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ON NEW SPECIES OF CURCULIONIDAE ATTACKING FOREST TREES 



IN INDIA. 



By Guy A. K. Marshall, C.M.G., D.Sc. 



Subfamily Brachyderinae. 



Sympiezomias beesoni, sp. nov. (fig. 1). 



(J$. — Black ; the head and rostrum with thin blue-grey scales ; the pro thorax 

 with rather sparse dull blue scales on the dorsum, the sides entirely clothed with 

 dense metallic green scales ; the disk of the elytra as far as stria 4 covered mainly 

 with blackish scaling, more or less interspersed with green scales, which are some- 

 times denser along the suture ; beyond stria 4 the sides are clothed with dense 

 pale green scaling almost to the margin, the inner edge of the green area being very 

 irregular ; the lower surface with dense greyish green scaling. 



Fig. 1. Sympiezomias beesoni, sp. n. 



Head with coarse punctation that is usually confluent longitudinally, and often 

 with a very faint broad transverse impression behind the eyes ; the vertex rarely 

 with a median stria, but usually with a central fovea. Rostrum a little longer than 

 its basal width, shallowly impressed in the middle, with the usual short median furrow, 

 which is not continued on to the forehead, the carinae on each side well marked and 

 parallel. Antennae piceous ; joint 1 of the funicle slightly longer than 2. Prothorax 

 a little broader than long, narrower in front than behind, broadest about the middle, 

 the sides gently rounded ; with coarse confluent punctation above, the interspaces 



