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CURCULIO^'ID.S. 



transverse, the sides subparallel or slightly rounded in the anterior 

 half, then strongly constricted towards the base, the posterior 

 angles acnte, the basal margin moderately bisinuate and not 

 broader then the apex ; the upper surface witli large shallow 

 punctures hidden by the scaling and with a shallow transverse 

 impression before the base. Elytra of the normal shape, the 

 stride (as seen through tlie scaling) narrow and finely punctate, 

 the intervals almost plane and with very short dense subdepressed 

 setae. Ltgs piceous ; rhe anterior pairs of femora with two teeth, 

 the hind pair with a large tridentate tooth; the tibiae deeply 

 ei))arginate internally at the base, es])ecia]ly the hind pair. 



Lenqth, 4:-Qh mm. ; breadth, l|-iM nil". 



Ceylon : Galle ((?. Letuis) ; Colombo {Dr. W. Horn). M abbas : 

 Mahc and Ge\\]\ {Maindron) \ MaAwra. {C . Somers Smith); Trail - 

 quebar ; Vizagapatam ; on paddy, Shorainir, Malabar; on grouud 

 nuts, Palur, 8. Arcot (Pusa Coll.) ; Lake Chilka, Ganjam dist. 

 (Ind. Mus.). Bengal : Ealighai, Orissa (Annandale) ; Aiigul, 

 Orissa (J. Taylor — Ind. Mus.) ; Balugaon, Puri dist. (Annandale) ; 

 Palamow (Pusa Coll.); Chota Nagpur (Cardoa). 



Type in the Copenhagen University Museum. 



330. Myllocerus discolor. Boh. 



Myllocerus discolor. Boheni.in,* Schiinli. Gen. Cure, ii, 18.34, 



p. 428. 

 Myllocerus varieyatus, Boheman,* op. cit. vii, 1843, p. 9. 

 Mtfllocerus discolor var. variet/afiis, Stebbin?-, Indian Forest Insects, 



1914, p. 403. 



Colour black, with dull fawn-coloured scaling and paler 

 markings : the head with a pale ring I'ound the eye and a pale 



Fig. 106. — Mi/Uocerus discolor. Boh. 



vertical spot ; the prothorax with a central pale grey stripe and a 

 short basal stripe on each side of it ; the elytra densely variegated 



