48 CURCULIONID^. 



deep, well defined and curving downwards towards the lower 

 margin of the eye ; the mandibles rather prominent, the scar 

 indistinct and consisting ol a narrow flattened space at the apex 

 of the mandible ; the mentuni large and filling the entire buccal 

 cayity behind the mandibles, the submentum Avith a short broad 

 peduncle. Antennce inserted before the middle, the scape only 

 slightly exceeding the antei-ior margin of the eye, the two basal 

 joints of the fuiiicle subequal and a little longer than the third, 

 which is longer than the rest, tlie club 3-jointed. Protliorax 

 rounded at the sides, the apex almost vertically truncate, the gular 

 margin not or shallowly sinuate, the base truncate or slightly 

 rounded. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra subtruncate or 

 jointly sinuate at the base, without shoulders, with 10 punctate 

 strijB or rows of punctures. Sternum with the anterior coxie 

 slightly nearer the anterior edge of the presternum; the meso- 

 sternum with tlie epimeron much smaller than the episternum and 

 separating it from the elytra at the base; themetasternum scarcely 

 as long as the intermediate coxse, its episternum well developed, 

 the posterior coxse reaching the elytra. Venter witli the inter- 

 coxal process very broad and ogival, segment 2 not or only slightly 

 longer than 3 or 4 and divided from 1 by a deep straight incision. 

 Leqs with the femora clavate and unarmed, the two front pairs of 

 tibise with a short internal apical mucro, the corbels of the hind 

 pair enclosed, the tarsi with the first joint strongly curved, 3 

 broader than the others, the fourth elongate, the claws connate 

 at the base, 



Eanfje. Central Asia and Northern India. 



18. Catapioniis basilicus, BoJi. 



Catapionus basilicus, Boheman,* Schouh. Gen. Cure, vi, pt. 2, 1842. 

 p. 247. 



Colour black, \\\i\\ uniform rather thin metallic green scaling 

 above and below. 



Head with deep scattered punctures and short erect pale setae, 

 the forehead with a deep central furrow. Rostrum with puiicta- 

 tion and setse as on the head, with a shallow central furrow- in the 

 basal half and a faint central carina anteriorly, the gense rather 

 sharply angulated, the ends of the apical emargination produced 

 in front to form two tubercle-like prominences. Antennce black, 

 with fine grey pubescence, the scape gradually clavate. Pro- 

 tliorax broader than long, ])roportionately larger in the 6 , the 

 sides rounded, broadest about the middle, the apex narrower than 

 the base and with a small median dorsal sinuation, the gular 

 margin straight, the upper surface with scattered deep punctures 

 which are larger and subconflueut towards the sides, and with a 

 variable shallow central furrow. Elytra broadly ovate and with 

 the sides strongly rounded in the $ , narrower in the J , «ith fine 

 shallow stride containing rows of large shallow punctures which 

 are broader than the strife, the intervals scarcely convex, closely 



