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than on the disk, and a small blackish patch on the shoulder, which sometimes spreads 

 backwards almost to the middle ; on the elytra there are also the following small 

 spots, formed of narrow yellowish scales : one a little before the middle on interval 6 

 and another on interval 4 on a line with it, along.thejpostenor edge of the blackish 

 band one each on intervals 1,2,3, 4, 5, and 7, that on 1 being behind the others, some 

 of which may be absent ; scutellum black ; the legs red-brown, with the apices of 

 the femora blackish ; the sternum red-brown and the abdomen blackish. 



Head with strong and close, but not confluent, punctures ; a deep stria close round 



the margin of the eves and a deep fovea between them. Rostrum almost as ong as 



the prothorax, with two median rows of coarse punctures, a narrow mdistmct 



carina between them, and two coarsely punctate sulci on each side ; the interspaces 



with scattered fine punctures. Antennae with joint 1 of the funicle much longer than 



2 ioint 3 as long as broad, 4 to 6 gradually becoming shorter, and 7 much broader 



than 6 and with denser silky pubescence. Prothorax as long as or slightly longer 



than broad, the sides subparallel from the base to rather beyond the middle, thence 



narrowing to the apex ; the base shallowly bisinuate, the dorsal apical margrn arcuate 



the post-ocular lobes feeble ; the surface very coarsely and rugosely punctate except 



on the apical fourth, the punctures partly confluent in oblique lines, and with a very 



short central costa in the anterior part of the rugose area ; the apical area smooth, 



with numerous separated punctures of unequal size. Scutellum about as long as 



broad, almost flat, indistinctly punctate. Elytra parallel- sided to beyond the middle 



the shoulders roundly rectangular, the apices separately pointed ; the surface with 



regular rows of large subquadrate foveae to the top of the declivity, the apical area 



with deep striae containing shallow punctures, the three lateral rows shallowly sulcata 



throughout ; the foveae not regularly aligned transversely, the longitudmal intervals 



between them about as broad as the transverse interspaces, for the most part smooth 



and rather shiny, but here and there with flattened, scarcely raised granules, and 



set with sparse minute recumbent white setae ; interval 10 with a rounded impression 



a little before the middle. Sternum finely coriaceous, the metasternum with large 



shallow separated punctures at the sides and sparse minute ones m the middle. 



Length, 9-10| mm. ; breadth, 3-4 mm. 



Assam: Shillong, 5,000 ft., vi.-vii. 1918 (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher); United 

 Provinces • Almora, vi-viii. 1916 (H. G. Champion). 



Most nearly allied to D. (Hylobius) notatus, Pasc, from Java, of which it has quite 

 the general form, but the latter, apart from its entirely black ground-colour differs 

 in havin* the rostrum narrowly 5-carinate, the central carina being the highest ; the 

 punctures on the forehead are coarse and confluent ; the two basal joints of the 

 funicle are equal ; the prothorax is less rugosely punctate, but the apical area is 

 coarsely and confluently punctate like the disk ; the scale-like setae are much more 

 numerous and conspicuous, etc. . 



The weevils were found by Mr. Fletcher boring into growing apple fruits, and 

 Mr. Champion found them breeding in logs of chir pine {Ptnus longtfolia). 



Dyscerus malignus, sp. nov. (PI. xvii, fig. 4). 



<??: Colour dull black, with sparse small hair-like scales, the posterior declivity 

 of the elytra tinged with red-brown, and the yellowish hair-like scales here much 



(C541) 



