194 Dr. G. A. K. .Marshall on new 



much longer, more slender, nnd cylindrical rostrum, its 

 simply uncinate tibiae, free and bifid tarsal claws, and dentate 

 front femora. In Thamnobius the rostrum is also more 

 cylindrical, the scape does not exceed the front margin of 

 the eye, the tibirc are merely uncinate (not miicronate, as 

 stated by Lacordaire), and the tarsal claws are free and 

 appendiculate. 



Onychocnemis careyce, sp. n. 



$ ? . Colour rcd-bnjwu, shining and sparsely clothed 

 ■with short recuujl)ent white setne ; the head darker; the 

 elytra with the entire suture blackish brown, as well as a 

 large common patch extending from the base to beyond the 

 middle and laterally as far as the fifth stria, its outline 

 being very similar to that of the elytra ; the niesosternum, 

 metasternum, tarsal claws, and the two apical hooks of tlie 

 tibia also dark brown or ])lackish. 



Head rugoscly punctate, the forehead a little narrower 

 than the base of the rostrum and broader than the eye. 

 Rostrum very gradually widened from base to apex, rugoscly 

 punctate above from the base to the end of the scrobe, the 

 apical area more lightly punctate (cJ) or impunctate ( ? ). 

 Protlwrax subeonical, almost as long as its width at the 

 base, gradually narrowed from there to the apex, the sides 

 gently roundi (1, williout any anterior constriction, the basal 

 angles nearly right angles, the base angularly })rodu','ed in 

 the middle, the apical margin very shallowly sinuate dorsally 

 and oblique at the sides ; the uppf^r surface v.'ith coarse 

 reticulate punctation throughout and with a median stripe 

 of denser pale rccimibent setse. Elytra almost ])aiallel-sided 

 from the shoulders to well behind the middle, broadly 

 rounded behind, the apices continuous, the hasal margin 

 slightly raised and almost straight from the second stria to 

 the shoulders; the striae broad, containing deep closely-set 

 punctures, which diminish behind, the intervals scarcely 

 broader than the striae, almost fiat and finely aciculate, the 

 posterior callus nearly obsolete; the dorsal outline flat 

 from the base to the middle, then gradually declivous. Legs 

 coarsely punctate and clothed Avith curved white setae. 



Length 2-2^, breadth \-l\ mm. 



Mysore: IVfadhavgiri {H. H. Mann, Pusa Coll.). 



This species was found on the leaves of the jak-fruit tree 

 [Carey a arborea). 



