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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
3. Anthribidae, a type so thoroughly distinct from the Bruchidae, that 
I wonder at their having been united by some authors* ** 
4. Attelabidae, as I have here above proposed their modification : 
these really are the most connected with the Curculionidae. 
The remaining Rhynchophori of Latreille (Curculionides, Sch.) show 
only three more large types :— 
5. Curculionidae, containing all the Schonherrian Gonatoceri, 
except 
6. Rhynchophoridae, or Calandridae, and 
7. Cossonidae. 
These really are the only constitutive types round which the rare and 
slight aberrations might easily gravitate, and in adding to these 
the Bostrichidae, as already proposed, and the Mycteridae and Rhinosi- 
midae, leading again to the Attelabidae (and so conveniently linking the 
Malacodermous Heteromera), we might perhaps be led to a classification 
of this important section of Coleoptera nearer to the natural one, if we 
ever chance to meet with it. 
Genus APODERUS, Oliv. 
Subgenus I. TRACHELOPHORUS, Jekel. 
Adumlratio : caput valde elongato-conicum, basi in stipite collar! 
(praeter collum basalem in thorace semi-immersum) in $ longo, in $ 
hrevi, interdum sub-nullo, plus minusve evidenter transversim strigoso, 
prolongatum. 
Rostrum pro ratione lougum et tenue, in $ longius. 
Antennae in $ propius apicem ; in ? medio rostri sitae, pro ratione 
sexus valde elongatae, articulis plus minusve elongatis; clava plus 
minusve elongata, angusta, subcylindrica, articulo ultimo in 5 acuto, in 
$ plus minusve elongato et apice hamato-incurvo. 
Thorax magis conicus et elongatus, anterius profundius constrictus, 
* Ludwig Redtenbacher (‘ Fauna Austriaca: die Kafer,’2nd edition, 
Wien. 1857 —58, pp. 669—678) goes still further; he joins to the 
Bruchidae and Anthribidae Diodyrhynchus and Rhinomacer, forming for 
these the family Bruchides, in opposition to his Curculionides. 
