66 CURCULIONID.f:. 



Head with fine very shallow punctation, hidden by the scaling, 

 the forehead with a short deep central furrow. Rostrum gradually 

 dilated from base to apex, with a transverse impressed line just 

 in front of the eye, shallowly impressed towards the apex, plane 

 and with a deep central furrow in the basal half. Antennm 

 piceous, the funiele with the two basal joints subequal. Prothorax 

 as long as broad, the sides rounded, broader rather before the 



Fig. 21.— Scepticus kaslwiirensis, Mshl. 



middle, rugosely punctate above, but the sculpturing almost 

 hidden beneath the dense scaling, and with a shallow central 

 furrow from the base to near the apex. Elytra ovate, the striae 

 with large deep punctures which are partly hidden by the scaling, 

 the intervals broad and plane in the 2 » a good deal narrower 

 in the J , the setae short and depressed. 



Length, 6|-8 mm. ; breadth 3|-4 mm. 



Kashmir: {Col. Seathun — type); Sonamarg, 8G00 ft. {T. R. D. 

 Bell). 



Type (S in the British Museum. 



Genus ACEOCffiLOPUS, nov. 



Type, Acroccelopus cretaceus, sp. nov. 



Head with the eyes lateral and very convex, the forehead 

 narrower than the base of the rostrum. Rostrum longer than 

 broad, with a very shallow apical emargination ; the scrobes deep, 

 sublinear, deflected at some distance in front of the eyes and 

 visible from above at the apex ; the mandibles rather sharply 

 pointed at the apex, their inner edges simple, the mandibular scar 

 distinct ; the mentum large, the submentum not pedunculate. 

 Antennoi inserted before the middle of the rostrum, the scape 

 straight, gradually thickened to the apex and reaching the hind 

 margin of the eye ; the funiele with joint 1 longer than 2, the 

 remainder subequal and slightly transverse, the club ovate and 

 4-jointed. Prothorax as in Tanymecus. Scutellum small. Elytra 

 with a rounded humeral prominence, jointly and deeply sinuate at 

 the base, the external angles projecting forwards, punctato-striate. 



