258 Mr. F. P. Pascoe's Catalogue ofZygopince 



XXXIII. — Catalogue o/" Zygopinoe, a Suhfamily o/'Curculio- 

 nidae, found hy Mr. Wallace in the Eastern Arc/nj^elago. 

 By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S. &c., late Pres. Ent. Soc. 



[Continued from p. 222.] 



Arachnopus. 



Gu^rin,Voy.Coq. (Entom.)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 Zygopin^e of Malasia and America. 

 The chief structural peculiarities of this group are the great 

 breadth of the intercoxal process, in all except Nyphceba, 

 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- 

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

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

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

 A. frenatusy Vollenh. (Salwatty) ; A. geonietricus, Vollenh. 

 (Tondano). 



Arachnopus hlnotatus. 



A. ovatus, niger ; rostro basi confertiin rude punctate ; autcnnis 

 nigris ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus breviter obconicis, 

 cajteris rotundatis, ultimo clavara quasi iucipientc ; prothorace 

 subtiliter crebre punctate ; elj^.ris in medio prothorace latioribus, 

 seriatim punctatis, punctis sat magnis sed leviter impressis et 

 paulo approximatis, interstitiis latis, in singulo elytro macula 

 magna rotunda densissime llavescenti-squamosa decoratis ; corpore 

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



Hob. Aru. 



Arachnopus Wallacei*. 



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

 setoso ; antennis nigris ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus lon- 

 giusculis ; prothorace sat crebre punctate, basi in medio paulo 

 excavate, antice utrinque maculis duabus niveis, basi linea griseo- 



* A figure of this species is giveu in Wallace's * Malay Archipelago,' 

 vol. ii. p. 154. 



