224 'Mr. G. A. K. Maishali on new 



XXI. — On new Species of Indian Curculiouidse. — Pait I. 

 By Guy A. K. Marshall. 



Sypera medicagitn's, sp. n. 



M. plantagims statura et colore simillima, sed thorace minus 

 transverso et minus rotundato, elytris in dorse deplanatis, 

 humeris magis prominentibus et subrectangulariter rotundatis, 

 equamis latioribus et magis profunde escisis. 



Colour black, clotlied with dense greyisli-wliite or brownish- 

 grey scaler, the thorax with two broad dor.-al brownish 

 stripes (often indistinct in the middle) enck)sing a narrow 

 pale median line ; these stripes are continued on to the 

 elj'tra, forming a conspicuous dark brown patch at the base 

 of intervals 2 and 3 ; the lateral and apical areas of the 

 elytra are darker than the disk, being lighter or darker 

 brown, ^ith rows of ill-defined brown or blackish spots on 

 the intervals, the inner margin of the dark area running as 

 folloATs : — frcm below the shoulder obliquely to interval 5 at 

 about one-third from the base, then straight along interval 5 

 for nearly another third of its length, and thence again 

 obliquely to the suture, reaching it at the top of the declivity ; 

 the tirst, or sutural, interval usually with a row of dark spots 

 from before the middle to the apex. 



Head with the front nearly as broad as the base of the 

 rostrum. Bostrum a little shorter than the prothorax, gradually 

 dilated from base to apex, thinner than the fiont femora, 

 closely punctured and without any trace of a carina ; 

 mandibles red-brown. Antetince red-brown, the scape just 

 reaching the front margin of the eye, joint 1 of the funicle 

 longer than 2. Protliorax rather liroader than long, the 

 sides moderately rounded, broadest a little before the middle, 

 only slightly narrowed behind. Elytra with the shoulders 

 roundlv prominent, the sides subparallel to beyond the 

 middle ; the finely punctured stride entirely hidden by the 

 dense scaling, each scale very broadly emarginate for about 

 one-third ot its length, the two projecting points being 

 almost hair-like ; each interval with a row of stout suberect 

 bristles. 



Long. 4-4|^, lat. 2 mm. 



I3e>;GAL : Pusa [H. Mamcell Lefroy). 



Types^ J' ? ,in the British Museum. 



In size and colouring very similar to H. pJantaginis,^^ G., 



