140 CURCULIOXID-i:. 



Length, ^ 7-10|, $ 7|-12| mm. ; breadth, S 2^-4, $ ^-^ 

 mm. 



Widely distributed in India, Burma, Siam, and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Type in the Copenhagen University Museum ; type of rutilans 

 at Paris. 



This species has been observed to attack tea plants in Assam 

 and also to defoliate mulberry bushes in liangoon (Ind. Mus. 

 Notes, iv, 1899, p. 184). 



100. Astycus oculatus. Heller. 



Asttjcophilus oculatus, Heller,* Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1908, p. 126. 



Colour black, the elytra and sides of the prothorax with thin 

 green scaling and more or less covered with a bright yellow 

 powdering, the elytra with a bare lateral patch behind t-he middle. 



Bead granulato-punctate, forehead striolate, with a deep eei]- 

 ti'al furrow ascending the vertex ; eyes broadly oval, prominent. 

 Rostrum a little longer than broad, slightly broader towards the 

 apex, plane above, with a broad central furrow and on each side two 

 tine lateral oarinse enclosing a longitudinal impression. Antennae 

 black, the funicle with joint 2 evidently longer than 1, 3 and 4 

 equal, 7 transverse. Prothorax a little longer than broad, its sides 

 strongly rounded, almost globular in some examples of the J , 

 broadest about the middle, constricted at both base and apex, the 

 latter narrower tliau the former, finely and closely granulate, 

 usually with a faint and mtich abbreviated central stria. Scutelluni 

 almost circular. Elytra parallel-sided from the shoulders to 

 beyond the middle, rounded behind, the apices scarcely mucronate, 

 deeply sulcate, the sulci containing rows of small granules which 

 sometimes a])pear like little transverse carinae, the intervals rather 

 narrow, costate and granulate; the setse short and subdepressed, 

 not forming an apical fringe. Legs black, with short pale setse ; 

 the tibiae not sulcate, the posterior pair produced internally at the 

 apex and with the corbels shghtly ascending the dorsal edge; the 

 front coxfe contiguous. 



Anal segment of the 2 broadly impressed on each side and 

 simply rounded. 



Length, S 7-12^, $ 61-11^ mm.; breadth, S 2|-4j, $ 2|- 

 5 mm. 



Madras : Ouchterlony Valley, 3000-3500 ft., jS'ilgiris {H. L. 

 Andreives) ; Kanara {T. R. D. Bell) ; Malabar ; Sidapur, 3.500 ft., 

 Coorg. 



Types (f 9 ii the Dresden Museum. 



In addition to its great variability in the matter of size, this 

 species varies in the shape of the prothorax of the cT . In the 

 smallest specimens the prothorax entirely resembles that of the $ , 

 but in the larger examples its sides are much more rounded, and 

 it becomes almost globular in shape, thus giving the insect a very 

 ■different appearance. 



