258 



CURCULIONID^. 



Head Avith the vertex glabrous, the forehead coarsely punctate 

 and with a shallow central fovea. Eostrum slightly broader than 

 long, the sides diverging almost from tbe base, the gense broadly 

 and roundly prominent, the upper surface slightly convex, coarsely 

 punctate in w rinkles and without any carina-. Antennce ferru- 

 ginous ; the funiele with joints 6 and 7 strongly transverse. 

 Protliorax as long as broad, the sides strongly rounded, broadest 

 at the middle, the upper surface smooth, shiny and Avitli scattered 

 line punctures, tlie punctation much closer and coarser at the 



Fig. 79. — Otiorrhynchusnissicus, Stierl. 



sides, the set?? minute, scattered and depressed. Elytra oval, not 

 striate but with regular rows of small punctures, the intervals 

 almost glabrous and each with a single row of faint punctures 

 which bear short depressed sette. Legs ferruginous, the front tibiae 

 Hnely denticulate. 



Length, 4| mm. ,- breadth, 2| mm. 



Kashmir: Sirikol (Stoliczl-a). Eussia : Tschaar-Tascli, 

 11,000 ft. 



jType not traced. 



227. Otiorrhynchus striolaticeps, sp. nov. 



Colour shiny black, without pubescence, bat witli fine erect 

 setse. 



Head aciculate on the vertex, the forehead flattened and with 

 numerous fine longitudinal stria3, the eyes subdepressed. JRosti-um 

 about as long as broad, the sides strongly narrowed from the base 

 to beyond tlie middle, the gen^e less dilated than usual, the upper 

 surface with a broad and deep longitudinal impression bounded 

 on each side by a sharp carina and containing a distinct centj-ai 

 carina, the impression striolate at the base but ahnost glabrous in 



