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Very closely allied to Calandra sculpturata, Gyl., from South and East Africa,* 

 which has the pronotum somewhat similarly sculptured, but the longitudinal cari- 

 nation is not so well marked in the basal half and the median carina is less distinct 

 in the African species ; this also has a small spot composed of a few pale scales in 

 the middle of the base of the pronotum, and another on the shoulder of each 

 elytron ; and the exposed part of the pygidium is more elongate and transversely 

 convex. C. shareae attacks the seeds of the sal tree {Shorea robusta), as well as 

 those of Dipterocarpus turbinatus. 



Prof. A. Hustache had already drawn up an M.S. description of this species upon 

 two specimens from Mauritius, but he has kindly suggested that the present 

 description should be published instead. 



Calandra glandium, sp. nov. (PI. vii, fig. 3). 



Closely allied to the foregoing species, and differing principally in the following 

 characters : — A rather larger insect and longer in proportion to its breadth ; rostrum 

 of the $ finely aciculate, rather dull, and as strongly punctate as that of the (J of 

 C. shoreae ; the rostrum of the (J much shorter and straighter, rugosely punctate 

 and with four dorsal rows of minute granules ; the pronotum with large reticulate 

 punctures, all the interspaces being equally raised and the median carina usually 

 indefinite and abbreviated ; the elytra longer in proportion, the posterior callus 

 more developed and intervals 3 and 9 elevated at the apex, so that the apical 

 junction of striae 3 and 8 lies in a deep impression ; the rugose area of the pygidium 

 more elongate and with a sharp median longitudinal carina. 



Length, 4 "6-5 '2 mm. ; breadth, I'G-l'S mm. 



India : W. Almora, Kumaon, numerous specimens bred from acorns of Quercus 

 ■incana {H. G. Champion — type) ; Naini Tal, Kumaon, bred from acorns of Quercus 

 dilatata (E. Marsden), 



Stenommatus musae, sp. nov. (PI. vii, fig. 7). 



Colour dull piceous black, usually with a greyish sheen ; the antennae, legs and 

 apical portion of the rostrum red-brown. 



Head short globular, smooth, rather shiny, with minute sparse punctures ; the 

 eyes actually contiguous beneath. Rostrum ( $) elongate, as long as the head and 

 prothorax together, slightly curved, moderately stout, almost cylindrical but some- 

 what flattened beneath, not dilated at the apex, opaque and with small close shallow 

 punctures for four-fifths of its length, the apical fifth impunctate and very shiny; 

 a deep lanceolate median furrow from the base to the antennae ; the lower surface 

 impunctate, with a low shiny median carina ; colour red-brown, with only the 

 basal third or fourth part blackish ; in the ^J, a little shorter and broader pro- 

 portionately, and blackish from the base to the middle or beyond. Antennae with 



* Schonlierr records this species from Bengal, but his description agrees well with a 

 South African species. Prof. Aurivillms has kindly confirmed the identification on 

 comparing one of my African specimens with the type of C. sculpturata, which, he 

 informs me, bears the label " Cap. B. spei ? Drege." The Indian record seems almost 

 certainly erroneous. Drege resided in South Africa, and all the other species described 

 from his collection by Schonherr are from that country. 



