306 CURCULIONID.!;. 



Type in the Dresden Museum, 



The narrow shoulders and subelliptical elytra give the species a 

 very distinctive facies. 



267. Myllocerus suspiciens, sp. nov. 



Colour black, sparsely clothed with pale green scales (perhaps 

 denuded) which are small, circular and convex. 



Head with the eyes entirely dorsal, subcircular, the forehead 

 much narrower than the eye and also narrower than the space 

 between the scrobes, with a deep central fovea. Rostrum about 

 as long as the head and almost as long as broad, gradually nar- 

 rowed from base to apex, the sides almost straight, the apical 

 emargination deep and augulated, the scrobes entirely dorsal ; the 

 central dorsal area about as wide as the lateral areas, the carina3 

 bounding it distinct and converging only near the base, with a 

 line central carina. Antennce black or piceous, the scape only 

 slightly curved, rugosely punctate and with recumbent pale setae ; 

 the funicle with joint 2 slightly longer than 1, joints 3 and 4 

 subequal. Protliorcuv subcylindrical, a little broader than long, 

 the sides scarcely rounded, the base subtruncate and only slightly 

 broader than the apex, of which the dorsal margin is rounded ; 

 the upper surface coarsely and closely punctate. Elytra jointly 

 subtruncate at the base, the shoulders moderately prominent, the 

 sides parallel to beyond the middle (? 5 ), the rather broad strife 

 with large shallow punctures, the intervals slightly convex, each 

 with a row of rather long erect yellowish setae. Legs with green 

 scaling and recumbent white setae, the tibise not angulate 

 internally, the femora with a single tooth. 



Length, 4 mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



South India. 



Type in th.e British Museum. 



268. Myllocerus riisticus, Fst. 



Myllocerus rusticus, Faust,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 368. 



Colour black or piceous, with thin greyish scaling. 



Head very finely striolate, tlie eyes lateral, the forehead much 

 broader than the space between the scrobes. Rostrum as long as 

 broad, about as long as the head, rather strongly dilated at the 

 apex, the apical emargination not very deep and forming an acute 

 angle, with a longitudinal impression above and a narrow carina 

 on each side of it. Antenncp piceous, very long and rather slender ; 

 the funicle with joint 1 much longer than 2, 3 evidently longer 

 than 4, 4 to 7 subequal. Prothorax much broader than long, tiie 

 sides strongly rounded in the c? ) less so in tlie $ , broadest at 

 the middle, truncate at the base, the apex vertically truncate at 

 the sides and scarcely narrower than the base ; the upper surface 

 with finely rugose puuctation. Elytra subtruncate at the base. 



