264 



CURCTLIONID^. 



or distinctly ( 2 ) broader than the space between the serobes ; 

 eyes only slightly convex, sufficiently dorsal in position that both 

 sides of the head can be seen at the same time from above. 

 Rostrum broader than long, the sides almost straight and sub- 

 parallel, the gense not dilated, the upper surface tricarinate and 

 only shallo'.vly impressed in the middle, the central dorsal area 

 parallel-sided and a little nai*rower than the lateral areas as seen 

 from above, the serobes entirely dorsal and approximated. 

 Antennce long, black, the scape gently curved and with recumbent 

 setae ; the funicle with joint 1 longer than 2, the remainder 

 distiuctly longer than broad. Prothorax transverse, the base 

 slightly bisinuate and broader than the apex, tlie sides gently 



Fig. 82.— PtocJins straho, Mshl. 



rounded, broadest at the middle, the upper surface rather strongly 

 convex, with large and fairly close punctures throughout. 

 ScuteJlum minute. Elytra ovate, broadest about the middle and 

 acuminate behind, the basal margin sinuate ; the shallow striae 

 contain rows of comparatively large punctures, but these are 

 mainly hidden when the scaling is intact, and the striae then 

 appear quite narrow; interval 1 slightly raised along the suture, 

 the others almost flat and set with fairly long erect pale setae. 



Length, 'ih—^h ^"'"- ! breadth, \\-2\ mm. 



Madras: Nilgiri Hills (//. L. Andrewes). 



Tyjies d $ in the British Museum. 



231. Ptochus imbellis, sp. nov. 



Piceous, with dense greyish-bi'owu scaling. 



Head with the eyes lateral and strongly convex, the forehead 

 almost plane, finely striolate beneath the scaling, nearly twice as 

 broad as the space between the serobes. liostrom almost as long 

 as broad, strongly narrow ed from the base to beyond the middle, 

 the gense slightly dilated, the serobes subdorsal and somewhat 



