244 CURCULIONIU.E. 



TJpperside colouring grey instead of brown. 



Head with the eye smaller, its length about equal to the 

 distance between its hind margin and tlie prothorax ; the dark 

 brown band not extending so far above tlie eye. liostrum with a 

 distinct impressed line running obliquely downwards from the 

 eye. Antennce with the scape shorter, and broader at the apex, 

 the scaling pale grey and the setae white. Prothorax with the 

 sides strongly rounded in the middle, distinctly constricted at 

 the base, which is scarcely broader than the apex. Scutellvm 

 invisible. Elt/tra more parallel-sided, with the dorsal outline 

 much steeper behind, the apices jointly rounded, the striae deeper 

 and with the punctures less evident, the intervals 3 to 7 witli 

 their outer edges distinctly angulate. 



Length, 12| mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



BUEMA : Minbu {T. Bainbrigge Fletcher). 



Type 6 in the British Museum, 



214. Episomiis arrogans, Boh. (fig. 66, p). 



Episomus arroyuns, Boheman,* Schonh. Gen. Cure. Tii,pt. 1, 1843, 



p. 90 ; Faust, Hor. Soc. Eut. Ross, xxxi, 1897, p. 198. 

 Episonnis cataleums, Chevrolat,* Rev. Mens. Ent. 1883, p. 77. 



Colour of upper side light brown, the prothorax with two 

 broad, dark longitudinal stripes, the elytra with intervals 5, 6 

 and 7 dark brown throughout ; sides of head and thorax white, 

 of elytra grey or yellowish, except close to the base, where they 

 are \\hite. 



Head with a shallow transverse impression on vertex, forehead 

 with a broad deep central furrov\-. liostrum as long as broad, 

 evidently dilated at apex, the two costae only faintly impressed. 

 Antenna', with dense pale scaling ; the funicle with joint 1 longer 

 and broader than 2, 3 slightly longer than 4, 7 cylindrical, longer 

 and thinner than the club. Protlioracv as long as broad, subcylin- 

 drical, the basal margin truncate ; upper surface rugose, the central 

 furrow shallow. Sciitellum very small, coloux'ed like the suture. 

 Elytra ovate, jointly sinuate at the base, without humeral angles ; 

 tlie longitudinal curvature flat, highest in the middle ; upper 

 surface not impressed transversely near base, the three juxta- 

 sutural sulci narrow and shallow, the outer ones broader and 

 deeper, the suture roundly costate on the declivity, 2, 3 and 4 

 broad and plane throughout, 5 and 6 narro\^- and subcariuate. Legs 

 with dense light bro^^•u scaling, the posterior pairs of femora with 

 the basal two-thirds dark brown ; the hind tibiae of the cJ with 

 a narrow stria along the inner edge, with a sharp black tooth 

 beyond middle and a smaller one on each side of it (sometimes 

 they are all absent). 



cJ with the anal segment with a broad longitudinal furrow ; 

 2 with the apex of the elytra more sharply produced. 

 Length, 13|-16| mm. ; breadth, 6|-8 mm. 



