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CUECULIONID^. 



with distinct scars, the uientum with a transverse row of four 

 setse. Antenna; stout, the scape curved iu tlie basal third, only 

 slightly broadened at the a])ex and reaching beyond the middle 

 of the prothorax ; the funicle with joint 2 much longer than 3, 

 3 and 4 subequal, 5 and 6 shorter and subequal, 7 shorter and 

 narrower than 6 ; the club spindle-shaped. Sternum with the 

 front coxae nearly iu the middle of the prosternum ; epimeron of 

 tlie mesosternum rather long and narrow, of the two outer sides 

 the hind one is markedly longer than the anterior one ; the 

 scaled portion of the metepisternum very narrow in the middle. 

 Legs : the femora not very strongly clavate, with a small narrow 

 sharp tooth ; all the tibite straight, the posterior pairs with a 

 short inconspicuous spine at the inner apical angle, the corbels of 

 the hind pair open; tarsi with the second joint subtriangular, 

 almost as long as the third, the claws free. 



Range. Assam, Baimia. 



Distinguished from Myllocerus, Schh., by the structure of the 

 head, the small seventh funicular joint, and the presence of four 

 setae on the mentum. 



260. Stelorrhinus carinirostris, Msld. 



Myllocerus carinirostris, Marshall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 

 1913, p. 184 ; Stabbing, Indian forest Insects, 1914, p. 401. 



Colour black or chestnut-brown, with brown and green or 

 white scaling ; the sides and under-parts pale metallic green or 

 whitish ; the prothorax dark brown above with two narrow green 



Fig. 92. — Mylloecrtis carinirostris, Mshl. 



or white stripes; the elytra indistinctly striped, the intervals 2, 

 4 and 6 being brown, the alternate intervals rather paler and 

 more or less irrorated with green scales, especially at the base 

 of 3 



Head with the frontal plate slightly narrowed behind, the sides 

 not reaching the eye margins, broadly truncate at its base and 



