MO MB. r. P. PASCOE ON THE CUECULIONIDiS. 



Conl ributiona towards a Knowledge of the Curculionidae. 

 By Ebanois P. Pascoe, P.L.S., late Pres. Ent. Soc. 



Part III. 



(Plates X., XI., XII., XIII.) 



[Eead June 20, 1872.] 



Ottistiea. 

 (Brachyderinse.) 

 nostrum breviuseulum, crassum, apice nudum ; serohes transversae, 

 infra oculum longe currentes, antice sulco longitudiuali abbre- 

 viato instructse. OcuU rotuudati, aliquando frontales. Scapus 

 clavatus, protlioracem fere attingens ; funiculus 7-articulatu3, ar- 

 ticulo secundo ssepe primo sesquilongiore, ultimis subturbinatis ; 

 clava ampla, distincta. Frothorax rotundatua, lobis ocularibus 

 nuUis. Scutellum parvum. JElytra ampla, prothorace multo 

 latiora. Pedes mediocres ; femora modice incrassata, mutica 

 (ex. leucogenys et gihhosa): tihice plerumque arcuatse, posticae 

 rectse, corbellis apertis ; tarsi breves, articulo tertio ampliato ; 

 unguiculi basi eonnati ; coxcb anticae sejunctsB, intermedia} di- 

 stantes (ex. naso et punctata). Processus intercoxalis late 

 truncatus. Propectus brevissiraum. Abdomen eegmentia 3-4 

 brevibua. 



The peculiar form and direction of tlie scrobes is but an exag- 

 geration of what we find in SciapJdlus, Strophosomus, &c. ; and, 

 notwithstanding the breadth of the elytra at the base, it is near 

 them, especially with the former, that I am disposed to place the 

 genus. According to Lacordaire's Table, the anterior coxae not 

 being contiguous, it would faU under the " Pachyrhynchides." The 

 species seem to be numerous, and scattered over the Malay archi- 

 pelago from Singapore to New Guinea ; but I have seen none that 

 were not found by Mr. Wallace. 



Ottistiua bispinosa. (PI. X. fig. G.) 0. vuriabilis, subtcstacea vel 

 fusca, dense griseo- vel cincrco-squamosa, i)lus minusve saturate ne- 

 bulosa ; rostro capite breviore, in medio lineatim sulcato ; antennis 

 testaceis; clava ovali, elongata; prothorace sat remote punctulato, 

 fusco-bivittato ; elytris convexis, fortiter sulcato-punctatis, punctis 

 remotis, singulis postice in maribus spina valida obliqua juxta sutu- 

 ram armatis, interstitiis 3-5-7 elevatis j tibiis anticis areuatis, reliquis 

 subrectis. Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Dorey ; Aru ; Mysol ; Waigiou ; Amboyna. 



