38 CUBCULIONID.i;. 



7. Blosyrus unisulcatus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, AAitli sparse grey scaling. 



Head plane, with only a single shallow central furrow, the 

 eyes not very prominent. Rostrum separated from the head 

 by a straight furrow, dilated from the base to the apex in 

 the d" , parallel-sided in the $ , shallowly impressed above 

 and with a fine central carina. Antenna; with the scape nearly 

 reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the funicle with 

 joint 1 longer than 2. Protliorax slightly broader than long, 

 the sides strongly rounded in front, broadest not far from 

 the apex which is not narrower than the base, set with 

 irregular low granules and with a transverse impression before 

 the middle. Elytra subglobose, subtruncate at the base, the 

 shoulders rounded, broadest before the middle, M'ith shallow sulci 

 containing large subreticulate punctures, the intervals narrow 

 and rather uneven, with variable scattered small tubercles and 

 granules, interval 3 sometimes with a rather prominent rounded 

 tubercle behind the middle, the setfe stout and erect, the inflexed 

 margins bare and shiny. 



Length, 4-5 mm. ; breadth, 2:|-3^ mm. 



Bombay: Bombay (Fontanier) \ JN". Kanara (T. E. D. BcU); 

 Louda, Belgaum (II. V. Kemhall). ]\Jadras : Nilgiri Hills (//. L, 

 Andreives) ; Coorg {L. Neivcome). 



Types (S $ in the British Museum. 



Boheman has recorded Blosyrus hystrix. Boh., as occurring in 

 India (8chonh. Gen. Cure, i, 1833, p. o.o3), but as I have seen no 

 specimens except the type in the Stockholm Museum, which 

 is labelled " Canton," it seems probable that this record was 

 an error. 



Genus BLOSYRODES. 



Blosyrodes, Jekel, Col. Jekel. 1875, p. 157. 

 Type, Blosyrodes quadrinodosus, Jek. 



This genus is extremely close to Blosyrus, Schonh., and the 

 following are the only characters by which I am able to dis- 

 criminate it : — The scape when folded back in a position of rest 

 exceeds the posterior margin of the eye ; the second joint of the 

 funicle is always a little longer than the first ; the side-pieces of 

 the meso- and meta-sternum are soldered together and without 

 definite sutures, except that sometimes the episternal suture of 

 the metasternum is visible in its anterior half. 



The head is never so deeply furrowed as in most species o£ 

 Blosyrtis, the legs are more slender, and the external edge of the 

 hind corbels is never inclined inwards. 



Range. N.E. India and Burma. 



Blosyrus unisulcatus, Mshl., is an intermediate form, the 



