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Length, S 6|-6|, $ H-^ mm.; breadth, 6 3^-3^, $ 2|-3 

 mm. 



Bombay: Surat. Uxited Provinces : Allahabad. 



Type c? ill the British Museum. 



Pascoe described only the S • In spite of their very different 

 appeai'ance I can liave very httle doubt that the females here 

 described are referable to his species. 



223. Cyrtozemia cognata, sp, uov. 



Closely allied to C. cllspar, but differing as follows : — 



(5 . Head punctured in wrinkles, the forehead flattened and not 

 impressed, the eyes slightly more prominent. Antenna', with the 

 emarginations of the second joint of the club very shallow and 

 roumled. Prothorax not transversely impressed in front and with 

 a trace of a central carina. Elytra more shiny and more sparsely 

 clothed with pubescence on the disk, the lateral stripe of scaling 

 more dense and better defined, almost confined to interval 9, Leys 

 with the hind tibiae much less strongly curved, the inner edge of the 

 apical third forming only a wide obtuse angle with the main axis of 

 the tibia, the inner apical angle forming only a small right-angled 

 projection instead of a large rounded lobe; the inner surface of 

 the tibia similarly flattened, but finely granulate on both edges. 



Lenyth, 5-5^ mm. ; breadth, 2-2| mm. 



Bombay : Baroda. 



Type 6 in the Indian Museum. 



Genus OTIORRHYNCHUS. 



Otiorhynchus, Germar, Ins. Spec. Nov. 1824, p. .343; Lacordaiie, 



Gen. Col. vi, 186-3, p._155. 

 Stomodes, Schonlierr, Uisp. Meth. 1826, p. 188. — Tvpe, S. tulutariiis, 



Boh. 



Type, Otiorhynchus rhacusensis, Germ. (Europe). 



Head with the eyes shortly oval, moderately convex, longitu- 

 dinal or oblique. Rostrum at least as long as the head and 

 continuous with it, subporrect, the genae more or less dilated, tlie 

 apex more or less emarginate ; the scrobes subdorsal, deep and 

 visible from above in front, gradually vanishing behind ; mandibles 

 not prominent, with a distinct scar; mentum entirelv filling the 

 buccal cavity, the submeutum without any peduncle. Antenna' 

 inserted at or near the apex, generally long and slender; the 

 scape gradually clavate and reaching the prothorax ; the funicle 

 with the two basal joints more elongate, 3-7 short, obconical or 

 bead-like, the club variable. Prothorax convex, rounded at the 

 sides, truncate at the base and apex. Scutellmn absent or very 

 small. Elytra oblong-oval or subelliptical, convex, with 10, 12 

 or 13 striae, shallowdy siiuiate at base, without any humeral 

 callus, the lateral margin not or scarcely sinuate above the hind 

 coxae. Sternum with the front coxae slightly nearer the anterior 



