. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. SYMPIEZOMIAS. 165 edge, but ceasing before the apex, a similar stripe on intervals 5 and G, eucroaehing a little on 4 and 7 at tlie base, and a narrower white stripe along the suture from tlie base to the declivity. Head with very fine shallow punctation. Rostrum finely ))unc- tate, not impressed dorsally and with a very short centraf furrow. Prothorax a little broader than long, the sides very slightly rounded and broadly constricted at the apex, finely coriaceous above and with a faint central stria from the base to beyond tlie middle
. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. SYMPIEZOMIAS. 165 edge, but ceasing before the apex, a similar stripe on intervals 5 and G, eucroaehing a little on 4 and 7 at tlie base, and a narrower white stripe along the suture from tlie base to the declivity. Head with very fine shallow punctation. Rostrum finely ))unc- tate, not impressed dorsally and with a very short centraf furrow. Prothorax a little broader than long, the sides very slightly rounded and broadly constricted at the apex, finely coriaceous above and with a faint central stria from the base to beyond tlie middle. Elytra rather narrowly ovate, the humeral fold slight and not forming a prominent tubercle, the apices separately and sharply mucronate, deeply punctato-striate, the intervals rather narrow and slightly convex, with short white setse on the declivity, which is distinctly impressed. Length, 51-8 mm.; breadth, 2-31 mm. Madras: Pondicherry (Perrotet). Type in the Stockholm Museum. 124. Sympiezomias acutipennis, Boh. Brachyaspisfes acutipennis, Boheman,* Schijnh. Geu. Cure, viii, pt. 2, 1845, p. 415. Colour black, with chalky-white scaling (usually more or less tinged with yellow at the sides) which is sparse on the disk, but much denser laterally and beneath. Bead finely coriaceous and with scattered coarse punctures, the forehead without a central stria. Rostrum about as long as the. Fig. 51.—Sympic-omias acutipennis, Boli. width at the base, shallowly impressed above, coarsely punctate and with a deep short central furrow. Prothorax broader tlian long in the $ , slightly longer than broad in the S, obliquely truncate laterally at the apex, sides slightly rounded, broadest about the middle, rather strongly constricted at the apex, the upper surface finely sculptured, with the shallow confluent punc- tation usually hidden by the scaling and without any central. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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