274 CURCULIONID.^. 



the apex and base of equal width, the sides rounded and broadest 

 before the middle, slightly sinuate near the base, the apical margin 

 almost vertically truncate at the sides, with close confluent punc- 

 tation above and a rounded impression on each side behind the 

 middle. Scutelhon very small. Elytra with the base truncate and 

 very broad, so that the basal angles project beyond the prothorax 

 and form false shoulders ; the striae rather broad and with large 

 deep punctures, the intervals comparatively narrow and convex, 

 the dorsal oues uneven and more or less elevated, the elevations 

 on intervals 3, 5 and 6 broken up into long low tubercles, interval 

 7 carinate at the base and the suture slightly elevated on the 

 declivity; the seta) extremely short and inconspicuous. Le</s 

 piceous brown (the tarsi lighter) with thin pale scaling, the femora 

 almost bare on the basal half and with a stout tooth, the front 

 tibia) bisinuate internally. 



Length, 4-5| mm. ; breadth, 2-3 mm. 



Madras: Cuddapah {1,'ev. T. Camphell); Madura {C. Vomers 

 Smith). Bombay: N. Kanara (T. R. I). Bdl), Belgaum {H. E. 

 Andrewes). Burma: Taung-ngu and Tbarrawaddy {Corbett). 



Types c? § in the Dresden Museum. 



I am quite unable to agree with Faust in regarding this species 

 as a Cifphicerus, because, in the first place, the prothorax has 

 neither ocular lobes nor vibrissas, and secondly, the wings are 

 entirely absent and the elytra have not a true shoulder. 



248. Ptochus (?) crinitus, R^-dt. 



Omias crinitus, Redtenhacher, Hii^ers Kaschinir, iv, pt. 2. 1848, 

 p. 547. 



" Very similar to 0. rotundatus in faeies, but three times as 

 large, and readily distinguished from it by the rugosely granulato- 

 punctate prothorax, the apically pointed elytra, etc. Head broad, 

 the eyes moderately prominent, the forehead fiat and closely 

 wrinkled longitudinally, as is also the slightly narrower rostrum. 

 AntenncB reddish pitch-brown. Prothorax much broader than long, 

 truncate at base and apex, the sides slightly rounded, rugosely 

 granulato-punctate above. Scutellum invisible. Elytra globular- 

 ovate, jointly acuminate at the apex, deeply punctato-striate, with 

 large transverse punctures and smooth shiny intervals ; the upper 

 surface with very small and extremely sparse silvery scales, which 

 are somewhat denser towards the apex, the intervals with rows of 

 fine erect setae. Underside black, with very sparse setag. Leys 

 reddish piceous, the femora with a very small tooth."' 



Length, 4 mm. 



Kashmir [von fJilyel). 



Type missing. 



The late Dr. Ganglbauer was unable to trace the type of this 

 species in the Vienna Museum collection. The description does 

 not agree with any of the forms known to me, but the species 

 seems to be allied to P. ajfflictus, Fst. 



