404 On new Weevils from IndLi. 



(usually about three deep) with intermingled yellowish and 

 blackish narrow setiforni scales ; the lower surface blackish 

 (except the prosternum, which is reddish) and densely clothed 

 with broad ovate whitish scales except on the mesepimeron, 

 the lateral lobe of the mesosternum, and the front half of the 

 melepisternum, where the scales are markedly narrower and 

 have a brownish tinge. 



Head coarsely and confluently punctate, with a carina on 

 the vertex ; the forehead strongly depressed, very broad 

 behind, and narrowing in front to the width of the rostrum. 

 llostmm extremely long and slender, cylindrical and mode- 

 rately curved, reaciiing to the hind margin of the first ventral 

 segment ; a smooth central line on the basal third and rows 

 of punctures on each side of it, the apical area smooth 

 and impunctate. Antenna' testaceous brown, inserted behind 

 the middle of the rostrum ; the scape without any apical 

 process ; the funicle with joints 1 and 3 subequal, 2 markedly 

 longer, 4 much longer than broad, 5 and 6 globular. Fro- 

 thovdx with the sides as long as half the basal margin, gently 

 rounded and rather broadly constricted at the apex, the apical 

 margin being truncate (as seen from above), but raised in the 

 middle so as to form a vertical angle ; the basal margin rather 

 less oblique on each side than usual, the spine very long and 

 slender, extending nearly for one-half the suture ; the upper 

 surface not very convex, coarsely and subreticulately punctate, 

 with a well-marked and complete central carina, and a promi- 

 nent carina on each side of it in the anterior half, below 

 which the sides are compressed. Elytra as long as their 

 greatest width, the striae deep but not broad, each containing 

 a row of spaced yellowish scales ; the intervals evidently 

 broader than the striae, flat, and coarsely punctate. Legs 

 rather long and slender, clothed with separated yellowish 

 setiform scales ; the femora with a stout tooth ; the dorsal 

 apical fringe of the hind tibia3 not longer than the first tarsal 

 joint. Sternum with the front coxae moderately widely sepa- 

 rated ; the mesosternum quite flat and almost vertical ; the 

 metasternum simple. 



Length 2f-2f, breadth lf-2 mm. 



Madkas: Nilgiri Hills (//. L. Andreioes). 



Differs from all the Indian species known to me by its 

 very long and slender rostrum ; the unusual length of the 

 second joint of the funicle is also noteworthy. 



