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ME. P. P. PASCOE ON THE CURCTJLIONID.E. 



Contributions towards a Knowledge of the Curculionidae. 

 By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S., late Pres. Ent. Soc. 



Part III. 

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

 [Eead June 20, 1872.] 



Ottistira. 

 (Brachyderinae.) 



'Rostrum breviusculum, crassuin, apice nudum ; scrobes transversa?, 

 infra oculum longe currentes, antice sulco longitudinali abbre- 

 viato instructae. Oculi rotundati, aliquando frontales. Scapus 

 clavatus, prothoracem fere attingens ; funiculus 7-articulatus, ar- 

 ticulo secundo seepe priino sesquilongiore, ultimis subturbinatis ; 

 clava ampla, distincta. Protlwrax rotundatus, lobis ocularibus 

 nullis. Scutellum parvum. Elytra ampla, prothorace multo 

 latiora. Pedes mediocres ; femora modice incrassata, mutica 

 (ex. leucogenys et gibbosa): tibice plerumque arcuatae, posticae 

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

 unguiculi basi connati ; coxae anticae sejunctae, intermediae di- 

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

 truncatus. Propectus brevissimum. Abdomen segmentis 3-4 

 brevibus. 



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

 geration of what we find in Sciaphilus i 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 coxaB not 

 being contiguous, it would fall 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. 



Ottistira bispinosa. (PI. X. fig. 6.) 0. variabilis, subtestacea vel 

 fusca, dense griseo- vel cinereo-squamosa, plus 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, punetis 

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

 ram armatis, interstitiis 3-5-7 elevatis ; tibiis anticis arcuatis, reliquis 

 subrectis. Long. 2\ lin. 



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



