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hairs, the middle subglabrous, shining, forming a subcircular denuded spot. 
Pectoral lamina of a transverse oblong-ovate form, longitudinally strigose 
at the sides and the posterior margin, punctate in the middle; rufous, 
shining, clothed like the pectus; external margin denuded, forming a cir¬ 
cular spot. Abdomen obsoletely longitudinally rugulose, pale rufous, 
shining, clothed with yellow pile, with denuded patches. 
Legs pale rufous; four anterior rather elongate, slender: thighs 
scarcely clavate: tibia somewhat incrassated towards the apex. Posterior 
long, thick: thighs reaching to the base of the terminal abdominal segment, 
clavate, edentate, concave beneath; above subconvex, transversely subob- 
liquely strigose: tibia one-fourth shorter than the thighs, dilated towards 
the apex, which is obliquely truncate; truncature extended outwards, where 
the acute angle is trispinose; the spines very short; armed within with two 
moveable spines ; the external nearly as long as the tibia, doubly curved; 
the interior half the length, slender; both obliquely directed, divergent: 
tarsi very long; 1st joint cylindric, somewhat curved, nearly as long as the 
tibia; 2nd also cylindric, half the length of the 1st; penultimate hardly 
broader than the preceding, small, shortly cordate, deeply emarginate; 
terminal nearly as long as the second. All the claws curved, diverging. 
Obs. —I have seen one specimen only of this curious species. 
Div. ANTHRIBIDiE, Sell. 
This division, though much more nearly connected than the preceding 
with the true Curculionidae, in the general shape of the body and the cha¬ 
racters of the rostrum and parts of the mouth, possesses, nevertheless, a 
number of characters so different and essential, that they ought to be raised 
to an equal rank with that division, and to form a special family. The old 
authors had indeed distinguished them, like the latter, from the typical 
group of this Schonherrian family. Although perhaps less numerous in 
species than the Bruchidae, they are rather extensive, and, like them, pro¬ 
portionally to their number, very few have been described. About 200 
