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CURCULIONID^. 



Punjab : ou Dalberqla sissoo, Kulu and Bashahr States, Sutlej 

 A^alley, 2300-3500 ft. (E. P. Stebbing). United Provinces: 

 Allahabad (A. D. Imms) ; Dehra Dun. Bengal : ou Zizyphus 

 jujuba, Calcutta (F. H. Gravely — Ind. Mus.) : Siirda {F. W. Cham- 

 pion) ; on Z. jujuba, Pusa {H. 31. Lefroy — Pusa Coll.); Barwa, 

 Cbota Nagpur (Canlon). Central Provinces : Nagpur, 1000 ft. 

 (E. d'Abreu). Bombay: Poena; Gliozeh, Belgaum (R. E. An- 

 drewes) ; N. Kauara {T. li. D. Bell). Mabras : Genji (Maindron) ; 

 Bellary {de Morgan). 



Type in the Berlin Zoological Museum ; type of M. niuscidus in 

 the Stockholm Museum, of M. hengalensism the Brussels Museum, 

 of M. molarins in the Dresden Museum. 



The insect assigned to M. transmarinus, Hbst., by Boheman is 

 not this species, but 31. curvicornis, F. In describing 31. imisculus, 

 Boheman says that it has green scales mingled with the grey, but 

 I cannot detect any such scales i)i his t3^pe-specimen. 



316. Myllocerus pubescens, Fst. 



3IyUocerus pubescens, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 196 (1895). 



Colour black, shiny, without scaling, but with fine grey 

 pubescence and long erect pale settc. 



Mead impunctate, the eyes lateral, the forehead rather broader 

 than the .space between the scrobes and with a central fovea. 



Fig. 103. — Mi/Uocerus j^ubesceiis, Fst. 



Bostrum a good deal longer than the head, rather longer than 

 broad, the apical emargination shallow and rounded, with a broad 

 longitudinal furrow above with carinate edges and containing a 

 faint central carina. Aniennce black, the scape with suberect 

 seta3 ; the funicle with the two basal joints equal, 3 to 7 sube(|ual. 

 Prothorax as long as broad, the sides subparallel in the basal half 

 and strongly narrowed in front, the basal margin deeply bisinuate, 

 the external angles acute, but not projecting laterally, the apical 



