Species 0/ Indian CuiculionldsS. 197 



setae ; the anterior pairs of tibiae rather sharply angulate on 

 the lower surface not far frorn the base. 



Length 4|-5, breadth 2|-3 mm. 



IViADKAs: Coimbatore (E. Ballard, type). Mysore: 

 Madhavgiri, on leaves of jak-fruit, Carey a arborea (H. U. 

 Mann, Pusa Coll.). 



Subfamily Isorrhyncrin^. 

 Ph<enomerus angulicoUis, sp. n. 



$ . Colour black, sparsely clothed with rather stout, 

 transversely recumbent, pale yellowish, liair-like scales, 

 having the following patches apparently bare, but really 

 clothed with similar black hairs which are not very con- 

 spicuous : — A large transverse patch on the anterior half of 

 the prothorax, and two irregular patches on each elytron, 

 one before and the other behind the middle. 



Head with scattered punctures, the eyes a little more 

 widely separated thau in P. sundewalli. Rostrum red-brown, 

 the thickened basal portion forming about one-fourth of the 

 whole, and not sulcate, but with two posteriorly convergent 

 rows of fine punctures on the disk ; the scrobes continued 

 to beyond the middle as a shallow punctate furrow, and with 

 a fine stria just above them. Prothorax at least two and a 

 half times as long as its basal width, the sides obtusely 

 angulated in front of the n)iddle, the dorsal margin bounded 

 by a fine carina in the basal half, the upper surface with 

 reticulate punctures which are longitudinally subcoalescent, 

 leaving a distinct smooth central carina. Elytra narrowly 

 cylindrical, about as broad as the prothorax at its angu- 

 lation, with shallow strise containing closely set transverse 

 punctures, the intervals narrowly carinate, except the four 

 outer ones, which are broader and almost flat. Legs similar 

 to those of P. sitndewalli, except that the large tooth on the 

 elongate hind I'emora is more deeply sinuate at the base of 

 its posterior edge, so that this edge is distinctly angulated 

 in the middle. 



Length 3j, breadth | mm. 



Bengal : Sanderbans, 13. ii. 1915 [C. F, C. Beeson). 



Very similar superficially to P. sundewalli, Eoh., but 

 distinguished by its obviously narrower build, more widely 

 separated eyes, the lateral angulation and basal lateral 

 caiina of the prothorax, and the shape of the tooth on the 

 hind femora. 



Found in burrows iu sundri-trees {Heritiera liitoralis), 



