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body, shorter in the female, basal four or live joints fulvous, rest 

 black, second and third nearly equal, slightly shorter than the 

 fourth. Thorax subcylindrical, about half as broad again as long, 

 sides rounded ; disc strongly convex, strongly longitudinally stri- 

 gose and reticulate. Scutellum pentagonal, with a few punctures. 

 Elytra wider at base than the thorax, distinctly depressed below 

 the base, closely longitudinally costate, interstices strongly punc- 

 tured. Legs piceous, apex of tibia? and the tarsi (generally) fulvous ; 

 femora with distinct tooth beneath. 



Length 3-4 mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Malabar ; Belgaum ; Nilgiris ; Pondi- 

 cherry; Ceylon. 



Easily recognizable by the dark bronze-coloured upper surface 

 and the rugose and costate thorax and elytra ; the species is not 

 entirely typical of the genus and the ocular sulci are not always 

 well marked. Lefevre's description of his P. striyicollis published 

 some months later than that of P. costatipennis, mihi, closely agrees 

 with it, except that the antennae of P. strigicollis are given as 

 scarcely reaching to the end of the thorax, which is not the case 

 in any specimen before me. 



635. Pagria restituens, Walker (Rhynchites), A. M. N. H. (3) iii, 



1859, p. 263. 



Dark aeneous ; labrum and basal joints of antennae fulvous. 



Head closely rugose-punctate ; antennae black, basal four joints 

 fulvous, third and fourth elongate. Thorax subcylindrical, sides 

 rounded, closely rugose-punctate. Elytra much wider at base 

 than the thorax, deeply transversely depressed below base, surface 

 strongly costate, interstices strongly punctate-striate, sides irregu- 

 larly punctured, without costae. Legs slender, piceous ; femora 

 with a small tooth beneath. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon (Oott. Brit. Mus.). 



This insect was described by Walker as one of the Curculi- 

 onidcp, to which it has some slight outward resemblance. It 

 is so closely allied to P. costatipennis, Jac. that it is doubtful 

 whether it is' specifically distinct, but the elytra are more irregularly 

 punctured at the sides and the legs seem more slender and are 

 with piceous in colour. 



636. Pagria laevifrons, sp. n. 



Black ; labrum, antennae, tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 



Head entirely impunctate, deeply sulcate above the eyes ; clypeus 

 subquadrate, separated from the face by a deep groove ; antennae 

 entirely fulvous, terminal joints thickened. Thorax subcylindrical, 

 posterior nearly twice the width of the anterior margin, sides 

 not angulated, nearly straight, surface rather closely and finely 



