284 CURCULIONID^. 



in front. Hostrvm as long as the head, slightly widened near tlie 

 apex, the narrowed dorsal area qnite plane and smooth. Antenna- 

 reddish brown, the scape witli short erect seta3. Proiliorax sub- 

 cyliudrical, the sides very slightly rounded, broadest at tlie middle, 

 the apex scarcely narrower than the base, the rugose punctation 

 of the upper surface almost concealed by the scaling. Elytra 

 separately rounded at the base, the strise distinctly punctate, the 

 intervals rather convex and the alternate ones a little more raised, 

 the setae very short, sparse anil depressed. Legs light reddish 

 brown, with thin pale scaling. 



Length, 2'^ mm. ; breadth, 1 mm. 



Cetlox. Burma. 



Tigpe destroyed. 



Genus DREPANODERES. 



Urepcoioderes, Waterhouse, Trans. Eut. Soc. (2) ii, 1852, p. 186; 

 Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi, 1863, p. 215. 



Type, Drepanoderes viridifasciatus, Waterh. 



Bead veith the eyes large, oval, lateral and moderately convex. 

 Rostrum continuous with the head and about equal to it in length, 

 the base much broader than the forehead, the apical emargination 

 rather shallow and obtusely angulate ; otherwise as in Myllocerus, 

 except ttiat the scrobes are more lateral in position. Antennm 

 inserted right at the apex of the rostrum ; the scape strongly 

 curved, gradually thickened and exceeding the front margin of 

 the thorax ; the funicle with the two basal joints elongate, 2 

 evidently longer than 1, 3-7 subequal and longer than broad, the 

 club 4-jointed and narrowly ovate. ProtJiorax very transverse, 

 the sides produced into a broad sickle-shaped process curving 

 backwards into a sharp point, the anterior margin vertically trun- 

 cate and a little narrower than the base, which is shallowly 

 bisinuate, the gular margin slightly sinuate. Scntellwn small, but 

 distinct. Elytra oblong-ovate, much broader than the base of the 

 thorax at the shoulders, which are sharply angulate, the longi- 

 tudinal curvature moderately convex and steeply declivous behind, 

 with 10 striae, the lateral margin slightly sinuate above the hind 

 coxse. Sternum with the front coxae in the middle of the pro- 

 sternum ; the mesosternum with the epiiiiera large, but evidently 

 smaller than the episterna ; the metasternum much longer than 

 the median coxae, the episterna distinct and fairly broad, the hind 

 coxae not reaching the elytra. Venter and legs as in Myllocerus, 

 but the femora with only a single small tooth. 



Range. India. 



Lacordaire has erroneously given the genus Pollendera, Mot- 

 schulsky, as a synonym of Drepanoderes ; it is, however, quite a 

 distnict genus and belongs to the subfamily Eeemnin.t;. 



