FAMILY CURCULIONIDAE 405 



and all joints set with a tine pubescence. Second alxlominal ventral segment wider than the 

 succeeding ones, and separated from the first by a suture, which is arched in the middle. 

 Length, 6 mm. to 7 mm. Insect winged and flies well. 



This weevil was found feeding upon the leaves of and defoliating Acacia 



catechu near Poona at the beginning of August igoi. 



Life History. The insect apparently only attacks the young green 



leaflets, which are half unfolded at this period. The 



beetle did not appear to be pairing, and consequently the attack had 



possibly only just commenced. At the time of my inspection the damage 



done was but small. 



In June igog specimens of this insect were forwarded to me at Dehra 

 Dun from the District Forest Officer, Nellore, Madras, with the information 

 that the weevil had been defoliating Acacia auricula that month in the 

 district. The beetles were found in one of the casuarina plantations of the 

 coast range of the division. 



As I have described, this Myllocerus in its adult stage does a certain 



Relations to the amount of defoliation. Further than this, nothing 



Forest. appears to be known about the weevil. When and 



where it lays its eggs, where the larva lives, on what 



It feeds, and the time spent in the larval stage, have yet to be observed. 



Also the number of generations in the year, and how the cold weather is 



passed. 



Cyrtepistomus, gen. nov. 



Reference.— Marshall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. (p. i8b) 1913. 



The following new species is placed by Marshall in this new genus, 

 which he states to be closely allied to Cyphicerus, Schh. The type of the 

 genus is Phyllobius jucundus, Redt., and in addition to the type Marshall 

 refers the following described species to this genus :— Cyphicerus dcprccahilis, 

 Fst. ; Cori-;ctus ^racilicornis, Fst. ; Corigetus necopinus, Fst. ; and Corigetus 

 tcstatus, Fst. This genus is so far known to occur in India, Burma, and 

 China. 



Cyrtepistomus pannosus, Marshall, sp. nov. 



References.— Marshall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. (p. 187) 1913; Cyphicerus sp. Stebbing, Depart. 



Notes, i, 186 (1903). 



Habitat. — Berar and Central Provinces. 



Tree Attacked.—Teak iTectonagrandis). Melghat Forest, Berar; Damoh, 

 Jubbulpore, Central Provinces. 



Beetle.— $ Cieneral colour brown, with blackish head and thorax. Insect co\ered more 



or less with short stiff hairs. Head with the eyes lateral and almost flat, forehead very 



broad with a deep short central stria. Rostrum about as long as its 



Description. basal width, narrowed from base to beyond middle, thence dilated ; the 



two carinae flanking the dorsal area slightly diverging behind and 



with a longitudinal furrow adjoining each externally, the dorsal area plane and with a central 



carina lying in a furrow. Antennae inserted near top ; scrobes short and deep. The 



