2o2 CUECULIONID^. 



sides subparallel from the base to the middle, tlien strongly nar- 

 rowed to the apex, which is slightly constricted, the upper surface 

 finely and closely aciculate beneath the scaling and with a more 

 or less distinct central carina. Elytra broadest near the shoulders 

 and gradually narrowing behind, the intervals broad, plane and 

 smooth, finely aciculate beneath the scaling, and with scattered 

 short stout dejiressed setae which become larger, scale-like and 

 erect on the declivity. Legs with dense brownish-grey scaling and 

 stifi erect pale seta?. 



Leni/tJt, o|-7^ mm.; breadth, 2k-3k mm. 



N. ix-DiA (Bacon, Buvaucel). B'engal : Pusa (Pusa Coll.). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. 



221, Nothognathus varius, sp. nov. 



Colour piceous, with dense grey or brownish scaling, mottled 

 with irregular darker spots and ill-delined paler markings. 



Xearly allied in structure to JV. schoutedeni, but differing in its 

 much smaller size and the following particulars : — 



Bead with the forehead dilated laterally so as almost to conceal 

 the eyes from above, its width therefore greater than that of 

 the base of the rostrum. Rostrum proportionately shorter, the 

 mandibular appendages very small, simple, almost straight and 

 projecting outwardly. Protliorax with the sides widening from the 

 base to the middle and without any trace of a central carina. 



Lemjtli, 3-4^ mif . ; breadth, l|-2 mm. 



N. IjS'DIA (Bacon). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Group III. OTIOEEHYNCHIDES. 



This group contains only a few genera, but they are distributed 

 over the greater part of the world. The species are all wingless 

 and mostly dull-coloured, of medium or small size. The genus 

 Otiorrhynchus enters only the Palaearctic fringe of India ; over the 

 rest of India its place is taken hy Pi ochus, the species of which 

 will probably prove to be very numerous. 



Jiey to the Genera. 



1 (2) Piostruni separated t'rom the bead by 



an angulated stria ; ventral segments 



2, .3 and 4 subequal CyRT0ZEMiA,Pasc.,p.253. 



2 (]) Rostrum continuous with the head; 



second ventral segment equal to or 

 longer than the third and fouvtli 

 together. 



3 (4) Intercoxal process of first ventral seg- 



ment broadly truncate, broader than [p. 255. 



the liind cox'se Otiorrhynchus, Germ., 



4 (3) Intercoxal process rounded or angulate, 



narrower than the hind coxae Ptochus, Scbh., p. 259. 



