202 CURCULIONIU^. 



constricted at the base, the sides subparallel in the middle, broader 

 in the 2 , the punctures in tlie strite rather shallow, the nitervals 

 slightly convex, the alternate ones a little more raised, the setae 

 short and erect. Legs black, the hind tibire very strongly curved 

 in the 6 , normal in the $ ; the front coxa? separated in both 

 sexes, the intermediate coxje of the S produced into a flattened 

 tubercular process. 



Lengtli, j Tg-S^, $ 7-74 mm.; breadth, o 3, 5 3| mm. 



Kashmir {von Hiigel — type). Uxited Provinces : Mussoorie, 

 7000 ft. (Ltfroi/); Dehra Dun {OUendorf) ; Mandali, 9000 ft., 

 Jaiinsar division, Dehra Dun (Ind. Mus.) ; Bargai'kote, 8000 ft., 

 Kumaon {Tytler — Ind. Mus.); Painsur, above Lohba, 800l> ft., 

 Garhvval {Tytler ~\ni\. Mus.). 



Ty2)e J in the Vienna Museum ; also the type of C. ohscnrus. Kedt. 



There can be no doubt that^ (Jneorliinvs ohscvrus is merely the 

 2 of >S'. (/lobiiUcoIlls. 



Genus ACHL^NOMUS. 



Achlamo7m(s, Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) ii, 1853, p. 178; 

 Jjacordaire, Gen. Col. vi, 1803, p. 138. 



Gexotype, AcJilainomns ehenimis, Waterh. 



Agrees with Pachynotus, Redt., except in the following par- 

 ticulars : — 



Antenna' with joint 7 of the funicle scarcely longer than G 

 and not subconical. Elytra with the basal mai'gin not elevated, 

 truncate or slightly sinuate. Stermim with the side-pieces of 

 the mesosternuni fused together and without distinct sutures. 

 Leys with the corbels of the hind tibite entirely open. 



liam/e. JN'. India. 



Lacordaire excluded this genus from his Tanymecides and 

 associated it with Psalidium because in the type specimen of 

 A. eheninus. which he examined, the thoracic vibrissa? were absent ; 

 but in fresher specimens these setae are quite distinct, and in other 

 I'espects the species is obviously very closely allied to Pachynotus 

 glohulicoUis, Eedt. 



172. Achlsenomus ebeninus, Waterh. 



AchUtinomits eheninus, Waterliouse,* Ti-ans. Ent. Soc. (2) ii. 18.53, 

 p. 179. 



Colour shining black, the elytra thinly covered with minute 

 grey scales and with numerous fine erect setae which are much 

 longer in the ])osterior half ; head and thorax without scaling. 



Head with close fine punctation, the rostral furrow scarcely 

 encroaching on the forehead. Rostrum a little dilated at the 

 apex, almost plane above, with fine rather confluent punctation 

 and a deep central furrow. Antennce ferruginous, the funicle with 

 joint 2 equal to or very slightly longer than 1, the remaining 

 joints about as long as broad. Prothorax about as long as broad, 

 with the sides strongly rounded in the S i l*^ss so in the $ . 



