, but 

 the free claws of the latter, from which it also differs in the straight 

 scape, as well as from all the Myllocerus forms in the absence of 

 the humeral angle. The second species here described has a very 

 short metasternum ; but I cannot find any other valid distinction 

 of generic importance. 



