356 CURCULIOiyiD.E. 



6 (7) Fimicle with joint 1 evidently longer than 



2 ; elytra with the longitudinal outline 

 fiat dorsally and abruptly declivous 

 behind, with a distinct emargiuation 

 just above the apical process hirtus, Fst., p. 357. 



7 (6) Funicle with joint 1 not or only slightly 



longer than '2 ; elytra with the dorsal 

 outline slightly convex and continuous, 

 without any pre-apical emargiuation . . tntus, Fst., p. 358. 



8 (5) Elytra with doubled rows of much denser 



and finer, soft, pale hairs ; prothorax 

 with short curved or subrecumbent 

 seta3 Janiu/bieus, Fst., p. 359. 



337. ArrMnes languidus, GijJ. 



Arhines lamjuidns, Gyllenhal,* Schunli. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834, p. 466. 

 Arhines brunnens, Faust,* Stett. Ent, Zeit. 1886, p. 142. 



Colour black or brown, the elytra without scaling, but with 

 rather long, dense, suberect, soft pale pubescence, which is a little 

 longer and more erect at the base. 



Head with close shallow punctation, the forehead with a rounded 

 central impression. Rostrum only slightly dilated at the apex, 

 with short suberect pubescence, closely and confluently punctate 

 above, and with a more or less distinct central carina. Antennce 

 with the scape very slightly curved and gradually thickened 

 towards the apex, the funicle with joint 1 much longer than 2. 

 Prothorax rather broader than long, a little shorter than the head 

 and rostrum together, with the sides rather strongly rounded, 

 broadest at the middle ; the upper surface with coarse confluent 

 punctation and short erect pubescence. Elytra oblong-ovate, 

 parallel-sided from the shoulders to beyond the middle, the dorsal 

 outline almost flat and steeply declivous behind, the apices each 

 with a small process, deeply punctato-striate, the intervals rather 

 broad and smooth, the pubescence not concealing the sheen of 

 the elytra. Le<js piceous brown, with pale pubescence; the femora 

 unarmed, but sometimes with a faint trace of a tooth. 

 Length, 5|-6| mm. ; breadth, 2|-3 mm. 



United Pkovinces : Dehra Dun ; Delhi (Ind. Mus,). BEJfaAL : 

 Pusa {H. M. Zf/Voy— Pusa Coll.) ; Kanchi, Chota Nagpur ( W. H. 

 Irvine — Ind. Mus.) ; Calcutta {E. T. AtKnson) ; Pertapganj ; 

 Sarda {F. W. Champion). Kashmir : Jhilam Valley {Dr. Stoliczka 

 —Ind. Mus.). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum; that of A. hrunneiis Vit Dresden. 

 The only character which Faust mentions as differentiating 

 his A. hrunneus from A. languidus, Gryl., is the greater length of the 

 hairs on the posterior two-thirds of the elytra. This feature is 

 fairly well marked in the type in Faust's collection, and also in 

 another of Stoliczka's specimens in the British Museum. But a 

 co-type in the Indian Museum (also taken by Stoliczka) is inter- 

 mediate between these and lawjuidvs ; while Bengal examples af 



