54 



CURCULIONIB.E. 



bare patches, with the suture and alternate intervals slightly 

 raised, and 3 broader than 4 throughout its length. Legs similar. 



Length, 7|-10| mm. ; breadth, 3|-5^ mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills {Doherty — type). Sikkim : Muiigphu 

 {Atkinson) ; Lebong, 5000 ft. {H. M. Lefroy—'Pixsn Coll.). 



Tg/ie in the British Museum. 



Judging by the pointed anal segment all the seven specimens I 

 have seen are probably females. 



23. Dermatoxenus helleri, sp. uov. 



Colour black, with uniform pale green (type), grey or sandy 

 scaling. 



Head with the basal constriction and impi*ession shallow, the 

 eyes rather elongate and a little nearer to the front margin than 

 to the constriction, the forehead with a narrow furrow. Rostrum 

 separated from the head by a fine furrow on each side, the furrows 

 usually separated on the disk, but sometimes meeting to foi-m a 

 slight angle, the gense broadly but bluntly angulated, the upper 

 surface with a broad shallow longitudinal impression. Antennce 



Fig. 18. — BcniKitoxenuii helleri, Mshl. 



comparatively slender, with pale green or grey scaling, the scape 

 just reaching the eye, the funicle with joint 1 a little shorter 

 than 2, joints 3-7 subequal and not transverse, the club black 

 and with joint 1 longer than 2. Frothorax about as long as 

 broad, the sides subparallel from the base to beyond the middle, 

 then rather sharply narrowed in the $ , less sharply in the J , 

 the upper surface more or less uneven and rugose, with a faint 

 central carina and often a shallow impression on each side of it, 

 and with scattered small black punctures. Elytra jointly sinuate in 

 the middle of the base, the shoulders obtuse and not very promi- 

 nent, the sides slightly rounded, broadest at or behind the middle, 

 the striae broad and with large deep punctures, but so tilled 

 in with the scaling that the striae appear narrow and the punctures 



