116 CURCULIONID.^. 



the apex truncate and with distinct post-ocular vibrissfe. Scutel- 

 lum distinct, triangular. Elytra oblong-oval, broader than the 

 thorax and with obtuse shoulders, with 10 punctate striai, the 

 lateral edge emargiuate near the base to receive the head of the 

 metasternal episternum and shallowly sinuate above the posterior- 

 coxae. Sternum with the front coxte nearer to the anterior margin 

 of the prosternum and with a large bifid tubercular prominence 

 behind the coxae ; the mesosternum with the epimera and episterna 

 of almost equal size ; the metasternum much longer than the 

 median coxa?, the episterna broad and distinct, the hind coxsb not 

 reaching the elytra. Venter with the intercoxal process broadly 

 rounded, segment 2 longer than 3 -|- 4, and divided from 1 by a 

 sinuate incision which is shallower in the middle. Legs with the 

 femora clavate ; the tibite almost straight, except the front pair 

 which are slightly bent in\^ards near the apex and have an internal 

 apical process, the hind pair with the corbels open and ascending 

 the dorsal edge for some distance ; the tarsi bi-oad, joint 4 elongate, 

 the claws strongly connate ; the trochanters with an isolated long 

 projecting bristle. 



Eaiir/f." Eastern India, Burma, China and the Malay Archipelago 

 as far as the Philippines and Timor. 



The only constant difference in the sexes is to be found in the 

 last ventral segment, which bears two short longitudinal sulci at 

 the base in the $ , that of the d being simple. In B. squamosus, 

 Y., and unicolor, Weber, the sexes are of nearly the same shape, 

 but the cJ is clothed with long fine erect pubescence, which is 

 lacking in the 5 . But in H. infatns, Chev., from Elores, both 

 sexes are pubescent, while the elytra of the 2 are much broader 

 than those of the c5~ . 



SO. Hypomeces squamosus, F. 



Curculio squamosus, Fabriciiis,* Ent. Syst. i, '2, 179i', p. 452. 



Curculio jndverulenlus, Fabricius,* I.e. 



Curculio pulvif/er, Herbst, Kaf. vi, 1795, i3. 480. 



Curculio auru'lentus, Herbst, op. cit. vii, 1797, p. 13, pi. 96, f. 6. 



Curculio orientalis, Olivier, Eutom. v, 83, 1807, p. 321_, pi. 6, f. 66. 



Hypomeces squamosus, Boheman, Schimb. Geu. Cure, ii, 1834, p. 71. 



Hypomeces fabricii, Faust,* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1892, p. 506 



(1893) (iK syn.). 

 Hypomeces auricephahis, Faust, I.e. (u. syn.). 

 Hypomeces fabricii, Faust, var. dispar, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. 



"Geneva, xxxiv, 1891, p. 184 (1895). 



Colour black, with uniform dense glittering metalHc green or 

 blue-green scaling, often suffused with orange powdering (typical 

 form); or else with the green scaling re[)laced by pale grey, 

 pearly, brownish or dull coppery scaling. 



Head plane on each side of the central furrow. Rostrum 

 gradually narrowed from base to apex, the upper surface plane, 

 wdth a broad and deep central furrow, a curved longitudinal 



