CRYPTORHYNCHUS SP. 
_ Reference:—Provisionally determined as Cryptorhynchus sp. by Mr. C. O. 
7 Waterhouse, of the British Museum. Mr. Waterhouse wrote 
that it was at present impossible to name the species, it being 
new to the Museum. 
Classification :—Order, COLEOPTERA. Family, cuRCULIONIDA, 
Descr tption, 
The Jarva is a small white, thickish, legless, curved grub 
of the ordinary weevil type. Length nearly jin. See Pl. IV, 
fig. 7, @. 
The pupa is naked, dark in colour and tucked round it the 
developing wings can be distinctly seen. On the underside the 
legs and the proboscis, both still immature, are to be seen 
folded on the breast and body. 
The Jdeet/e has the ordinary weevil shape. Head and 
rostrum black, the latter a little more than a } length of insect, 
not very thick and tapering slightly to apex ; it is tucked under 
body at rest: the scrobes (grooves in which the scapes of the 
antennz fit) commence a little above the middle of the rostrum 
and are slightly oblique, directed upwards to the point where 
the base of the antenne takes off. Antenne fairly stout, the 
scape swollen into a knob at the point of its juncture with the 
funiculus (upper part of antenna, above elbow) ; funiculus ends 
in an oblong oval knob. Eyes large, strongly facetted. 
Prothorax triangular tapering anteriorly, black marked with 
brownish spots. Elytra reddish-brown meeting well together ; 
channelled with a small white blotch about their centre anda 
larger one towards posterior extremity of each. Legs smallish, 
thighs gradually thicken to a lump where the tibie join them, 
the. posterior ones not reaching to the end of the abdomen. 
Tarsi long and hairy beneath. 
Pl. IV, fig. 7, 4, shows the pupa and, c, the mature beetle, 
