OXIOHIll£V>ClIUS. — PTOCHUS. 



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front. Antfiiiia; piceous, the termiuiil joints oi: the fuiiicle lougei* 

 than broad. Prothorax' broader than long, the sides moderately 

 rounded, broadest at the middle, the apical margin vertically 

 truncate at the sides, the upper surface with large close and deep 

 puuctures, and without any smooth centx'al space, the setae very 



Fig. 80. — Otiorrhynchus driolaficcps, Mslil. 



short but erect. Ehjtra oval, with shallow distinctly punctured 

 striae, the intervals entirely glabrous and shiny, with long fine erect 

 white setae. Legs black, with the last joint of the tarsi piceous, 

 the front tibiae not denticulate internally. 



Length, Sg-S^ mm. ; breadth, If-if mm. 



Kashmir : Sonamarg (2'. R. D. Bell). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus PTOCHUS. 



Ptochus, Schonherr, Disp. Metli. 1826, p. 187 j Lacordaire, Gen. 

 Col. vi, 1863, p. 188. 



Type, Ptochus porcellus, Boh. 



Head with the forehead generally broad, the eyes lateral or 

 subdorsal, more or less convex, liosirum very stout, longer than 

 the head and continuous with it, the base broader than the fore- 

 head, the apex with a triangular impression, the genae dilated or 

 not; the scrobes generally short, deep, apical and subdorsal, some- 

 times entirely dorsal ; the mandibles and mentum as in Otior- 

 rhi/nchvs. Antennce elongate, the scape curved at the base, 

 gradually clavate at the apex, reaching nearly to the middle of 

 the prothorax ; the f imicle variable. Prothorax variable in shape, 

 truncate at the base and apex, the gular margin not sinuate. 

 Scutelluni present or not. Elgtra generally truncate at the base, 

 of variable shape, the sides rounded, without any humeral callus, 



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