110 CURCULTOXID.T. 



very short, with the scape reaching ouly the middle of the eye, 

 the funicle with joint 1 much longer than 2. Prothorax a little 

 longer than broad, its sides subparallel from the base to about the 

 middle, then gradually narrowed to the apex, with distinct con- 

 fluent punctation and without any central carina. Elytra not 

 acuminate behind, the sides subparallel to beyond the middle, the 

 apices jointly excised, finely punctato-striate, the stria? not deeper 

 apically, the posterior callus present ; the scaling fairly dense, the 

 seta? short and subdepressed. Legs black, with grey scaling varie- 

 gated with darker spots, the tibiae not denticulate internally. 



Length., 7-7| mm.; breadth, 3 mm. 



Bekgal : Pusa {Lefroy). 



Type 5 in the British Museum. 



Genus ANEMEROIDES, nov. 



Type, Anemeroides crinaceus, sp. nov. 



Head with the forehead ]3rojecting slightly over the eyes, which 

 are entirely lateral and moderately convex. Rostrum much longer 

 than the head and continuous with it, the base narrower than the 

 forehead, the upper surface plane, the margins angulated, the apex 

 not emarginate ; the scrobes lateral, deep, narrow and curving 

 downwards at some distance in front of the eye ; mandibles and 

 mentum as in Atmetonychiis, but the latter more depressed. 

 AntenncE with the scape slender at the base, rapidly clavate and 

 just reaching the eye ; the funicle with the two basal joints 

 slightly longer than the following and subequal, 3-6 equal, trans- 

 verse and closely set, 7 much longer, subconical and attached to 

 the club, which is short and broadly ovate. Prothorax truncate 

 at the base and ai)ex, the gular margin distinctly sinuate. Scutel- 

 lum small. Elytra with tlie basal margin jointly sinuate and with 

 a retlexed edge, much broader than the prothorax at the shoul- 

 ders, with 10 striaj, the posterior declivity gradually sloping, the 

 lateral margin shallowly sinuate above the hirul coxae. /Sternum 

 with the front coxoe nearer the anterior edge of the prosternum ; 

 mesosternum with the epimera nearly as large as the episterna, 

 the median coxae unusually far apart, the intercoxal piece almost 

 as broad as the coxae; metasternum much longer than the median 

 coxae, the episterna distinct, the hind coxae reaching the edge 

 of the elytra. Venter with the intercoxal piece truncate and 

 broader than the coxae, segment 2 mvich longer than 3 and 4 and 

 separated from 1 by a deeply sinuate incision, 5 with a large cen- 

 tral tubercle (? ^ only). Legs slender, the femora feebly clavate ; 

 the tibiae almost straight, the anterior pairs produced inwardly at 

 the apex, the hind pair with the corbels enclosed and not ascend- 

 ing the dorsal edge ; tarsi naiTOw, joint 3 scarcely broader than 

 2, 4 elongate and with two large free claws. 



Range. India. 



