On a new Genus of Asiatic Curculionidae. 245 



Skull : greatest length 109 ; condylo-basal length 106 ; 

 front of canine to buck of m 2 l'J'5; antero-posterior diameter 

 of m 1 externally 7. 



Hub. N. Somaliland. Type from near Berbera. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 97. 8. 9. 10. Original 

 number 1. Collected 3rd December, 1896, and presented by 

 Dr. A. E. Atkinson. Five specimens examined. 



There is always much variability in the colour of these 

 foxes, but the harsher fur, the increase in the grey of the 

 sides of the back, and the decrease of the ochraceous along the 

 spine are so generally characteristic of the Somali specimens 

 in comparison with the Egyptian as to make a subspecific 

 name for the former advisable. 



XXVIII. — Platymycterus, a new Genus of Asiatic Curculio- 

 nidae (Coleopt.). By Guy A. K. Marshall, D.Sc 



The genus Corigetus, Desbr.,* belongs to Lacordaire's group 

 Cyphicerides, and, as denned by Faust (Stett. Ent. Zeit. 

 18U0, p. 67), comprises a number of Oriental species. As it 

 stands at present, it obviously contaius various discordant 

 elements, and will no doubt eventually be broken up into 

 several genera. It is here proposed to separate off from it 

 a small and homogeneous group of species that are related 

 to Corigetus f ecu, Fst., a native of Burma and Assam. 



Platymycterus, gen. nov. 



Rostrum broad, almost flat above and lying in the same 

 plane with the forehead, the sides straight or only slightly 

 dilated at the apex ; the scrobes short, apical and completely 

 dorsal in position, subtriangular, broadly and abruptly de- 

 limited behind, the basal width almost equal to the length 

 and the space between them equal to or less than half the 

 width of the forehead ; the process forming the covering of 

 the antenna! socket convex, bare and shiny, appearing almost 

 as if it were the actual condyle of the antenna; the epistome 

 short, deeply and angularly emarginate in front, its hind 

 margin forming a low rounded ridge, not sharply cariuate, 

 the angle being a right angle or less and ending a little 



* Deabrochers, 'Abeille,' xi. 1 873, p. 7 16 ( 1 874 ) ; Faust, Dent. Eat. Zeit 

 1885, p. 167; Reitter, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1900, p. 0^. 



