126 Mn F. P. Pascoe on new Curculionidse. 



Hob. Kitulgalle. 



Elliptic, black, somewhat glossy, five stripes on the pro- 

 thorax and four on each elytron pale tawny yellow ; on the 

 latter, one starts from the side near the scutellum, then curving 

 a little outwards is continued to the apex, two outer and basal 

 stripes are connected by a transverse bar just before the 

 middle, the fourth stripe is marginal, occupying the posterior 

 half, and joins the inner one at the apex ; rostrum slender, 

 longer than the prothorax, glossy black; antennae pitchy; 

 prothorax conical, rather closely granulate between the stripes ; 

 elytra slightly broader than the prothorax at the base, striate- 

 punctate, the interstices, except where the stripes intervene, 

 closely granulate ; body below covered with pale ocrheous 

 scales ; legs, except the black coxa3, reddish pitchy, sparsely 

 scaly. 



This species may be grouped with the following and two 

 or three other elliptic forms as yet undescribed. 



Kitulgalle is 1700 feet above the sea. 



Alczdes argutor. 



A. ellipticus, piceus, squamulis piliformibus subaureis indutus ; 

 elytris maculis quatuor ante medium, quatuor pone medium, vittis- 

 que duabus apicalibus fulvis notatis. Long. 2| lin. 



Hah. Dikoya. 



Elliptic, pitchy, covered with very small, yellowish, some- 

 what golden scales ; rostrum slender, longer than the pro- 

 thorax, finely punctured ; antennas dark pitchy ; prothorax 

 conical, irregularly and rather closely granulate ; scutellum 

 punctiform ; elytra scarcely broader than the prothorax at the 

 base, striate-punctate, punctures indistinct, each interstice 

 w r ith a row of rather remote granules, four small spots just 

 before and four behind the middle, and two stripes meeting at 

 the apex of each elytron, all of a dull yellowish colour ; body 

 beneath sparingly scaly ; legs ferruginous, with scattered hair- 

 like scales ; tarsi pitchy. 



PODALIA. 



Rostrum breviusculum, modice arcuatum; scrobes medianse, infra 

 rostrum currentes. Antennae breves ; funiculus 7-articulatus, 

 articulo primo majusculo, ultimis quinque transversis ; clava 

 ampla. Oculi magni, antice approximati. Prothorax normalis. 

 Scutellum parvum. Elytra prothorace haud latiora. Birna pec- 

 toralis inter coxas anteriores postice terminata. Abdomen segmeii- 

 tis duobus basalibus ampliatis ; pygidium obtectum. Pedes breves, 

 antici majores ; femora dentata ; tibia antics apice mucronatae; 

 tarsi (articulis tribus basalibus simul sumptis) euneiformes. 



