Rhinospathe

This genus includes two elongate, robust, subfusiform, winged, polished, black insects nearly related to Exophthalmus. They have the rostrum broad, widened anteriorly, bicarinate above, and also with a transverse inter-antennal ridge, the scrobes obliquely descending, the antennæ inserted near the apex; the eyes large; the scutellum transverse; the elytra with two abbreviated supplementary striæ towards the apex externally, the outer striæ entire, the humeri (in the type) obtuse in ♀ and dentiform in front in ♂, the apical declivity densely villose or squamose; the tibiæ more or less sulcate externally, the posterior pair with the glabrous articular surface large and cavernous; the tarsi broad.