320 CURCULIOXID.*. 



rather longer than broad, longer than the head, the sides almost 

 parallel in the basal half and dilated at the apex, the apical 

 eniurgination very shallow, the base of the epistome ronnded ; 

 the upper surface shallowly impressed and indistinctly bicarinate. 

 Antennce reddish brown ; the funicle with joint 2 longer than 1, 

 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax a little longer than broad, almost 

 cylindrical, the base subtruncate, the apex of equal width and 

 vertically truncate at tlie sides ; the upper surface witli scattered 

 punctures visible through the scaling and with a rounded impres- 

 sion on each side behind the middle. Elytra shallowly sinuate at 

 the base, the shoulders rounded and rather sloping, the sides 

 slightly dilated behind the middle, narrowly ])unctato- striate ; the 

 scahug dense, the setae very short and subdepressed. Legs rufes- 

 cent, with pale scaling, the femora witli a siugle sharp tooth. 



LenqlJi, 3 mm. ; breadth, l^ mm. 



BuBMA : Mt. Mouleyit, 6UU0 ft., Tenasserim (Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



290. Myllocerus dorsatus, F. 



Curculio dorsatus, Fabricius,* Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 173; 



Bobemau, SchiJuh. Gen. Cure, vii, pt. 1, 184o, p. 6. 

 Myllocerus tesserula, Faust,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 865. 



Colour piceous, with green, golden green, or golden yellow 

 scaling, and brown or blackish markings ; t!ie head with a dark 

 patch on the vertex ; the prothorax with three narrow dark 

 stripes, the centre one being the narrowest ; tlie elytra mottled 

 on the disk with very variable confluent dark spots, but the suture 

 always with green or yellow scaling. 



Head minutely aciculate, the eyes lateral, the forehead a little 

 broader than the space between the scrobes. Rostrum about as 

 long as tlie head, broader than long, the sides narrowed from tlie 

 base to the middle and scarcely dilated at the apex, the apical 

 emargination very deep and forming an acute angle; the upper 

 surface shallowly impressed and with a fine central carina, which 

 ascends the forehead. Anienme very long and slender, the scape 

 abruptly clavate ; the funicle with joint 2 a little longer than 1, 

 3 and 4 subequal. Prothorax slightly broader than long, the sides 

 rounded, broadest at the middle, shallowly constricted before and 

 behind, the basal margin truncate, not broader than the apical, 

 which is oblique at the sides, closely punctate above, and often 

 with a faint central carina in the basal half. Elytra subtruncate 

 at the base, the shoulders roundly rectangular, the sides slightly 

 dilated behind the middle, finely punctato-striate, the intervals 

 \\\i\\ rather long and fine erect setaj. Leys flavescent, the femora 

 with a small sharp tooth. 



Length, 4-4 .| mm. ; breadth, l|-2 mm. 



Madras : Teppukadu, Nilgiri Hills, 2500 ft. (//. L. Andreives) ; 

 Pondicherry (Perro^t'^) ; Madura {C.Barton Wright); Bangalore 



