HYPOMECES. 



ii: 



impression on each side of it and a sharp lateral carina. Protlwrax 

 broadest at the base, much narrower at the apex, the sides almost 

 straight, the posterior angles acute, the anterior angles produced 

 into a short sharp tooth behind the eye ; the upper surface un- 

 evenly depressed in the middle, with a variable central furrow and 

 a more or less distinct curved transverse impression behind the 

 middle. Eli/tra sinuate in the middle of the base, broadest at the 

 slioulders and gradually narrowing behind, the shoulders rounded 

 and rather sloping, the apices scarcely dehiscent, the punctation 



Hi/pomeces sr/uamosKs, F., (^ . 



of the striae rather variable, the intervals broad and plane, the d 

 with long tine erect pubescence, the 5 w ith short subdepressed setae. 



LeugiJi, 10|-13 mm. : breadth, -i^-di mm, 



Burma; Siam; Cambodia; Malay States; Sumatra; Java: 

 PniLippixES; Chixa. 



Ti/pe in the Copenhagen University Museum, also that of ^juZ- 

 mrulentus ; the types of Herbst and Olivier are apparently lost ; 

 those oi fahrlcii, auricephalus and dispar are at Dresden. 



^ Faust assumed that in describing squamosus Fabricius had before 

 him the form in which the anterior angles of the prothorax are 

 not prominent, but an examinatioii of the type shows it to be of 

 quite the same form as fabric ii, Fst. 



The name ^nt?i'(?/-H/(?/i<?w, F., may be applied to specimens exhi- 

 biting a grey oi- pearly coloration ; pulvifjer, orientalis and dispar 

 being practically synonymous \\ith it. Coppery examples may 

 bear the name auridenfus, Hbst. ; while auricephalus, Fst., applies 

 to green specimens in which the head and rostrum are coppery red. 



81. Hypomeces unicolor, Web. 



Curculio tmicolor, Weber, Observ. Eut. 1801, p. 95; Fabricius* 



Syst.El. ii, 1801,p. 511. 

 Curculio rusttciis, Weber, 1. c. ; Fabricius,* op. cit. p. 510. 



It is with some doubt that, in accordance with the opinion of 



