AREHINES. nOLOMinyNCHUS. 359 



341. Arrhines lanugineus, Fst. 



Arhines Icmuqinem, Faust,* Ann. Mils. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 195 (1895). 



Colour black, with fairly dense narrow bluish-green scales, the 

 elytra sometimes with irregular darker subdenuded patches. 



Head finely rugose, the forehead with an elongate central fovea. 

 Rostrum strongly dilated at the apex, with very short erect setae, 

 longitudinally rugose above and with a fine central carina. A'n- 

 tennce piceous, the scape comparatively stout and gradually dilated 

 to the apex, the fiinicle with joint 1 evidently longer than 2. 

 Protlioracc slightly broader than long, about as long as the head 

 and rostrum together, the sides rather strongly rounded, broadest 

 about the middle ; the npper surface with numerous deep separated 

 punctures, the interspaces snbgranulate and not very shiny, with 

 short curved or subdepressed hairs. Elytra elongate, parallel- 

 sided from the base to the middle, then gradually narrowed, the 

 dorsal outline gently curved, the posterior declivity rather gradual, 

 the apices witii a short sharp process ; the intervals slightly 

 convex, indistinctly granulate, especially behind, with doubled 

 rows of dense long soft pale hairs. Lcfjs piceous, with sparse 

 green scaling and pale setae, the femora with a pronounced tooth. 



Lencftli, T^-S^ mm. ; breadth, 2|-31 mm. 



BuEMA : Bhamo {Pea) ; Maymyo {H. L. Andrewes). 



Type in the Genoa, Museum. 



Genus HOLORRHYNCHUS, nov. 



Type, Holorrhynclms integrirostris, sp. nov, 



Eostrum with the apical margin truncate and not emarginate, 

 so that the mandibles are almost entirely hidden from above ; the 

 epistome transverse, bounded posteriorly hj a gently curved 

 carina, behind which lies a broad transverse impression between 

 the antenuje ; the scrobes short and brond behind the autennae, 

 curving inwards and bounded behind by an indistinct oblique 

 carina; mentum almost circular, with a pair of setae on each side. 

 Antennce Avith the scape extending well beyond the front margin 

 of the thorax ; the joints of the funicle bearing narrow scales, 

 the two basal joints elongate ; the club ovate, three-jointed, 

 broadest at the apex of the first joint. Prothorax without lobes 

 or vibrissix! he-hind the eyes. Scutellum small, but distinct. Elytra 

 much broader than the prothorax, with uell marked shoulders 

 and ten striae, the lateral margin with a shallow notch near the 

 base and a marked sinuation above the hind coxae. Sternum : the 

 front coxae nearly in the middle of the presternum, the anterior 

 edge of Avhich is not sinuate ; mesepimerou in the form of an 

 isosceles triangle ; metepisternum narrow behind the head, widen- 

 ing rapidly in the posterior half. Venter with segment 2 longer 

 than 3-1-4. Leys: trochanters without a solitary projecting 



