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CURCULIOXID^. 



base, the shoulders forming a rounded obtuse angle, the sides sub- 

 parallel in the c? , broader and more rounded in the 5 , the strife 

 with rows o£ large rather shallow punctures, the suture and the 

 alternate intervals more raised, the sette sparse, very short, cui'ved 

 and subdepressed. Legs with dense green scaling, with orange 

 yellow setje at the apex of tlie tibi;ie, the second joint of the hind 

 tarsi longer than broad. 



Fig. 20.—EiisfaUda homfovdi, Fst. 



Lenc/th, S 7|, 9 Si mm. ; breadth, c^ 3, ? 4| mm. 



SiKKiM : Mungphu {E. T. Atkinson); iSandakphu, 12,000 ft., 

 Darjiling dist. (C. W. Beebe — Ind. Mus. ; H. Stevens) ; Kurseong 

 [Cardon). Bengal : Calcutta (Dr. Bomford — teste Faust). 



Type in the Dresden Museum ; type of E. cardoni not traced. 



The locality given by Faust for the type, namely, Calcutta, 

 appears to be dubious. 



Group V. TAXTMECIDES. 



This is the only grou]) of the BRACiiYDEEiNiE that is well 

 represented in the Indian fauna, and more genera and species 

 are known from this subregiou than from any equal area in 

 other parts of the world. Moreover, their numbers are likely to 

 be much increased when the beetles of the Himalayas have been 

 properly collected, for numerous localised species of the wingless 

 section, such as Le]itomias and its allies, :ire certain to be found 

 there. 



With one or two exceptions, the early stages are quite un- 

 known, and but little has been recorded as to the habits of the 

 adults of the Indian species, apart from a few Asti/cus and 

 Tam/mecus which are injurious to cultivated plants. 



