MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCULIONID^. • 4G1 



cius squamulosis, femoribus anticis dente minuto instructis, tibiis 

 intus muticis. Long. 4 lin. 

 Hab. North China; Japan ; Mantchuria. 



The scales ou tliis Curculionid are each deeply cut into five or 

 six narrow, hair-like lobes. The name is in allusion to the form 

 of the black patch on the prothorax and elytra. 



Alcides ligatus. J.elongatus, subcylindricus, rufo-ferrugineus, squa- 

 mositate umbrina tectus, lineisque angustis albo-squamosis ornatus ; 

 rostro longitudine dimidia elytrorum, paulo arcuato, baud valido, su- 

 pra carinulato ; prothorace subconico, subremote granulato, lineis 

 quinque, una mediana longitudinali, una utrinque obliqua, atque 

 una angulata flexa laterali ; scutello parvo, nigro ; elytris basi pro- 

 thorace paruni latioribus, striato-punctatis, interstitiis uniseriatini 

 granulatis, linea obliqua a scutello ad fasciam posticara ducta, al- 

 teraque a basi ad lineam obliquam fere in medio connexa, etiam linea 

 abbreviata post-humerali ornatis ; corpore infra, pedibusque squa- 

 mulis griseis dispersis ; femoribus anticis valde elongatis, tibiis eorun- 

 dem brevibus, valde arcuatis, fortiter dentatis. Long. 4| lin, 

 Hab. Java. 



Allied to A. chiliarchus, Boh., but with a smaller and shorter 

 rostrum, the white lines more numerous, differently arranged, 

 without a black patcli at tlie sides of the elytra, and the breast 

 unicolorous. 



Alcidgs discedens. a. elongatus, cylindricus, niger, opacus, squa- 

 mositate silacea quodammodo munitus ; rostro longitudine dimidia 

 elytrorum, fere recto, basi confertim punctato, apicem versus glabro, 

 nitido ; prothorace valde transverso, antice paulo angustiore, granu- 

 lato, fere nudo, in medio vitta silacea notato ; scutello glabro ; elytris 

 prothorace baud latioribus, profunde crebre seriatim punctatis, punctis 

 quadratis, squamositate repletis, a basi prope scutellum vitta silacea 

 fere ad apicem ducta ; corpore infra squamulis griseis sat dense tecto ; 

 pedibus pilis griseis dispersis ; femoribus anticis normalibus, tibiis 

 corundem breviuscuHs, compressis, parum arcuatis, intus bisinuatis. 

 Long. 5-6 lin. ? 

 Hah. Singapore ; Sarawak. 



One of the narrower species, like the preceding ; the stripe, 

 which commences behind the head, might be described as di- 

 viding into two as it passes on to the elytra, 



Alcides asphaltinus. A. modice elongatus, subcylindricus, ater, 

 nitidus, fere denudatus ; rostro prothorace duplo longiore, in medio 

 breviter sulcato, leviter punctato, paulo arcujito; prothorace sub- 

 conico, leviter punctatOj utrinque subtiliter sericeo-pubesCente ; scu- 

 tello parvo; elytris prothorace vix latioribus, substriato-punctatis, 



