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work of Professor Lacordaire on tlie Rhyncliopliora, M. Jekel, as 
will have been seen from the preceding statements_, considers his 
classification susceptible of improvement ; and in some respects, 
especially the separation of the Brachycerides &c. from the true 
Curculionini, he seems to have made a step in the right direction. 
It will, however, require the lapse of years and the efibrts of 
many entomologists before the classification of the vast and com- 
plicated group of the Curculionidcs. can be placed on a satisfactory 
basis. 
Thomson {Skand. Coleoptera, tom. vii.) adopts the following 
classification of the Bliynclioplioriy which differs in some respects, 
especially in the removal of the Satpingidoi, from that given in 
his first volume. 
Stirps I. IsOTOMA. 
Abdomen with the segments immoveable, second and third subeqnal, 
pygidiiim usually exposed; nntennaB straight, 11-jointed; posterior coxm 
contiguous or imt very distant; claws usually bifid. 
Families : Brucliidce^ Anthrihidce ( Urodontides, Anth'ihideSf [ Choragxna, 
Brachytarsina) Antlixihind]) , Bhinomaceridcs^ Attelabidm \_Attclohina^ JRhyn- 
chitina.'] 
Stirps II. Anisotoma. 
Abdomen with the last three segments free, first two connate, second almost 
always much longer than third ; antennae most frequently geniculate and 
clavate; posterior femora generally greatly exceeding the margin of the 
elytra. 
Families t A^nonida^, OurcuUonidce {Ctircidionides [^Phyllohmia, OtiorhyW- 
cli{na\ Bliynclmnides \IIylohima, Phytonomina, Bayoina, Lixina, Erirhind, 
Cryixtorhyncliina, Pissodtna, Bfdanina, Corysmmerma, Ccuthor'hynchind, Bari- 
diim, Orchcstina, Cionina, Tychiina, Gymnetrina, Blkschina, Aniliommind^ 
Magdalmina]),Cossonidce\_Colandrinct, Cossonina], TomicidcB {Tqmicidcs [-H//'- 
lesinihiay Toxnicina, Scolytina], Platypodides). 
The following known species of this family are recorded as recently detected 
in Britain : — Apion ononidcs (Gyll.) by Sharp, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 119 
hohema'mii, according to Rye, Ent, Ann. p. 98) ; Sitones gressorius (Fab.) by 
Crotch, Entom. ii. p. 211 ; Coiliodes exiguus (Oliv.) by Crotch, 1. c. p. 261. 
Pascoe (Journ of Ent. ii.) describes the following new genera 
of Curculionidjc, upon the general classification of which he makes 
some observations. As he seems in most cases to be uncertain 
about the alliances of his proposed new genera, the Recorder has 
thought it safer to })laoe tliem altogether here than to attempt, 
from somewhat imp)erfect data, to refer them to their sub- 
families 
Atychoria, g. n., Pascoe, p. 415. Allied to MytJiites ; rostrum short, thick? 
l)ilobed above, deeply impressed at apex ; scrobes oblique, curved, attaining 
the eye ; antennm inserted near end of scrobes, short, scape gradually thick- 
ened, funiculus 6-jointed, club shortly ovate. Sp. A.funesta, sp. n., p. 416, 
pi. 17. fig. 22, from South Australia. 
