258 Mr. F. P. Pascoe's Catalogue of Zygopinae 



XXXIII. — Catalogue o/* Zygopinaj, a Suhfamilg o/' Curculio- 

 nidae, found by Mr. AVallace in the Eastern ArcMpelago, 

 By Feancis p. Pascoe, F.L.S. &c., late Prcs. Ent. Soc. 



[Continued from p. 222.] 



Aeachnopus. 



Gudririj Voy.Coq.(Entora.)p. 127 ; Lacordaire,Gen. vii.p. 159. 

 Arachnohas, Boisduval, Voy. Astr. ii. p. 435. 



Lacordaire, who was only acquainted with one species [A. 

 gazella), considered this genus so aberrant that he hesitated 

 whether he should not make it a distinct tribe. In my opinion 

 it would have been quite right to do so, as the new forms 

 described below, although all furnished with a pectoral canal, 

 are evidently allied to it, and indicate a subfamily di- 

 stinct from the normal Zygopinse of Malasia and America. 

 The chief structural peculiarities of this group are the great 

 breadth of the intercoxal process, in all except Nyphceha^ 

 whereby the posterior coxae are placed close to the edge of the 

 elytra, and the narrow metathoracic episterna; then under- 

 neath the femora there is frequently an excavation or canal 

 for the reception of the tibiae, and the latter are often deeply 

 scored or lined in a manner never seen in the genuine Zygo- 

 pinae. There are five species of this genus already described, 

 viz. : — A. striga^ Guer. (Dorey) ; A. gazella^ Boisd. (Dorey, 

 Waigiou, Aru) ; A. persona, VoUenh. (Waigiou, Batchian) ; 

 A. frenatus, Vollenh. (Salwatty) ; A. geometricus, Vollenh. 

 (Tondano) . 



Arachnopus hinotatus. 



A. ovatus, niger ; rostro basi confertim rude punctato ; antoiiuis 

 nigris ; funiciilo articulis duobus basalibus breviter obconicis, 

 ea^teris rotundatis, ultimo clavam quasi incipiente ; prothorace 

 subtiUter crebre pimctato ; elytris in medio prothorace latioribus, 

 seriatim punctatis, punctis sat magnis sod le\'iter impressis et 

 paulo approximatis, intcrstitiis latis, in singulo clytro macula 

 magna rotunda dcnsissirae flavescenti-squamosa decoratis ; corporo 

 infra nigro ; femoribus tibiisque nigro fimbriatis. Long. 6 lin. 



Hab. Aru. 



Arachnopus Wallacei^. 



A. ovatus, ater ; rostro basi confertim rude punctato et vage albo- 

 setoso ; autennis nigris ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus lon- 

 giusculis ; prothorace sat crebre punctato, basi in medio paulo 

 excavato, antice utrinquc maculis duabus niveis, basi linea griseo- 



* A figure of thia species is given in Wallace's ' Malay Archipelago,' 

 vol. ii. p. 154. 



