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CUROULIONID^. 



the elytra in the S ; in the $ the prothorax has a very broad 

 denuded dorsal stripe, the sides being brown with a paler doi-sal 

 edging, the elytra brown, with an ill-defined variable pale patch 

 at the base of intervals 4-6, and a similar patch on the same 

 intervals behind the middle. 



Head finely and shallowly punctate, the forehead with a narrow 

 furrow scarcely ascending the vertex. Bostrum scarcely longer 

 than broad, its sides subparallel, plane above, with a deep central 

 furrow and a rather deep longitudinal impression on each side of 

 it, and no lateral carinse. Antenna' red-brown, tlie funicle with 

 joint 1 longer than 2. Prothonuv as long as broad in d' , slightly 

 broader in $ , the sides rounded, broadest about the middle, the 

 apex not much narrower than the base, with large coarse punctures 



Fig. 55. — Lcptomias angin^tatiis, Redt., S • 



on the disk, the punctures interspersed with granules laterally, 

 the central furrow narrow, deep and complete. Elytra sub- 

 truncate at the base, narrowly elongate in the 6 , much broader 

 in the $ , the sides slightly rounded, with a shallow basal con- 

 striction, the striae distinctly punctate, the intervals rather narrow, 

 the alternate ones more raised, the suture more elevated on the 

 declivity, the setse short and suberect. Ler/s black, the tarsi 

 reddish, the posterior tibise of the J simple. 



Length, S 6|-7i, $ 6^-81 mm.; breadth, d 2|-2|, $ 3-4 mm. 



Kashmir {von Hugel — type). United Provinces : Mussoorie, 

 7000 ft. (i/^/Voy— Pusa Coil.). 



Type S in the Vienna Museum ; also the type of O. pictus. 



I can have no hesitation in treating C. pictus as the $ of 

 L. angustafus, for, apart from the colouring, their only differ- 

 ences are obviously of a sexual character, and they have been 

 taken in the same locality. 



