SYMPIEZOMIAS. 



165 



edge, but ceasing before the apex, a similar stripe on intervals 5 

 and G, eucroaehing a little on 4 and 7 at tlie base, and a narrower 

 white stripe along the suture from tlie base to the declivity. 



Head with very fine shallow punctation. Rostrum finely ))unc- 

 tate, not impressed dorsally and with a very short centraf furrow. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long, the sides very slightly rounded 

 and broadly constricted at the apex, finely coriaceous above and 

 with a faint central stria from the base to beyond tlie middle. 

 Elytra rather narrowly ovate, the humeral fold slight and not 

 forming a prominent tubercle, the apices separately and sharply 

 mucronate, deeply punctato-striate, the intervals rather narrow 

 and slightly convex, with short white setse on the declivity, which 

 is distinctly impressed. 



Length, 51-8 mm. ; breadth, 2-31 mm. 



Madras: Pondicherry (Perrotet). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



124. Sympiezomias acutipennis, Boh. 



Brachyaspisfes acutipennis, Boheman,* Schijnh. Geu. Cure, viii, 

 pt. 2, 1845, p. 415. 



Colour black, with chalky-white scaling (usually more or less 

 tinged with yellow at the sides) which is sparse on the disk, but 

 much denser laterally and beneath. 



Bead finely coriaceous and with scattered coarse punctures, the 

 forehead without a central stria. Rostrum about as long as the 



Fig. 51. — Sympic-omias acutipennis, Boli. 



width at the base, shallowly impressed above, coarsely punctate 

 and with a deep short central furrow. Prothorax broader tlian 

 long in the $ , slightly longer than broad in the S , obliquely 

 truncate laterally at the apex, sides slightly rounded, broadest 

 about the middle, rather strongly constricted at the apex, the 

 upper surface finely sculptured, with the shallow confluent punc- 

 tation usually hidden by the scaling and without any central 



