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CUBCULIONID.5:. 



scaling, the intervals with broad, erect, white scale-like setce. Zc//s 

 ilavescent, with dense pale scaling, the femora with a small tooth. 



Fig. 101.— M//llocems blandus, Fst. 



Lengili, 2|-3 mm.; breadth, 1-1| mm. 



Madras : Machavaram, Godavari dist. Bengal: Pusa {Lefroy) ; 

 Dacca (Pusa Coll.); Siripur (lud. Mus.); Sarda {F. W. Champion). 

 Burma : Prome (Gorbett) • Mandalay and Yenang-Yaung (Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



311. Myllocerus ineptus, sp. nov. 



Colour black. The specimens are much rubbed, but the scaling 

 is apparently of a uniform grey colour. 



Head punctate, witli the sculpturing liidden by scaling, the eyes 

 lateral and prominent, the forehead much broader than tlie space 

 between the scrobes, with a fine low central carina. Rostrion 

 about as long as the head, shorter than the basal width, slightly 

 narrowed from base to apex, tlie sides almost straight, not dilated 

 in front, the apical emargination rather deep and forming an 

 acute angle ; the upper surface moderately impressed, with a low 

 central aud higher lateral cariuse. Ante.nnm red-brown; the funicle 

 with joint 2 longer than 1, and with 3 distinctly longer than 4. 

 Proihorax transverse, the sides almost parallel from the apex to 

 the middle, then strongly constricted, the basal margin being 

 slightlv narrower than the apical and very shallo\^■ly bisinuate, 

 the apical margin oblique laterally ; the upper surface coarsely 

 punctate, but the sculpture hidden by the scaling, a broad and 

 deep transverse impression at the base. Elytra truncate at the 

 base, the shoulders rather more sharply angulate than usual, 

 the striae shallow and distinctly punctate, the intervals flat and 



