250 CURCULIONIDvE. 



with the scape gently curved, gradually clavate, punctate and with 

 rather tliin scaling ; the funicle with joint 1 stouter and somewhat 

 shorter than 2, and 3 slightly longer than 4, 4 to 7 about as long 

 as broad and bead-like. Protliorcuv as long as broad, the sides 

 I'ounded, broadest well before the middle, the base truncate and 

 about as broad as the apex ; the upper surface very uneven, with 

 an indistinct central furrow and a shallow curved ti-ansverse im- 

 pression before the middle ; portions of the ridges bare of scaling. 

 Elytra narrowly ovate ( d ), broadest before the middle, the basal 

 margin with a low sinuate elevation on each side, the apices jointly 

 rounded ; the upper surface with rather uneven rows of coarse 

 jmnctures, and shallow punctate striae along the sides, the dorsal 

 outline flat, the posterior declivity rather steep; interval 1 with 

 three large asymmetrical tubercles at the top of the declivity ; in- 

 terval 3 with five tubercles, of which four are small and one near 

 the declivity is larger ; interval 5 with four oi* tive small tubercles; 

 each of these tubercles is crowned with a bunch of broad scale-like 

 sette. Legs long and slender, with rather thin brown scaling, the 

 femora with an ill-defined pale ring at the thickest part ; the tibiae 

 with long raised scale-like setjc, the front pair with a row of 6 or 7 

 sharp spine-like bristles along the apical half of the inner edge. 



Length, 5| mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Sikkim: ivalapokhi, OOOO ft., Xepal Frontier (H. Stevens). 



Tijpe rj in the British Museum. 



T have seen only the type of this striking species. 



Group II. NOTIIOGN AT HIDES. 



This group comprises onl}' the following new and somewhat 

 aberrant genus. 



Genus NOTHOGNATHUS, nov. 

 Type, Nothognathus scJioutedeni, sp. nov. 



Head exserted, transverse, the eyes comparatively small and 

 lateral. Rostrum, continuous \^ ith the head and rather longer 

 than it, shallowly emarginate at the apex ; the scrobes entirely 

 dorsal, foveiform, converging dorsally, the space between them of 

 about halt the width of the forehead ; the mandibles not promi- 

 nent, the deciduous appendages usually retained ; the mentum 

 circular and entirely filling the posterior cavity, the submentum 

 w ithout any peduncle. Antennce inserted near the apex of the 

 rostrum, the scape strongly curved backwards and reaching or 

 slightly exceeding the front margin of the thorax ; the funicle 

 7-jointed, the two basal joints more elongate, 1 longer than 2, 3-7 

 subequal, transverse and closely set ; the club very little broader 

 than the funicle, short and sharply ticuminate. Frotliorax with 

 the basal margin bisinuate, the posterior angles acutely prominent, 

 the anterior margin obliquely truncate laterally and witliout ocular 



