. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. EPISOMUS. 221 180. Episomus irregularis, sp. nov. Very nearly allied to E. montanns and E. arcvatus. Antennae with joint 2 of funicle very slightly longer than 1, and 4 subequal, the club as stout as in /;. arcuatus. with the sculpturing; shallow, as in the last-named species. Scvtel- lum prominent, visible from the side. Ehjtra shaped as in E. montanus, but the fovete very shallow, irregular in size and. Fig. io9. â EpL<0i,ms rrrctjii/c/i-is, Msbl. shape, and often indistinct, owing to the fact that the transverse ridges
. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. EPISOMUS. 221 180. Episomus irregularis, sp. nov. Very nearly allied to E. montanns and E. arcvatus. Antennae with joint 2 of funicle very slightly longer than 1, and 4 subequal, the club as stout as in /;. arcuatus. with the sculpturing; shallow, as in the last-named species. Scvtel- lum prominent, visible from the side. Ehjtra shaped as in E. montanus, but the fovete very shallow, irregular in size and. Fig. io9. â EpL<0i,ms rrrctjii/c/i-is, Msbl. shape, and often indistinct, owing to the fact that the transverse ridges separating tbem are unevenly developed, being in some places partly or entirely obliterated, and in others unusually dilated, appearing like flattened granules ; the intervals narrow subcarinate and more or less undulating, interval 7 with an elongate dilatation about the middle covered with pale scaling: the scale-hke setse shaped as in E. arcuatus. Length, 15| mm. ; breadth, 6| mm. Madras : Malabar district. Tijpe 2 in the British Museum. I have seen only the type specimen, 181. Episomus figuratus, Kuvscli (fig. G6, s). Episomus Jiguratus, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 387. Episomus annulipes, Chevrolat,* Rev. Mens. d"Ent. 1883, p. 77. Episomus ceylonicus, Faust,* Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxi, 1897, p. 161. â Colour black, the upper surface with dense light or dark brown scaling, often variegated with paler spots or patches ; the inflexed margins of the thorax and elytra with pale blue, or gi*eenish, or simply whitish scaling, this lateral scaling never extending above the 6th stria. Head with a broad central furrow, without lateral impressions. Rostrum about as long as broad, roundly dilated towards apex, the dorsal costae evidently sulcate. Antenna', with the second joint of funicle slightly longer than first, joint 7 cylindrical, narrower than the club, about as long as the club in ,5 , a little longer in $ .. Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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