112 cuECULIO^'ID.l:. 



Genus ATMETONYCHUS. 



Atmetonychus, Schimherr, Gen. Cure, vi, pt. 1, 1840, p. 214 ; 

 Tiacordaire, Gen. Col. vi, 1863, p. 8.5. 



TsPE, Carculio perer/rinus, Oliv. 



Head with tlie foreliead projecting laterally above the eyes, 

 which are lateral and very prominent. Bostriini continuous with 

 and about twice as long as the head, plane above, angulate laterally, 

 triangularly emarginate at the apex; the scrobes deep, gently 

 curved, passing below the eye and there becoming wider and 

 shallower ; mandibles not prominent, with a distinct scar ; the 

 mentum large, quite filling the cavity, the submentum with no 

 peduncle. Antmnce with the scape short, stout, gradually clavate 

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

 a little longer than the rest, 1 longer than 2, 3-7 subequal, trans- 

 verse and closely set, the club 4-jointed and sharply acuminate. 

 Proihoracc bisinuate at the base, vertically truncate at the apex, 

 the gular margin not sinuate. Scutellum small. Elytra sub- 

 truncate at the base, much broader than the prothorax at the 

 shoulders, which are roundly rectangular, and gradually narrowing 

 from there to the apex, with 10 shallow sulci, the margins broadly 

 sinuate above the hind coxae, tiie posterior declivity sloping gra- 

 dually. Stermim. with the front coxae in the middle of the pro- 

 sternum ; mesosternum with the epimera large, almost as long as 

 the episterna ; metasternum louger than the median coxae, the 

 episterna distinct and fairly broad, the hind coxae not reaching 

 the elytra. Venter wuth the intercoxal process rounded and 

 not broader than the coxae, segment 2 longer than 3+4 and 

 separated from 1 by a curved incision. Legsy/iVa the hind femora 

 not clavate, the median and front pairs moderately so ; the tibite 

 almost straight, the front pairs produced internally at the apex, 

 the hind pair with the corbels open and ascending the dorsal edge 

 for a short distance ; the tarsi rather narrow, joint 2 triangular 

 and longer than broad, 3 not or but slightly broader than 2, 

 4 elongate and with a single long claw. 

 Range. Northern India. 



78. Atmetonychus peregrinus, Oliv. 



Curculio peregrinits, Olivier, Eutom. v, 83, 1807, p. 324, pi. 24. 



f. 349. 

 Qireulio rugosus, Wiedemann,* Germ. Mag-, iv, 1821, p. 155. 

 Aiifemerus peregrinus, Gyllenhal, Schciuh. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834. 



p. 75. 

 Atmetonychus inmjualis, lioheman,* Schonh. Gen. Cure, vi, pt. 1, 



1840, p. 214. 



Colour black, with uniform grey or brownish scaling, the under- 

 parts paler. 



Head very transverse, constricted behind the eye, the forehead 

 with a deep central furrow and a broad shallow one on each side 



