. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. 150 :. 112. Astycus immunis, Walk. Astycus immtmis, Walker,-* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 18o9^ p. 263. Strophosomns siituralis, Walker,* 1. c. p. 262. ? Arhines destructor, Nietner, Kev. Zool. 1864, p. 120. Colour black, with uniform green or coppery scaling, which is usually denser and more yellow along the sides of the prothorax and elytra. Head shallowly punctate, the forehead plane, slightly wrinkled and with a narrow central furrow; eyes elliptical, moderately convex. Rostrum about as long as broad, slightly narrowe
. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. 150 :. 112. Astycus immunis, Walk. Astycus immtmis, Walker,-* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 18o9^ p. 263. Strophosomns siituralis, Walker,* 1. c. p. 262. ? Arhines destructor, Nietner, Kev. Zool. 1864, p. 120. Colour black, with uniform green or coppery scaling, which is usually denser and more yellow along the sides of the prothorax and elytra. Head shallowly punctate, the forehead plane, slightly wrinkled and with a narrow central furrow; eyes elliptical, moderately convex. Rostrum about as long as broad, slightly narrowed to the apex, more or less shallowly impressed above, with a very broad and deep central furrow on the basal two-thirds, and a single fairly sharp marginal carina, followed by a shallow longi- tudinal impression. Antenna' red-brown, the funicle with joint 1 longer than 2, 3 scarcely longer than 4, 7 transverse (c? ) or as long as broad ( $ ). Prothorax about as long as broad in the c?,. Fig. 48.—A^ti/cus immunis. Walk. broader than long in the $ , its sides subparallel from the base to the middle, then narrowed iu a curve to the apeX; the basal margin shallowly bisinuate, the upper surface more convex longi- tudinally in the S , rugosely and confluently punctured, and with a deep narrow central furrow from the base nearly to the apex, the scales small and separated. Scutellum transverse. Elytra with the sides parallel from the shoulders to the middle in tlie (S, slightly ampliated in the $ , broadly rounded behind, the shoulders sloping and not prominent, the apices not mucronate, punctato- striate, the intervals broad, smooth and slightly convex : scales larger and much denser than on the prothorax, their surface uneven and scintillating in the J, more opaque in the 5 , the setae minute and recumbent. Legs blackish ; the tibia3 not sulcate, the upper edge of the hind corbels but little raised above that of the tibiae and forming an obtuse angle at the Please note tha
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