MYLLOCERUS. 



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convex, the forehead broader than the space between the scrobes. 

 Rostrum longer than the head, its sides narrowed from the base 

 to the middle and dilated again at the apex, the apical emargi- 

 nation very shallow, the base of the epistome broadly rounded ; 

 the upper surface impressed and with a central furrow which is 

 deep in front and shallow at the base, the lateral cariuae distinct. 

 Antennce thick, the scape gradually dilated ; the funicle with 

 joint 1 short, conical, and very broad at its apex, 2 longer and 

 narrower, 3 to 7 short, transverse, and subequal, the club elongate 

 and scarcely broader than the funicle. Protliorax transverse, the 

 sides rounded, broadest slightly behind the middle, truncate at 

 the base, the apex narrower and vertically truncate at the sides ; 

 the upper surface closely punctate and with a rounded impression 

 ou each side behind the middle. Elytra subtriincate at the base, 



Fig. 97. — Mylloccms di-^coideus, Oliv. 



the shoulders roundly rectangular, the sides subparallel to beyond 

 the middle in the $ , gradually nan-owed from the shoulders in 

 the (S , the stria; distinctly punctate, the intervals with short sub- 

 depressed setae. Leffs stout, ferruginous, the femora Avith a single 

 tooth. 



Length, 5^-7^ mm. ; breadth, 21-3 mm. 



Bengal. China. Japan. 



Tyjye in the Paris Museum. 



289. Myllocerus postfasciatus, sp. nov. 



Colour piceous, with light fawn scaling ; the elytra with an 

 irregular and ill-defined broad oblique dark brown band behind 

 the middle, extending from stria G to the suture, and with some 

 indistinct paler and darker markings in the basal half. 



Head with the eyes subdorsal and only slightly convex, the 

 forehead scarcely as broad as the eye, not broader than the space 

 between the scrobes and with a short central stria. Bostnim 



