378 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Curculuniidce. 



Nassophasis pictipes. (PL XI. fig. 1.) 



N. oblonga, nigra, supra impresso-foveata ; femoribus dimidio basali 

 tibiisque rufis. Long. 4| lin. 



Hob. Ceylon ? 



Head and rostrum coarsely and irregularly punctured, the 

 latter moderately curved ; antennae black, scape extending to 

 the prothorax, club broadly ovate ; prothorax longer than 

 broad, the disk with deep irregular foveas, the intervals be- 

 tween with a few glossy granules ; scutellum very narrow ; 

 elytra broader than the prothorax at the base, deeply im- 

 pressed with oblong fovete — those near the suture in pairs — 

 the intervals irregularly raised, posteriorly two spots composed 

 of a dull greyish squaraosity ; body beneath black, sparsely 

 punctured ; basal half of the femora tmd tibiie rufous. 



Nassojyhasis with the facies of Sipalus has an uncovered 

 pygidium, obtuse and nearly vertical, therefore not seen from 

 above. In an arbitrary classification, which seems the only 

 practical one in a family which contains so many polymor- 

 phous species as the Curc^lionida^, I should prefer placing 

 it Avith the Calandrina^, although, perhaps, its affinity is more 

 with the Sipalinse, to which j\ii-. C. Waterhouse refers it. 



Neoxides. 



Rostrum rectum. Antennce basales. Pygidium horizontale. Pedes 

 auteriores longiores ; femora linearia. Cceteris ut in Megaprocto. 



Zetheus has also linear femora and a horizontal pygidium, 

 but then it has a curved rostrum, and, as a secondary cha- 

 racter, a linear outline. 



Neoxides hilineatus. (PL XI. fig. 4.) 



iV. elongato-ellipticus, niger, supra indumento nigrescente gutta- 

 tini ochiaceo notatus ; prothorace utrinque linea ochracea deter- 

 minata ornato ; clytris quam prothorax vix longioribus. Long. 

 9 lin. (rostr. inch). 



Hah. Sumatra. 



Elongate elliptic, dull blackish with scattered small round 

 ochreous ocellated spots above ; rostrum nearly straight, dark 

 ferruginous, with several small glossy tubercles; antennge 

 ferruginous ; first joint of the funicle stoutish, the second 

 equal in length ; prothorax nearly as long as the elytra and 

 as broad, the disk on each side with a well-defined ochreous 

 line ; scutellum rounded at the apex ; elytra gradually nar- 

 rower from the base, each posteriorly with a transverse ochre- 

 ous ringed spot with a dark centre ; pygidium elongate, acute, 



