280 CUBCULIONID^. 



seemingly bisinuate when pressed close to the elytra, the apex trun- 

 cate and slightly oblique at the sides, the gular margin not sinuate. 

 Scutellum present, small and circular. EJjitra separately rounded 

 at the base, the apices jointly rounded, the shoulders distinct and 

 much broader than the prothorax, the dorsal outline convex and 

 steeply declivous behind. Sternum with the coxje in the middle 

 of the prosternum ; mesosternuiu with the side-pieces hardly 

 visible through the scaling ; metasternum a little longer than the 

 median coxae, the episternum narrow, the suture indistinct, the 

 hind coxae not quite reaching the elytra. Venter with the inter- 

 coxal process narrow and rounded, much nai-rower than the coxae, 

 segment 2 longer than P>-f 4 and separated from 1 by a curved 

 incision. Lec/s with the femora elavate, with a small sharp tooth at 

 the middle and constricted near the apex ; the rwo anterior pairs of 

 tibiae strongly curved and produced internally at the apex, the 

 hind pair straight, its corbels open, apical, and not ascending the 

 dorsal edge ; the tarsi short, joint 3 broadly lobate, 4 short, the 

 claws minute and connate at the base. 

 Mange. Southern India. 



252. Catorygma curvipes, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with sandy scaling and dark brow n mai'kings ; 

 the prothorax brown on the disk and pale laterally ; the elytra 

 with the brown markings more conspicuous on the disk and 

 sometimes forming three irregular transverse bands. 



Jlead ^^■ith the forehead very broad, convex and with short sfiif 

 erect bristles. Rostrum almost plane above, very faintly carinate 





M. 



Fig. 87. — Cator>/ffiiia citrvipes, Mshl., 2 ■ 



in the middle and at the sides. Frothora.v almost cylindrical, the 

 sides slightly rounded and broadest before the middle, the apex 

 and base of equal width ; the upper surface with fine rugose 

 sculpturing, which is hidden by the scaling, and with two faint 

 shallow impressions on each side. Elytra pamllel-sided from the 

 shoulders to behind the middle in the d" , dilated behind the middle 

 in the $ , with deep shallowly punctate striae which appear 



