species of I nUan Carculionidae. 191 



Peltofrachelus smaragdus, sp. n. 



Black, with dense bright green scaling, the head usually 

 M'ith pinkish scales ; sometimes the insect is covered with a 

 more or less dense whitish coating over the green scaling. 



Head with the eyes very small, prominent and lateral ; 

 forehead with a central fovea. Rostrum longer than broad, 

 only slightly dilated at the apex, the dorsal area broadly 

 impressed, the under surface normal and with no projection. 

 AiUetime witli the scape aUiiost straight; the funicle with 

 j )int 2 nearly twice as long as 1, 1 hardly longer than 3, and 

 3 to 7 much longer than l)road. Prothorax with the sides 

 scarcely curved, only sligiitly narrower at the apex than 

 at the base, the dorsal anterior margin straight, the ocular 

 lobes absent, lieing replaced by a tuft of golden-yellow 

 vibrisste ; the upper surface closely punctate and with a 

 shallow fovea on each side behind the middle. Ebjtra with 

 fine distinctly pnnctate striie and bi'oad intervals where 

 tiie scaling is intact, the stria3 being a good deal broader 

 when the scaling is removed, but even then distinctly nar- 

 rower than the intervals ; the setae extremely short, dense, 

 and sul)erect. 



Length 4-6, breadth 2-3 mm. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills {Sir G.Hnmj)son, H. L. Andrewes). 



A very distinct speci(;s. Apart from the absence of the 

 ocular lobes, the facies is that of a typical Peltofrachelus. 



Genus Meionops, nov. 



^eaf/ separated from the rostrum by a very shallow trans- 

 verse impression; the eyes widely separated, comparatively 

 small, and almost circnlar. /iJo5f/r«<m rather broad and stout, 

 longer than its basal width, the buccal aperture oblique, the 

 apical emargination angular but rather shallow ; the true 

 scrobe apical and very short, the space from the scrobe to 

 the eye broadly impressed. yl?«^e)v,y/« elongate and compara- 

 tively slender; the scape cylindrical, abruptly clavate, and 

 curved only towards the apex ; the funicle with joint 1 much 

 longer than 2, 3 to 7 subequal, and the club narrowly spindle- 

 shaped. Prothorax simple, strongly transverse, the sides 

 rounded, its greatest width almost or quite equal to that of 

 the elytra, the apex imrrower than the base, the latter trun- 

 cate or faintly bi sinuate, the ocular lobes not very prominent, 

 broadly rounded and with short vibrissse, the- front cox^e 

 placed in the centre of the prosternum. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra with the base vertically truncate, its margin being 



