356 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on neio Curculionidce. 



tured ; antennse black, second joint of the funicle shorter than 

 tlie first ; prothorax closely granulate ; scutellum roundish ; 

 elytra convex, gradually narrower from tlie base, the anterior 

 part slightly depressed, striate-punctate, punctures coarse, 

 approximate, the interstices covered with irregular granula- 

 tions ; body beneath rather closely covered with small whitish 

 scales ; fore legs elongate ; tibise slightly bisinuate. 



It is only under a strong lens that the real sculpture of the 

 elytra is seen ; to the naked eye they seem minutely punc- 

 tured in close regular lines. So far as the facies is concerned 

 this species may follow A. decurvus. 



Alcides vestitus. 



A. cylindricus, niger, plerumque dense albido-pilosus, setulis intei'- 

 jectis ; rostro tenuato, basi confertim punctate ; prothorace 

 granulate ; elytris modice convexis, lateribus parallelis. Long. 5 

 lin. 



Hob. Banda. 



Rather narrowly cylindrical, black, covered with large 

 patches of a close-set whitish squamosity, studded with hair- 

 like setee ; rostrum slender, twice as long as the prothorax, 

 the base with crowded punctures ; antennte pitchy, second 

 joint of the funicle longer than the first ; prothorax nearly as 

 long as broad, the middle of the disk bare and closely granu- 

 late, the sides densely covered with whitish scales ; scutellum 

 subquadrate ; elytra moderately convex, parallel at the sides, 

 on each a bare oblique stripe in the middle, the rest with a 

 dense covering of whitish scales ; body beneath densely 

 covered with minute yellowish scales ; fore tibias strongly 

 bisinuate. 



The close-set whitish or yellowish-white scales or squamo- 

 sity, studded with hair-like setae, nearly covering the whole 

 upper surface of this species, will at once differentiate it from 

 any of its congeners. In the above four species the femoral 

 tooth is very distinctly denticulate. 



Alcides nitidus. 



A. oblongus, glaber, nifcide chalybeatus, supra squamulis albis macu- 

 latim ornatus ; rostro elongato, tenuato, fere recto, subtilissime 

 punctate ; prothorace leviter punctate ; elytris punctis pams 

 seriatim instructis. Long. 4-5 lin. 



Hob. Batchian, Waigiou. 



Oblong, smooth, glossy steel-blue, more or less spotted 

 with masses of white scales ; rostrum slender, elongate, nearly 

 straight, minutely punctured ; antenna pitchy, funicle elon- 



