species of Indian Curculioiiii-Iaa. 195 



Subfamily Omophobinj!. 

 Genus Teluropus, nov. 



Head globose, with the eyes lateral. Rostrum stout, about 

 as long as the frout tibia, somewhat depressed, the apical 

 margin very shallowly sinuate ; the scrobes invisible from 

 above, beginning at some distance from the apex, enrving 

 rapidly downwards behind the antennpe, and ending in a flat- 

 tened punctate area almost on the lower surface of the base 

 of the rostrum; mandibles stout, tridentate; mentum small 

 and square, about equal in length to the peduncle of the 

 submentum, and not broader than the lateral space on each 

 side of it. Prothorax Avith the basal margm deeply bi- 

 sinuate ; the anterior margin oblique at the sides and without 

 any postocular lobes. Scutelluni distinct, almost circular. 

 Elytra short and broad, with ten complete strife ; the in- 

 flexed lateral margin unusually narrow, involving only the 

 tenth stria, and without true epipleurae. Wings fully deve- 

 loped. Legs short and stout ; the femora only slightly 

 clavate and each with a small tooth, tlie hind pair scarcely 

 reaching the apex of the elytra ; the tibiae with the external 

 apical angle strongly uncinate, and the inner angle with a 

 sharp mucro as well ; the tarsi short and broad, the second 

 joint twice as broad as long, the fourth projecting only a 

 short distance beyond the third, the claws simple and stout. 

 Sternum with the front coxse very widely separated and placed 

 behind the middle, the space between them quite flat ; the 

 median coxa3 still further apart, the side-pieces of the meso- 

 sternum fused together but divided by a stria, the suture 

 between the mesosternurn and ei)isternum entirely oblite- 

 rated, and the intercoxal piece broadly truncate ; the length 

 of the metasternum between the coxae not greater than that 

 of the median coxse, the episternaas broad as the base of the 

 raid-femora and fused with the metasternum, but the line of 

 junction quite distinct, the epimera impei'ceptible ; the hind 

 00X36 as widely separated as the middle pair. Venter short, 

 with segment 2 nearly as long as 3 + 4 and separated from 

 1 by a deep straight incision, the intercoxal process very 

 short and broad, with an angular projection in the middle, 

 and segments 2 and 3 angulate externally. 



Type, Teluropus subcostaius, Sj). n. 



In general form the only known species bears considerable 

 resemblance to the African genus Omophorus, Schh.*, and 



* In most collections this genus stMiids under the later name Metn- 

 tyges, I'asc. M. tiirritus, Pasc, is a synonvm of O. stoniavJiosua, Boh., 

 ■while M. pcv'ous, Fat., u identical with O. indixpositus, Boh., the type or 

 which is uow in the Oxford Uuiversitv Museum (Summer' « collection^. 



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