44 cuKCULioxiD.i:. 



Hah. Bengal (Mus. Hope)." 



The type should be in the Oxford Museum, but has not yet 

 been traced. There is no satisfactory evidence that the genus 

 Stropliosonms occurs in India, and I have therefore tentative]}' 

 assigned this species to Blositrodes. The carina on the forehead 

 distinguislies it from all the known members of the genus, but in 

 all other res[)ects it appears to be extremely like B. quaclrinodosus, 

 Jek. 



Group II. NAUPACTIDES. 



Only a single Indian genus, Cratopus, Scbh., falls within this 

 group. Lacordaire placed it among his Cyphides, but seeing that 

 the corbels ot the hind tibias are not enclosed, it appears to be 

 more satisfactorily ])laced in the Naupactides. The species of 

 this group are mainly American, but a few genera occur also in 

 Europe and Africa. 



Genus CRATOPUS. 



Cratopus, Schoiiberr, Disp. Metb. l8iM), p. I'lO ; id., Lien. Cure, ii, 

 1834, p. 46; Lacovdaire, Gen. Cul. vi, 1863, p. 123. 



Type, Cratopus trianr/ularis, Gyl. (Mauritius). 



Head exserted, the eyes sublateral and longitudinal. Itostrum 

 continuous with and shorter than the head, moderately stout, 

 almost parallel-sided, the dorsal edges rounded, the apical margin 

 shallowly sinuate ; the scrobes broad and deep, strongly curved 

 downwards or passing obliquely below the eyes, lateral, but the 

 lower edge often visible from above ; mandibles with a distinct 

 scar, the mentum usually supported on a very short peduncle and 

 concealing the maxillse (Indian species), but occasionally the 

 peduncle is longer and the maxillse are more or less fully exposed. 

 Antenna' slender ; the scape gradually clavate, reaching or exceed- 

 ing the posterior margin of the eye; the funicle with joints 3-7 

 comparatively short, the articulations of the club well marked. 

 Prothorax transverse, strongly narrowed in front, truncate at base 

 and apex, the apical margin slightly oblique at the sides, without 

 lobes or vibrissse. ScuteUum distinct, variable. Elytra of variable 

 form, not very broad at the shoulders, \\'hich are rounded or 

 sloping, the base truncate or jointly sinuate, with 10 or 12 striae ; 

 wings present. Sternum with the front coxse nearer the anterior 

 margin of the prosternum ; mesosternum with the epimeron only 

 slightly smaller than the episternum and separating it from the 

 elytra at the base ; metasternum longer than the middle coxa^, 

 the episternum narrow but with a broad head, the hind coxae not 

 touching the elytra. Venter with the intercoxal process broad and 

 ogi\al ; segment 2 longer than 3 and 4 together and separated 

 from 1 by a very strongly curved stria. Le</s of variable length ; 

 the front pair longer and stouter than the others, with femora 

 much thicker and armed with a single tooth below : all the tibife 



