FAMILY CURCULIONIDAH 



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ATMliTONVCHUS. 



Atmetonychus peregrinus, Oliv, 



Kefeken-ce.— Oliv. Ent. v, 83, p. ^2.^, t. 24, f. 349 : Stebbing, Jlypomcccs sp. Iiid. Mus. 



Notes, vi, I, 68 (1903). 



Habitat— Katha, Burma. Also reported from Bengal. 

 Trees Attacked.— Mango {Mangifcra indica), Peach {Pniiius pcrsica), 

 Plum [Pniiiiis coiiiiiiiinis). Katha, Upper Burma (J. Messer). 



Beetle.— A largish stout black weevil. Proboscis broad, with a longitudinal dorsal 

 channel and scattered white hairs anteriorly ; eyes prominent, black, placed rather far 



back on either side ; prothorax triangular, truncate, twice as wide 

 Description. i^-hind as in front, corrugate, with a longitudinal median dorsal 



channel anteriorly. Uorsally the prothorax is flattened, this flattening continuing on to 

 the elytra basally. Latter with basal margin crescent-shaped, constricted apically, striate- 

 punctate. Legs black, tarsi yellowish brown. Under-surface black. $ larger than (5. Length, 

 14 mm. to 16 mm. 



Specimens of this weevil were first sent to me b\' the late Mr. J. 



Messer, of the Indian Forest Service, in April 1902, 

 Life History. who reported that the weevils were destructive to 



fruit-trees and ornamental trees in Katha in Upper 

 Burma. Mr. Messer wrote : " The beetle is particularly destructive in Katha 

 this year, though I have observed it for years past. It attacks fruit-trees, 

 especially peach, plum, and mango (most of all), and is not averse to certain 

 ornamental shrubs in the gardens here. It eats the leaves, leaving only the 

 midrib, and devours the flowering shoots wholesale, leaving only the bare 

 stems. The damage seems to be done only by the imagoes, and I have seen 

 nothing yet of larvae or pupae." In reply to a request for further informa- 

 tion Mr. Messer wrote in March of the following year that the insect was just 

 commencing to appear numerously again upon the fruit-trees in his garden. 



Dereodus. 

 Dereodus pollinosus, Redt. 



Reference. — Redt. Huge!, Kasch. iv, 2, p. 72. 



Habitat.— J ubal, North - West Himalaya. Also 

 reported from the Sulieman Range. 



Tree Attacked.— Ber (Zizyphiis jujuba). Piuntra, 

 J ubal State. 



Beetle.— Elongate, body rather thick ; ^ smaller than $. 

 Mottled-greyish or black in colour, the greyish colouring on living 

 beetles due to a purulescence. Head trun- 

 Description. cate in front, antennae placed near upper 



end, a longitudinal median channel down 

 front bifurcating into several offshoots near upper end ; sparsely Dereodus pollijiosus, 

 punctate. Prothorax widest behind, anterior margin straight, de- Redt. 



pressed on disk, corrugate and finely punctate. Scutellum small. North- West Himalaya. 



Fig. 268. 



