MYLLOCERUS. 



337 



distinguished, among other characters, by having only one tooth 

 on the posterior femora instead of three. 



Mr. Lefroy informs me that this species devours the vouug 

 leaves of the mango tree. 



315. Mylloceriis transmarinus, Hhst. 



Curculio transinariims, Ilerbst,* Kilf. vi, 1795, p. 213, pi. 75, f. 1. 

 Myllocervs mvsculus, Bohemaii,* Schijnh. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834, 



p. 429 (n. syn.). 

 Myllocerus heru/alensis, Desbrochers des Leges,* C. R. Soc. Ent. 



Belg. XXXV, 1891, p. ccclvi (n. syn.). 

 Myllocerus molar ins, Faust,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 268, & 1893, 



p. 149 (u. syn.). 

 Myllocerus transmarinus, Stebbiug, Indian Forest Insects, 1914. 



p. 402. 



Colonr black, with brown scaling, often faintly mottled with 

 grey, the sides of the protliorax and elytra greyish ; sometimes 

 the entire upper surface is uniformly grey. 



Head almost plane and scarcely punctate, the eyes lateral and 

 much narrower than the forehead, which is a little wider than the 

 space between the scrobes. llostrmn about as long as the head, 

 narrowing a little from the base, then slightly dilated to the apex, 

 shallowly impressed above and with a fine central carina whicli 



Fig. 102. — Mi/llocerus i ran smar inns, Hbst. 



ascends the forehead. Antennce piceous, with grey scaling ; the 

 two basal joints of the funicle subequal, 3 slightly longer than 4. 

 Protliorax very short, strongly transverse, the sides moderately 

 rounded, broadest about the middle, not constricted near the base, 

 the basal margin faintly bisinuate and a little broader than the 

 apex, the punctation deep and close, and more or less visible 

 through the scaling. Elytra comparatively broad, the shoulders 

 rather sloping, finely punctato-striate, the setaB very short and 

 depressed, scarcely discernible on the disk. Legs piceous, with 

 grey scaling, all the femora with a single small tooth. 

 Length, 3|-o^ mm. ; breadth, 1|-2| mm. 



