COLEOPTERA. 
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Nacerdes nigrifrons, sp. n., Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« s4r. viii. p. 817, 
and N. fovetcoUis, sp. n., Fairm. ibid., Madagascar. 
Salpingus coquerelii, sp. n., Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 818, and 8. sculpttlis, sp. n., 
Fairm. I c. p. 819, Simon’s Bay. 
Asclera cincrascens, sp. n., Pandelld, Mat. pour la Faune des Ool. de Fr. 
p. 182, Hautes-Pyr^nees. 
CURCULI0NIDA5. 
Otiorhynchides. Seicllitz lias subjected the true Otiorliyn- 
ebidcs to a monograpliic revision (Bcrl. ent. Zcitschr. 1868, 
Jlcilieft) . He remarks that the character derived from the free 
or united condition of the claws is not sufficient for the esta- 
blishment of groups, and therefore combines Lacordaire’s groups 
Peritelides, TrachyphlcsideSy and Laparocerides, separated on 
account of their united claws, with the Otiorhynchides s. str., 
as follows (/. c. p. 1) : — 
Cdeiithetides, Lao. 
Oosomides, Lac. 
EpisomideSj Lac. 
Eustylides^ Lac. 
II. Corbulse of post, tibiae open. 
A. Metasternum very short, intercoxal part parallel, more or less broad ; 
wings 0 Otiorhytichides, s. str, 
B. Metasternum elongate, intercoxal part narrow, generally oval ; winged. 
Phyllohiides, Lac. 
The group of true Otiorhynchides, as thus laid down by Seidlitz, is divided 
by him into two great sections, in one of which the scrobes are entirely su- 
perior, or furnished above with laterally projecting lobes {pterygia), whilst 
in the second the scrobes are entirely lateral. The 36 genera accepted by 
Seidlitz are tabulated by him in accordance with this mode of arrangement , 
as follows {1. c. pp. 2-4) : — 
I. Scrobes entirely superior or divaricated by pterygia (Section I.). 
A. Margin of thorax behind eyes ciliated. 
1. Hyphantus (Germ.). 
B. Margin of thorax not ciliated 
1. Funiculus G-join ted 2. Agraphus (Sch.). 
2. Funiculus 7-jointed. 
a. An elevated keel on each side above the eye. 
3. Oalyptops (Sch.). 
Corbulse of post, tibiae cavernous, wings usually 0 
b. No supraocular keel. 
Rostrum round and narrow. 
a. Suture between segments 1 and 2 of abdomen straight. 
4. Phlyctinus (Sch.). 
/3. Suture between segments 1 and 2 angulated. 
5. Merimnetes (Sch.). 
t Rostrum angular, thicker. 
a. Anterior coxa3 distant .... 6 . Asceparnus (Sch.). 
/3. Anterior coxae not distant. 
' a. Rostrum separated from forehead by a transverse furrow ; 
body scaled above; abdominal segment 2 usually 
straight in front. 
