288 CUECULIO'ID^. 



reaching the front margin of the tliorax, stout, slightly curved 

 and gradually thickened ; the funicle Avith the two basal joints 

 subequal, 3 a little longer than broad, the remainder as long as 

 broad; the club moderately broad, spindle-shaped. Elytra with 

 prominent rounded shoulders and ten punctate strige. Sternum : 

 the front coxa; about in the middle of the prosternum ; tlie 

 mesepimeron with the posterior side of the triangle a trifle longer 

 than the outer one; the metepisternum almost parallel-sided 

 behind the dilated head. Venter with segment 2 longer than 3 

 and 4 too-ether. Le;/s short, the femora moderately clavare and 

 with a short sharp tooth beyond the middle, but not so near the 

 apex as in Myllocerus ; tibios straight or moderately curved, with 

 a short apical mucro, corbels of hind pair open and terminal ; 

 tarsi as in Mylhcerus. 

 llancje. Burma. 



258. Brachycaulus posticalis, sp, nov. 



Colour black, with dense sandy grey scaling ; the prothorax 

 with an ill-defined lateral brown stripe on each side, which is 

 continued vaguely on to the base of the elytra ; the latter with a 

 very broad, common, dark brown, chevron-shaped marking 

 behind the middle, extending on each side as far as the sixth 

 stria and with its posterior edge forming a sharp angulation on 

 the second stria, the apical area whitish grey. 



Ficf. '^\.— Bmchi/i-auhts posticalis, Mshl. 



Head broad, longitudinally striolate beneath the scaling; the 

 eyes entirely lateral, very short oval, small and slightly prom- 

 inent, the forehead evidently broader than the space between the 

 scrobes and nearly three times as broad as the eye. Rostrum 

 broader than long, a little longer than the head, its base nearly 

 as wide as the head behind the eyes, the sides straight and 

 gnuluallv narrowing to the apex, the emargiuation Aery shalloM- 

 and broadly rounded, the upper surface nlmost plane and without 

 distnict carina?. Antenme red-brown, with dense pale scaling, the 



