MK. F. P, PASCOE ON TUE CUBCULlONIDiR. -IGl 



daire, aberrant, his formula being drawn up from five or six others 

 coming from Java, India, and Ceylon*. Mr. Wallace found spe- 

 cies in most of the islands he visited, from New Guinea to Singa- 

 pore ; and I have another from so far north as Japan. None have 

 been found in Australia. A few only are here described. It is 

 scarcely necessary to observe that the length of the rostrum varies 

 more or less according to sex, and that an approximation is all 

 that is attempted in the descriptions. 



AciCNEMis SUBSIGNATA. A. praecedenti affinis, sed minus variegata ; 

 rostro quam capite prothoraceque conjunctis vix loiigiore ; articulis 

 funiculi multo brevioiibus ; prothorace omnino griseo, squamulis 

 minus imbiicatis, antice multo angustiore; elytris subparallelis, gra- 

 nulis vix nitidis, et, prsesertim, tibiis brevibus. Long. 3 lin. 



Hub. Madras. 



AciCNEMis PEDUNCULARis. A. oblongo-ovata, nigra, umbrino-squa- 

 mosa, utrinque lineis duabus obliquis, alteraque pone medium elytro- 

 rum dense albo-squamosis ; roslroquam dimidio corporis vix longioie, 

 apice excepto, fortiter lineatim punctato ; antennis ferrugineis ; funi- 

 culi articulo sccundo primo vix longiore, tertio obconico, caeteris mo- 

 niliformibus, ultimo longiore ; clava brevitcr ovata, basi fortiter pedun- 

 culata ; prothorace oblongo-subconico, sat crebre profunda punctato, 

 punctis squamositate repletis, utrinque albido-lineato ; scutello tri- 

 angulari ; elytris cordato-trigonatis, seriatim foveatis, interstitiis po- 

 stice elevatis, humeris lateribusque albo-lineatis, pone medium linea 

 transversa, aliquando ad sutnram interrupta, notatis ; corpore infra 

 pedibusque dense umbrino-squamosis, setulis albidis adsperso; tibiis 

 posticis elongatis, intus obsolete bisinuatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Singapore ; Sarawak ; Java. 



The shortly ovate club abruptly pedunculate at the base is 

 strongly characteristic of this species. 



AciCNRMis FRENATA. y1. clliptica, nigra, umbrino-squamosa, utrin- 

 que lineis duabus nlbidis pone medium elytroruni curreiitibus oriiata; 

 rostro dimidio corporis baud ]onp;iorc, ferrugineo, triente basali fortiter 

 lineatim punctato, reliquo laivigato ; antennis ferrugineis ; funiculi 

 articulo primo longiore, 3.-6. moniliformibus, 7- ovato, tomentoso, 

 duobus prajcedentibus conjunctim longitudine aiquali ; clava elongato- 

 attenuata ; oculis modice approximatis ; prothorace oblongo, subco- 

 nico ; scutello nudo, cordato ; elytris cordato-trigonatis, striato-pun- 

 ctatis, interstitiis planatis, singulis in medio macula semilunari nigra, 

 postice albo-marginata, notatis ; corpore infra squamis griseis sejun- 



* M. Lacordaire has omitted to state that the scrobes are coufluent beneath, 

 although in some species there is -a slightly elevated line between, not, however, 

 really separating tliem. 



