INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA 
COLEOPTERA. 
Fam. CURCULIONIDES. 
PART II. 
Div. ATTELABID^E. 
I think it convenient to unite here, under one and the same 
head, the following small divisions of Schonherr :—Attelabides, Rhino- 
macerides, Apionides, Tanaonides, Oxycorynides and Antliarhinides. 
These divisions are not important enough in their differential cha¬ 
racters, and some of them are really too limited in their number 
of species, to be raised to an equal rank with the two groups pre¬ 
viously reviewed. On the contrary, when united, they have such 
a number of characters in common, and they are so naturally bound 
together in their general constitution, that they perfectly answer the 
ideas of natural connexion indicated by the former authors who treated 
of them. Should they be deemed worthy of being kept separate, they 
should not, at least, be removed so far from one another, as Schonherr has 
done it for some of them, in introducing between them the Brenthidae, a 
group so strikingly different that an eminent entomologist* has of 
* Ludwig Imhoff, c Versuch einer Einfuhrung in das Studium der 
Koleoptern,’ Basel, 1856 ; a very interesting work containing a great 
number of entirely new views regarding the classification, many of 
which will probably throw a great light on the subject, though in some 
instances, the given characters intended to limit certain groups are 
rather the exception than the rule. 
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