MARSHALL: CurcuUonidae from Java, 26Q 



(2.4 mm.), when bent beneath the body reaching to the posterior margin 

 of the hind coxae, gently curved, with four sulci, the middle pair reaching 

 only to the antennae, the outer ones to the apex ; the basal half impunctate, the 

 apical half with rather sparse elongate punctures ; each sulcus containing a row 

 of recumbent hairs in the basal half. Antennae inserted in the middle of the 

 rostrum ($); the scape piceous with the apex paler, and bearing a very few short 

 hairs; the joints of the funicle in order of length : 1, 2, 3; (4, 5), 6, joints 4 and 

 5 being slightly longer than broad and 6 transverse; the two basal joints 

 of the club isolated. Prothorax conical tranverse with the sides quite 

 straight; the basal margin finely carinate, arcuate, and with a slight angu- 

 lation in the middle; the surface finely aciculate, with the hairs mainly 

 black in the median area, with an indefinite stripe of pale hairs down the 

 middle and a similar denser stripe on each side. Ely tra cordate, broadest 

 at the obtusely rounded shoulders; the base jointly sinuate, with a narrow 

 raised crenulate black margin, the apices separately rounded ; the striae very 

 deep, containing shallow distant punctures and without hairs or setae; the 

 intervals broad and almost flat, fairly densely clothed with pale yellow 

 recumbent hairs, which lie obliquely or even transversely except along 

 the base and suture, interval 2 with a patch of blackish hairs at about 

 0.75 mm. from the base, interval 3 with similar from the base to about 

 one fourth its length, and interval 5 with a small patch of blackish hairs 

 at the base and another at the middle (all these patches very indefinite). 

 Legs pale, clothed with thin recumbent hairs, the tips of the femoral teeth, 

 the apical fringe of setae on the tibiae, and the tarsal claws black ; all the 

 femora with one long sharp tooth, the front pair with three additional 

 smaller teeth towards the apex, the posterior pairs with two only. 



Mid-Java. 



Described from six specimens. The species bores in the fruits of 

 L agers troem ia spec iosa . 



All the previously described species of Ctenomerus are South African, but 

 the present insect cannot be separated from them generically. LACORDAIRE 

 placed the genus in the Erirrhininae, but as a matter of fact it is extremely 

 closely related to Nanophyes, and the only character that I can find to di- 

 stinguish them is that Ctenomerus has 6 joints in the funicle of the antennae, 

 whereas Nanophyes has only 5. Both SCHöNHERR and LACORDAIRE reckoned 

 the two basal joints of the loose club as forming part of the funicle. 



The South African genus Amphibolocoryniis, SCHöNH. and the Mada- 

 gascan genus Diacritus, PASC. (1882), belong also to the Nanophyinae, 

 both having the elongate trochanters. 



Subfamily Alcidinae. 



Alcides cinchonae, sp. n. 



d* Ç. A, leeuweni, HELLER, affinis, cylindricus, niger, nitidus, fascia e 

 squamis plumosis albidis ad latera prothoracis ultra medium elytrorum in 



