380 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on neiv CurcuUon'idie. 



congeneric, which cluster round Sjyhenophorus Dehaaniij 

 GylL My j\Iegaproctus imcjionatus^ for the same reason, must 

 be removed from the genus to which I have referred it, sup- 

 posing its horizontal pygidium to be, as Lacordaire asserts, a 

 character of generic importance. 



Rhina Meldolce. 



Ji. angusta, nigra ; rostro bifariam denticiilato ; prothorace reticu- 

 lato-punctato ; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis quadratis, iuter- 

 stitio tertio squamositate ochracea interrupte vestito. Long. 

 5-7 lin. 



Eab. Andaman. 



Narrowly oblong, black, a conspicuous stripe on each 

 elytron, and a series of linear spots on the side composed of 

 an ochreous squamosity ; rostrum shorter than the prothorax, 

 denticulate above on each side ; antenna? median in the male, 

 subbasal in the female, the club broadly ovate ; prothorax 

 longer than broad, coarsely reticulate-punctate ; scutellum 

 triangular ; elytra not broader than the protliorax, striate- 

 punctate, punctures quadrate (larger at the sides), interstices 

 convex, the third with a slightly interrupted linear stripe ; 

 pygidium covered ; body beneath and legs dotted with punc- 

 tures, each bearing a pale scale ; anterior tibi« curved, the 

 inner margin not spinose, but fringed with long ferruginous 

 hairs in the male. 



This species agrees with the St. Domingo IL scrutator, 

 01., in facies and in having the anterior tibiai without spines 

 and ciliated in the male, but differs in sculpture and in having 

 a short broadly ovate club, &c. 1 owe my specimens to 

 Prof. Meldola, F.li.S., who found them and other interesting 

 forms at Port Blair. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XL 



Fig. 1, Nassophasis pictipes. 

 Fig. 2. Laogenia laticollis. 

 Fig, 3. Cercidocerus heros. 

 Fig. 4. Neoxides bilineatus. 

 Fig. 5. Tyndides luctuosus. 

 Fig. t). (Jiiddijnatlms cutnptus. 

 Fig. 7. Dinichus terreus. 

 Fig. 8. Ontiuafv/anijms stigma. 



