On New Species of Curculionidae attacking Forest Trees in India

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♂♀.—Black; the head and rostrum with thin blue-grey scales; the prothorax with rather sparse dull blue scales on the dorsum, the sides entirely clothed with dense metallic green scales; the disk of the elytra as far as stria 4 covered mainly with blackish scaling, more or less interspersed with green scales, which are sometimes denser along the suture; beyond stria 4 the sides are clothed with dense pale green scaling almost to the margin, the inner edge of the green area being very irregular; the lower surface with dense greyish green scaling.