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CURCULIONID.E. 



chalky- white efflorescence, the head being usually tinged with 

 yellow and \\ith metallic green scales at the apex of the rostrum. 

 Head narrowed from back to front, the sides straight, the eyes 

 dorsal (so that the external margins of both can be seen plainly 

 from above at tlie same time) and converging slightly in front, 

 the forehead with a rounded impression and about as broad as 

 the width of the eye. liostrum evidently longer than the head, 

 not or but slightly broader than long, narrowed from base to 

 apex, the sides straight ; the scrobes entirely dorsal, the space 

 between them a little broader than the forehead ; the median area 

 parallel-sided for the most part, but somewhat narrowed at the 

 base, shallowly impressed and with a central carina which is more 

 or less obscured by scaling behind ; from the lower anterior 

 corner of the eye runs a low rounded longitudinal ridge, which 

 curves inwards indistinctly about the middle ; mandibles red- 

 brown, with the cutting edges broadly black'. Antennce black or 



Fig. 93. — Myllocerus viridanus, F. 



piceous, the two basal joints of the funicle elongate and subequal, 

 ■joint 3 a little longer than 4, and 4 than 5. Protliorax subcorneal, 

 "broadest at the base and strongly narrowed to the apex, the sides 

 straight, the basal margin very deeply bisinuate, the upper surface 

 set with deep separated punctures whic'j are concealed by the 

 scaling. Elytra almost parallel-sided from the shoulders to 

 beyond the middle in the S , dilated behind the middle and with 

 the shoulders laterally prominent in the 5 : the striae (when 

 covered with scaling) very narrow and with fine lono;itudinal 

 punctures, the intervals plane, the setae very short and subrecum- 

 bent. Ler/s black, with green scaling ; all the femora bidentate, 

 the outer tooth always small, but sometimes reduced to a mere 

 trace. 



Length, 3|-44 mm.; breadth, l|-2^ mm. 



Madbas : on teak, Coimbatore {E. P. Stehbiiuj); on ground- 

 nuts, Trichinopoli and Chepauk (Pusa Coll.); on plumbago. 



