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CUBCULIONID^. 



82. Dereodus denticollis, Boh. 



Dereodus denticollis, Boliemaii,* Sclionb. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834, p. 73. 



Colour black, with grey scaling, baviug a lilac flush on the 

 upperside, the prothorax with three narrow indistinct yellowish 

 stripes. 



Head convex, shallowly punctate and wrinkled, with a broad 

 deep central furrow ascending to the vertex ; eyes large, oval and 

 only slightly convex. Rostrum a little broader than long, slightly 

 narrowed from the base to the apex, the upper surface with a 

 broad deep central furrow and a deep curved impression on each 

 side of it, in front of which is a short oblique impression, the 

 ante-ocular space with a longitudinal impression. Antennce short 

 and stout, joint 1 of the funicle longer than 2, 3-6 equal and 

 transverse, 7 more strongly transverse. Prothorax broader than 



Fig. 40. — Dereodus denticollis, Bob. 



long, its sides subparallel from the base to well beyond the middle, 

 then slightly narrowed to the apex, the basal margin strongly 

 bisinuate, the apical margin with a sharp tooth of varying length 

 projecting forward below the level of the eye ; the upper surface 

 coarsely and confluently punctate, with a shallow central furrow 

 and a deep bisinuate transverse impression behind the middle. 

 Elytra with the sides parallel from the shoulders to beyond the 

 middle in the $ , gradually acuminate from the shoulders in the 

 cJ , the apices with a short mucro, the striaj with large deep 

 punctures, the intervals not broader than the striae and almost 

 plane ; the scaling dense, the setfe short and subdepressed. 



Length, 9-12 mm.; breadth, 3-|-5 mm. 



Bengal : Barkul, Orissa (F. H. Gravely — Ind. Mus.). Madras : 

 Pondichei'ry (Perrotet, Maindron) ; Salem {G. R. Butt — Pusa 

 Coll.) ; Madras (Cajyt. W. Patton). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



