358 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new CurcuUonidce. 



Obovate, brown ; head, rostrum, and antennae dark pitchy 

 brown ; rostrum stout, nearly straight, a little longer than 

 the prothorax, remotely punctured throughout ; second joint 

 of the funicle considerably shorter than the first ; prothorax 

 with rather large, flattish, and occasionally confluent granules, 

 the interspaces finely setulose, the sides with close-set scales, 

 trifid at the apex ; elytra gradually broader behind, striate- 

 punctate, the striee filled with silaceous hair-like scales, the 

 interstices with large, flattish, approximate granules ; body 

 beneath covered with greyish scales ; legs comparatively 

 short, the tooth on the femora not denticulate. 



The elytra broader behind and their strise filled with 

 silaceous scales, forming well-defined lines alternating with 

 the glossy interstices, will at once differentiate this very 

 marked species. The scutellum is not to be distinguished 

 from the surrounding parts. 



Alcides collar is. 



A. breviter ovatus, niger, nitidus, prothorace rnfo-castaneo elj'trisqne 

 albo-bifasciatis ; femoribus dente parvo integro instructis. Long. 

 3i lin. 



Hah. India, 



Shortly ovate, glossy black, the prothorax reddish chestnut, 

 and the elytra with two white bands of close-set scales ; ros- 

 trum stout, shorter than the prothorax, gradually broader 

 towards the apex, not curved, and approximately punctured 

 throughout ; antennse pitchy, short, stout, first joint of the 

 funicle twice as long as the second ; prothorax somewhat 

 globose, with large, flattish, crowded granules, each with a 

 minute white scale behind, the middle with a few punctures ; 

 scutellum small but distinct ; elytra slightly narrower from 

 the base, with large subapproximate punctures, the interspaces 

 smooth, a transverse series of nearly united spots at the base, 

 and just behind the middle a flexuous band_, not meeting at 

 the suture ; body beneath glossy black, with patclies of white 

 scales ; legs comparatively short ; the anterior femora armed 

 with a slender spiniform tooth, their tibiae moderately bi- 

 sinuate. 



The species of Alcides here described have bifid claws and 

 elytra not, or scarcely, broader than the prothorax ; the latter 

 more or less transverse, with the sides behind the contracted 

 apex rounded, except at the base. In all the species of this 

 large genus (I have about 140) the funicle is only six-jointed, 

 and the base of the prothorax is deeply bisinuate, the scutellar 

 lobe especially advancing considerably between the elytra. 



