324 CUECITLIONID.^. 



a darker stripe on each side, the elytra variegated with small 

 darker markings. 



Head impunctate and with a small frontal fovea, the eyes 

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

 Rostrum evidently longer than the head, as long as broad, its sides 

 narrowed from the base to near the apex, then slightly dilated, 

 the apical emargination shallow and forming an obtuse angle ; the 

 upper surface shallowly impressed, with a faint central carina, 

 the lateral carin?e distinct. Antennce ferruginous, the scape with 

 suberect sette, the funicle with joint 2 evidently longer than 1, 

 3 and 4 subequal. Proiliorax about as long as broad, its sides 

 slightly rounded, broadest at the middle, shallowly constricted 

 before and behind, the base subtruncate, a little broader than the 

 apex, which is obliquely truncate laterally, the punctation deep 

 and easily visible through the scaling. Elytra elongate, parallel- 

 sided, the shoulders roundly rectangular, the strine finely punctate, 

 the seta) moderately long and suberect. Legs ferruginous, with 

 the apical half of the femora piceous, the femora bidentate, the 

 posterior tibia3 emarginate internally at the base, the anterior 

 pairs with a sharp internal angulation. 



Lenr/th, 4|-5| mm. ; breadth, 2-2g mm. 



Bombay : Khanapur and Gliozeh, Belgaum [H. E. Andrewes). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



298. Myliocerus brachycoUis, Est. 



Myllocerus hrachycollis, Faust,* Ann. Mas. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 

 1894, p. 195 (1895). 



Colour piceous, with pale greenish scaling, the elytra with faint 

 irregular darker markings. 



Head very broad, the eyes subdorsal, slightly transverse and 

 almost flat, the forehead broad, yet scarcely broader than the 

 space between the scrobes. Rostrum very stout, about as long as 

 broad, longer than the head, very much thickened dorso-ventrally 

 towards the apex and separated inferiorly from the head by a 

 transverse furrow which extends aluiost to the lower edge of the 

 eye, the sides almost straight and parallel, not dilated at the apex, 

 the apical emargination broad, deep and acute : the upper surface 

 plane, with a tine central stria and two short carinje on each side, 

 the scrobes widely separated. Anteanai ferruginous, the scape 

 with sparse erect setse, the funicle with joints 1 and 2 subequal, 

 3 slightly longer than 4. Protliorax broader than long, the sides 

 parallel from the apex to the middle, then strongly narrowed to 

 the base, which is deeply bisinuate, the apical margin almost 

 vertical laterally ; the upper surface with scattered deep punctation 

 visible through the scaUng and with a transverse fovea on each 

 side behind the middle. Elytra separately rounded at the base, 

 the shoulders roundly rectangular, the sides evidently dilated 

 behind the middle ( $ only ?), finely puuctato-striate, the setae 



