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Enaptorhinus shansiensis Han & Zhang, new species is described from China with a discussion of key characters and relationships between the new species and other members of the genus. Keys to the species of both male and female adult Enaptorhinus Waterhouse are presented. Illustrations of diagnostic features of the new species are provided. All type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

A key to the species of the Curculio dentipes (Roelofs) group of the Curculio from China with descriptions of the following new species: Curculio canosquama new species, Curculio dhilloni new species, Curculio octomaculata new species, Curculio unimaculata new species. Short diagnoses of previously described taxa are included: Curculio bidens (Heller), Curculio davidi (Fairmaire), Curculio dentipes (Roelofs), Curculio imperalis (Heller) and Curculio kiangsuicus (Heller).

A key to 19 species of the Curculio sikkimensis (Heller) group of Curculio from China is provided with descriptions of the following new taxa: Curculio brevidens new species, Curculio bullabrevis new species, Curculio careoparvus new species, Curculio dijoui new species, Curculio hobbsi new species, Curculio lyali new species, Curculio megadens new species, Curculio mullai new species, Curculio nigra new species, Curculio pascoei new species, Curculio penteri new species, Curculio songi new species, Curculio wangi new species, Curculio zangi new species. Brief reviews are provided for Curculio c-album Fabricius, Curculio hippophes Zhang, Curculio hsifanus (Heller) Curculio pylzovi (Smirnov), and Curculio sikkimensis (Heller). Types are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom and the California Academia of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Synommatoides scutellatus, new species, is described from China and is compared with S. shirozui Morimoto from Japan. The relationship between Synommatoides Morimoto and Synommatus Wollaston is discussed and the generic character of Synommatoides Morimoto is recomposed. Type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

A key to the species of the Curculio subfenestratus Voss group of the genus Curculio of China and descriptions of new taxa are presented. The following new taxa are described: C. artusfrons new species, C. balmeri new species, C. brittanyae new species, C. carlae new species, C. challeti new species, C. coartorostrus new species, C. congerae new species, C. fordi new species, C. gangkuensis new species, C. gansuensis new species, C. helleri new species, C. janetteae new species, C. luteusvittus new species, C. obrieni new species, C. polki new species, C. sleeperi new species, and C. tarae new species. Short reviews of the following previously described taxa are included: C. aino (Kono), C. albisquama Ter-Minassian, C. breviscapus (Heller), C. conjugalis (Faust), C. convexus (Roelofs), C. flavoscutellatus (Roelofs), C. funebris (Roelofs), C. ignobilis (Heller), C. interpositus Voss, C. klapperichi Voss, C. lobatibasis Voss, C. maculanigra (Roelofs), C. misellus (Heller), C. notobifasciatus Pajni ...

A new species of Shigizo Morimoto discovered in the collection of Dr. Charles W. O'Brien, collected on the Island of Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia, in a Malaise trap, is described as Shigizo obrieni new species.

The taxa of Curculio L. found in China are segregated into seven groups based on simple morphological characteristics and a key to the first groups, Curculio robustus Roelofs, Curculio flavescens (Roelofs) and the remaining five groups of Curculio from China are presented. Descriptions are included of the following taxa: Curculio beverlyae, new species, Curculio vivianae, new species, Curculio cristinae, new species, and Curculio fausti, new species. Redescriptions are provided of Curculio deceptor panthaicus (Heller), Curculio flavescens (Roelofs) and Curculio robustus (Roelofs). Curculio funebris (Roelofs) = Curculio shaowuensis Voss, is synonymized (New Synonomy). Type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China. Publication funded in part by the Patricia Vaurie bequest.

Allaeotes niger, new species, is described from China and compared with A. griseus Pascoe, 1885 from Indonesia. The relationship between the genus Allaeotes Pascoe and Synommatus Wollaston is discussed. All type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Synommatoides scutellatus He, Zhang and Pelsue, new species Holotype. China. Longquan: Female [Mt. Fengyangshan, 1,700 m, Longquan county, Zhejiang Province, China, 11-VI-1980, leg. X. Tong.] (IZAS) Paratype (1). China. Longquan: Male [Mt. Fengyangshan/ 1,700 m / Longquan County / Zhejiang Province / China / 11-VI-1980 /leg. X. Tong] (IZAS). Diagnosis. Derm dull black, punctures filled with yellowish brown vestiture, antennae and tarsi reddish brown. Antennae compact with 5-segmented funicle. Pronotum with anterior margin punctate. Scutellum present, tiny. Description. Male: Length (excluding head and rostrum): 3.4 mm, width: 1.65 mm. Rostrum slightly shorter than in female, 33 as long as broad, more coarsely punctate. Antennae inserted at 1/3 from base of rostrum, scape clavate, 33 as long as broad; funicle with 5 segments, 0.853 length of scape, segment 1 ovate, 1.33 as long as broad, segment 2 conical, 0.833 as long as broad, segments 3–5 transverse; club ovate, 0.93 length of funicle, 1.53 as long as broad, apex obliquely truncated, tomentose. Apical margin of pronotum arcuately convex, punctate, with 2 indistinct tomentose tubercles, basal margin truncated, disc with large punctures, reticulated. Scutellum (Fig. 5) tiny, shiny. Elytra 1.33 as long as broad, 23 length of pronotum, 1.63 breath of pronotum. Genitalia. Aedeagus (Fig. 7) X-shaped, median lobe with two branches, each with an acute angle at the base, apodemes 23 longer than median lobe in basal 1/6 fused as apodemal bridge; tegmen (Fig. 8) with long apodeme, apically with lateral process, Y-shaped. Female: Length (excluding head and rostrum): 3.9 mm. width: 1.8 mm. Head (Fig. 1) subglobular, with sparse, fine punctures; frons with transverse sulcus between eyes. Rostrum (Fig. 1) arcuate, cylindrical, parallel-sided in dorsal view, 3.53 as long as broad, 0.953 length of pronotum, basal 6/7 with dense, ovate punctures, apical 1/7 shiny, not punctate; scrobes straight, extending from basal 3/8 to base of rostrum. Antennae (Fig. 2) geniculate, inserted at 1/3 from base of rostrum; scape clavate, 3.63 as long as broad; funicle 5-segmented, 0.83 length of scape, segment 1 ovate, 1.33 as long as broad, segment 2 conical, 0.93 as long as broad, segments 3–5 transverse; club ovate, 1.43 as long as broad, 0.833 length of funicle, apex obliquely truncate, tomentose. Eyes lateral, ovate, and convex. Prothorax (Fig. 3) subcylindrical, 1.053 as long as broad, basal 3/5 parallel-sided, apical 2/5 converging arcuately, with strong constriction at apical 1/4; apical margin and basal margin subtruncate; disc with large, round punctures, apical margin with small, shallow, round punctures and 2 tomentose tubercles. Scutellum (Fig. 4) tiny, scutellate, shiny. Elytra oblong-ovate, 1.453 as long as broad, 23 length of pronotum, 1.443 width of pronotum; basal margin concaved arcuately, humeri obsolete, lateral margins convex arcuately, broadest at 1/3 from base; striae broad, with dense, large, ovate punctures becoming smaller apically; intervals much narrower than striae, intervals 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 strongly carinate, with sparse yellowish brown vestisure, other intervals flat and glabrous, intervals 3 and 9, 5 and 7 connate behind respectively. Mesosternum with dense, large, round punctures at middle, both sides smooth and glabrous. Mesepisternum triangular, with large, round punctures anteriorly, smooth and glabrous posteriorly. Mesepimeron irregular quadrilateral, smooth and glabrous, lower edge with large, round punctures posteriorly. Metasternum convex at middle, with sparse, small, round punctures, both sides with dense, large, round punctures, slightly depressed at middle of posterior margin. Legs short, stout; Procoxae contiguous, mesocoxae narrowly separated, metacoxae widely separated; femora clavate, compressed, with large, dense, ovate punctures; tibiae subrectate, sulcate and carinate laterally, apex with inner flange and arcuate uncus; tarsi linear, abbreviated, segments 1–3 tomentose beneath, segment 3 simple, not bilobed, segment 5 shorter than segments 1–3, with 2 claws at apex, claws separated, small, curved. Abdomen with sternites 1–2 connate, convex at middle, other sternites separated; sternites 1, 2, 5 with large, dense, round punctures, sternites 3–4 glabrous, not punctate; sternite 2 longer than sternites 3–4, sternite 5 longer than sternites 3–4. Genitalia. Sternum VIII (Fig. 6) with apodeme 1.93 longer than plate, plate apically with 2 lobes, each bares 3 setae. Etymological Note. The specific name is derived from the presence of scutellum, which serves as the specific character. Remarks. This new species and S. shirozui Morimoto share the following characters: Rostrum separated from head by a shallow transverse depression between eyes; antennae with 5-segmented funicle and club obliquely truncated; eyes lateral, ovate; elytra with reduced humeri. The new species differs from S. shirozui in the following characters: Scutellum present and tiny; apical margin of pronotum punctate with 2 tomentose tubercles; antennae stout and more compact., Published as part of He, Tongli, Zhang, Runzhi & Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., 2003, A New Species Of The Genus Synommatoides Morimoto From China (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), pp. 123-126 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (2) on pages 123-125, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2003)057[0123:ansotg]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4924137

Deltochilum hyypponum Buquet. Ucumari Regional Park (48449N, 758369W), Dept. Risaralda, Colombia. Could forest, 2,400 m. 29.III.95 Feeding Observations. One individual was observed manipulating a 2.5 cm diameter ball of mammal fur. Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomiini: Bdelyrus laplanadae Cook. La Planada Natural Reserve (18179N, 788159W), Dept. Nario, Colombia. Could forest, 1,800 m. 12.VI.94. Feeding Observations. Eight individuals were feeding on decayed fruit of Qouraribae (Bombacaceae) inside the forest. During an entire year (1993) of sampling in this locality only one individual was captured in pitfall traps baited with human excrement., Published as part of He, Tongli, Zhang, Runzhi & Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., 2003, A New Species Of The Genus Allaeotes Pascoe From China (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), pp. 127-131 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (2) on pages 131-132, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2003)057[0127:ansotg]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4924141

Deltochilum valgum acropyge Bates. Magdalena River Valley (48159N, 748509W), Dept. Tolima, Colombia. Dry forest, 250 m. 18.XI.95. Feeding Observations. Seven D. acropyge valgum were captured on one live millipede within the forest. This corroborates Cano' s observations on D. acropyge valgum in the tropical lowland of Guatemala (1998) and extends its known southern distributional limit, Barro Colorado Island, south to Colombia., Published as part of He, Tongli, Zhang, Runzhi & Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., 2003, A New Species Of The Genus Allaeotes Pascoe From China (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), pp. 127-131 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (2) on page 131, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2003)057[0127:ansotg]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4924141

Canthidium aff. moestum Magdalena River Valley (48159N, 748509W), Dept. Tolima, Colombia. Dry forest, 250 m. 11.XI.95. Feeding Observations. Two individuals were captured on one live millipede in the forest interior., Published as part of He, Tongli, Zhang, Runzhi & Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., 2003, A New Species Of The Genus Allaeotes Pascoe From China (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), pp. 127-131 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2003)057[0127:ansotg]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4924141

Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. (2001): A New Species Of Shigizo Morimoto From Borneo (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 55 (2): 181-184, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2001)055[0181:ansosm]2.0.co;2

Curculio francisi Pelsue and Zhang, New Species Figs. 19–20, 59–61 HOLOTYPE. China. Xishuangbanna: male[China / Yunnan /Xishuangbanna/2,600 M/ 24 September 1957 / S. Wong] (IZAS) PARATYPE. (1) China. male[China / Yunnan / Xishuangbanna /2,600 M/ 24 September 1957 / S. Wong] (FWPC) Recognition Characters. Medium­sized, elongate, oval; derm uniformly fuscorufous; rostrum, 0.56 as long as body; frons broad, 0.34 as wide as head across eyes; hind femoral tooth medium­sized; hind femur lacks proximolateral sulcus; elytra with moderately prominent humeri and feeble white macula, intervals 5–7 with white fascia past midpoint; crosshatched setae are short, stout, and piceous. Description. Male: Length: 3.6–3.7 mm (mean 5 3.65). Width: 1.7–1.8 mm (mean 5 1.75). Head: Medium­sized, moderately convex; punctures small, clothed with fine, short, narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales; anteroventral macula of short, narrow, elongate, white scales ventral to eyes and rostrum; eyes round, large, finely faceted; frons broad, 0.34 as wide as head across eyes; clothed with longer, narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales; interocular fovea lacking. Rostrum: Length: 2.0– 2.2 mm (mean 5 2.1), 0.56 as long as body; cylindrical, thick at base, gradually tapering to apex; sides subparallel to antennal insertion becoming narrower, then expanding slightly at apex; straight to antennal insertion, then gradually curving to apex; median dorsal carina from frons to antennal insertion; punctures small, oval, in line to antennal insertion; base with few narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales; scrobe lateral; scape inserted in apical half. Antennae: Length: Scape 1.0 mm; Funiculus: segment one 0.25 mm, two 0.175 mm; three 0.1 mm, four 0.1, five 0.1 mm, six 0.1 mm, seven 0.1 mm; club 0.4 mm; funicle 1.5 mm; scape 0.67 as long as funicle; scape and funicle rubiginous; vestiture of sparse, narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales, with longer, erect, short setae toward apex of each segment; club medium, oval, compact, acuminate, clothed with fine velvety pile, few erect setae; club as long as funicular segments 4–7. Thorax: Length: 1.0– 1.1 mm (mean 5 1.05). Width: 1.3–1.5 mm (mean 5 1.4). 0.77 as long as broad; disc margins subparallel, broadly rounded to constriction; slightly convex laterally; disc punctures small with clavate, testaceous mixed with few white scales; ventrally, clavate scales mostly white; base sinuate with basal declivity; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales; scutellum medium, as long as broad, clothed with white scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum and metepisternum clothed with clavate, ochroleucus scales. Elytra: Length: 2.1 mm. Striae narrow, deep, with narrow, elongate, ochroleucus scales; humeri feebly prominent, with basal declivity angled to pronotum; disc flat in lateral view; intervals broad, flat, clothed, with narrow, clavate, ochroleucus scales, with a feeble macula of narrow, clavate, white scales behind humeri and a feeble fascia of white scales on intervals 5–7 distad of midpoint; scattered white scales towards apex, with fuscous scales between fascia; crosshatched setae short, stout, and piceous. Legs: Length of hind femur 1.6–1.7 mm (mean 5 1.65), tooth medium­sized, with acute apex, lacks proximolateral sulcus; profemoral tooth small, mesofemoral tooth small, but larger than profemoral tooth; vestiture of long, narrow, mixed ochroleucus and white scales; tibiae straight except near apex becoming sinuate, apical comb ascending on posterior margin; pro­ and mesouncus large, longer than tarsal claw, metauncus as long as tarsal claw. Abdomen: Sternite 1 not as long as 2 behind coxal cavity, with flat median; sternite 2 as long as 3 ascending to 3; 4 not as long as 3; sternite 5 as long as 3 and 4 combined, emarginate apex; vestiture of all sternites with elongate, narrow, alternating ochroleucus and white scales. Pygidium: Exposed, medium, clothed with narrow, elongate, seta­like ochroleucus scales. Genitalia: Median lobe of aedeagus 0.6 mm in length, 0.2 mm in width, sides parallel to round apices with deep central slit (Fig. 60), thickened, sharply arced to apex in lateral view; aedeagal apodeme 0.9 mm in length (Figs. 59–61). Distribution. China, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 24 September 1957, S. Wong. Remarks. This species resembles C. marioi n. sp. in that it has a short median vitta on interval one from the scutellum to the macula of white scales at midpoint, but differs in that it is smaller in size, with shorter rostrum, different dorsal shape of pronotum and male genitalia. The species is named in honor of senior author's grandson Frankie., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on pages 486-488, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281

Curculio tonkinensis (Heller) Figs. 5–6, 40–43, Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on page 480, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281

Balaninus scutellaris Chevrolat 1878: XXXII. Recognition Characters. Medium­sized, broadly oval, robust; derm fuscous; narrow, elongate, testaceous and ocherous bifid scales on pronotum; narrow, elongate, clavate, whites scales in elytral striae some bifid most with tapering truncated apices; intervals with narrow, elongate, clavate scales, with truncated to acute apices; scutellum longer than broad, oval, white; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent. Description. Male: Length: 4.7–4.8 mm (mean 5 4.75). Width: 2.6–2.8 mm (mean 5 2.7). Head: Small, short, slightly convex, punctures small, with short, narrow, elongate, ocherous scales, becoming longer toward frons. Frons, 0.25 as broad as head across eyes, with narrow, elongate, ocherous scales. Rostrum: Length: 2.5–2.6 mm (mean 5 2.55), 0.53 as long as body; broad to antennal insertion, 0.25 mm, then narrowing abruptly, tapering to apex of 0.15 mm in width; cylindrical; slightly arced from base to apex; central dorsal carina with lateral shallow punctures flanked by lateral carinae; scrobe ventral; scape inserted at midpoint. Antennae: Length: Scape 1.0 mm. Funiculus: segment one 0.35 mm, two 0.3 mm, three 0.2 mm, four 0.2 mm, five 0.15 mm, six 0.1 mm, seven 0.15 mm, club 0.5 mm; funicle 1.7 mm; scape 0.59 as long as funicle; sparsely clothed with elongate, semierect, seta­like scales; club elongate, oval, velvety with few, fine, erect setae, not as long as funicular segments 4–7. Thorax: Length: 1.3 mm. Width 1.7–1.8 mm (mean 5 1.75); disc margins subparallel, broadly rounded to narrow constriction, punctures small, close together, clothed with narrow, elongate, bifid, white and ochraceous scales forming a whorl ending with a small, cretaceous macula, toward base; clothed with narrow, elongate, bifid, white and ochraceous scales; convex in lateral view; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent, clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales; scutellum longer than broad not impressed, oval, clothed with white to cretaceous scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum, metepisternum clothed with diffuse mix of dirty white and ochraceous scales; procoxae clothed with narrow, elongate, white scales. Elytra: Length: 3.0 mm. Striae deep, with deep punctures having elongate, clavate, bifid, cretaceous to ochraceous scales; basal scutellar declivity; humeri prominent, rounded; disc convex in lateral view; intervals with confused mixture of elongate, clavate, white to ochraceous scales some bifid some with acute apices; proximal to midpoint, disc with fascia of fuscous scales; at midpoint fascia of cretaceous scales, followed by macula of fuscous scales, with confused mix of white scales to apex; interval one, with short, erect, ochraceous, crosshatched setae from distal fourth to apex. Legs: Length of hind femur 2.4–2.5 mm (mean 5 2.45), broadened with small­sized, acute tooth; pro­ and mesofemoral tooth small, acute; all femora clothed with narrow, elongate, white to ochraceous scales; tibiae sinuate, thick toward apex, with apical comb ascending; pro­ and mesouncus longer than tarsal claw, metauncus small. Abdomen: Sternite 2 longer than 1 behind coxal cavity, ascending to 3; sternite 1 with broad, shallow, median declivity; sternites 3 and 4 equal in length, combined longer than 5; all sternites clothed with narrow, elongate, dirty white scales; sternite 5 triangular, with shallow apical concavity. Pygidium: Small, feebly visible. Genitalia: Median lobe of aedeagus 0.6 mm in length, 0.2 mm in width, dorsally margins parallel, thin slightly narrowed to truncated apex; laterally gradually arced, thin; aedeagal apodeme 0.7 mm (Figs. 62–64). Female: Length: 4.3–5.0 mm (mean 5 4.67). Width: 2.4–2.9 mm (mean 5 2.7). Rostrum: Length: 2.4–2.8 mm (mean 5 2.64). Antenna: Length: Scape 0.85 mm. Funiculus: segment one 0.35 mm, two 0.3 mm, three 0.2 mm, four 0.15 mm, five 0.15 mm, six 0.15 mm, seven 0.15 mm, club 0.5 mm. Funicle 1.45 mm; scape 0.59 as long as funicle. Thorax: Length: 1.2–1.5 mm (mean 5 1.27). Width: 1.7–2.0 mm (mean 5 1.87). Elytra: Length: 2.9–3.2 mm (mean 5 3.1). W shaped fuscous macula in basal area of disc. Legs: Length of hind femur 2.3–2.5 mm (mean 5 2.4), tooth large­sized, wedge shaped; one specimen femur exceeds apex of abdomen others equal to apex. Abdomen: Sternite 2 strongly ascending to 3; sternite 5 with apical median declivity. Pygidium: Concealed. Genitalia: Spermatheca ramus, knob like, erect; collum projecting out to rounded apex; cornu thickened basally tapering to narrower rounded apex (Fig. 65). Distribution. China: Hainan Island, Nodoa, 28 June 1935, 10 July 1935, J. L. Gressitt. Five specimens examined (CASC), compared with specimens determined by Marshall in the BMNH. Remarks. This species is similar to Curculio sauteri Heller. The holotype of C. sauteri is slightly smaller than specimens of either C. kojimai and C. scutellaris and the scales are somewhat lighter in color than either of the other two species, which are almost identical in external morphology, even in measurements. However, without comparing male genitalia of all three species we cannot at this time consider them conspecific., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on pages 488-489, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281, {"references":["Chevrolat, L. A. A. 1878. Curculionides Nouveaux de Chine et du Japan. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 21: XXXI - XXXIV."]}

Curculio scutellaris (Chevrolat) Figs. 21–22, 62–65, Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on page 488, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281

Curculio alboscutellatus (Roelofs) Figs. 9–10, 47–49, Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281

Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., Zhang, Runzhi (2000): A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4): 467-496, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2

Curculio chevrolati (Faust) Figs. 27–28, 73–75 Balaninus interruptus Chevrolat 1878: XXXII. Balaninus chevrolati Faust 5 (interruptus Chevrolat nec Kirsch) 1893: 146. Recognition Characters. Medium­sized, elongate oval; derm piceous; rostrum, 0.59 as long as body; hind femoral tooth large­sized, wedge shaped; elytra with macular fascia of narrow, elongate, white, scales at midpoint on intervals 2–10; scutellum flanked by macula of narrow, elongate, white scales; scutellum piceous; interval one with short distal vitta of clavate, cretaceous scales. Description. Male. Length: 4.2–4.3 mm (mean 5 4.25). Width: 2.2–2.3 mm (mean 5 2.25). Head: Medium­sized, moderately convex; punctures small, shallow, and glabrous; eyes large, moderately convex, finely faceted, partially covered by anterior margin of pronotum. Frons broad, 0.23 as broad as head across eyes; small, deep interocular fovea; Rostrum: Length: 2.5 mm; 0.59 as long as body; cylindrical; margins subparallel, broad at base gradually tapering to apex; dorsally three carinae from frons to antennal insertion, punctures between carinae oval; straight to antennal insertion then gradually curved to apex; scrobe ventral; scape inserted in apical half. Antennae: Length: Scape 1.1 mm; Funiculus: segment one 0.3 mm, two 0.25 mm, three 0.15 mm, four 0.1 mm, five 0.1 mm, six 0.1 mm, seven 0.15 mm, club 0.5 mm; funicle 1.3 mm; scape 0.85 as long as funicle; clothed with elongate, cretaceous scales; club elongate, oval, compact, acuminate, clothed with velvety pile, with few erect setae, longer than funicular segments 4–7. Thorax: Length: 1.4 mm. Width: 1.8 mm; disc with indication of median longitudinal carina, margins subparallel, broadly rounded to constriction; almost as broad at base as elytra; disc glabrous except for anterior cretaceous macula on pleuron just behind head, basolateral macula continuous with fascia on elytra past scutellum forming V shaped white fascia; anteroventral macula of short, broad, clavate, cretaceous scales between procoxae; mesosternal intercoxal process very prominent, densely clothed with short, broad, cretaceous scales; scutellum small­sized piceous, as long as broad, with short, narrow, elongate, testaceous scales; mesepimeron densely clothed with short, broad, clavate, cretaceous scales; mesepisternum sparsely clothed with broad, clavate, cretaceous scales; metepisternum clothed with short, broad, piceous scales, anteriorly, with dense macula of broad, clavate, cretaceous scales, posteriorly; procoxae clothed with cretaceous scales. Elytra: Length: 2.5 mm. Striae deep, with deep punctures, clothed with small, narrow, elongate, piceous scales; shallow scutellar declivity; humeri prominent, rounded; disc slightly convex in lateral view; intervals broad, flat clothed with piceous scales; cretaceous macular fascia on each side of scutellum on intervals 1–4 meeting basal macula on pronotum above intervals 5–8; at midpoint macular fascia of clavate cretaceous scales on intervals 2–10, in some specimens interval four lacks macula; short vitta on interval one of short, broad, cretaceous scales in distal quarter to apex; crosshatched setae long, erect and piceous. Legs: Length of hind femur 2.1 mm, tooth large­sized, wedge shaped, with proximolateral sulcus from base to club; pro and mesofemoral tooth small; all legs clothed with narrow, elongate, cretaceous scales; tibiae straight, margins subparallel; pro­, mesouncus small not as long as tarsal claw, with acute apex, metauncus small with blunt apex. Abdomen: Sternite 1 longer than 2 behind coxal cavity; sternites 1 and 2 with shallow median declivity; sternite 2 ascending to 3; 3 and 4 equal in length, combined exceed sternite 5 in length; sternite 5 emarginate with apical declivity, with fringe of ochraceous seta­like scales ventrally and lateral tufts of cretaceous seta­like scales dorsally; all sternites clothed laterally, with broad, clavate, cretaceous scales and medially with narrow, elongate, cretaceous scales. Pygidium: Small, barely visible with cretaceous seta­like scales. Genitalia: Median lobe of aedeagus 1.0 mm in length, 0.2 mm in width, slender with thin margins dorsally tapering to narrow acute apex, in lateral view apex curving posteriorly; aedeagal apodeme 0.8 mm in length (Figs. 73–75). Distribution. China: Hainan Island Province, Dwa Bi, 20 July 1935, Ta Hian, 15 June 1935, J. L. Gressitt; Borneo: Kuching, 1910, Lewis. Two specimens were examined on loan from CASC, four from BPBM, and one labeled Curculio interruptus Kirsch and two labeled C. chevrolati on loan from BMNH. Remarks. This species looks similar to Curculio klapperichi Voss, but differs in length of hind femur exceeding apex of abdomen and placement of basolateral cretaceous macula on pronotum, which extend above the seventh interval of the elytra. Curculio nagaoi Morimoto (1981) also looks similar except for cretaceous scaled scutellum., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on pages 494-495, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281, {"references":["Chevrolat, L. A. A. 1878. Curculionides Nouveaux de Chine et du Japan. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 21: XXXI - XXXIV.","Morimoto, K. 1981. On some Japanese Curculioninae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Esakia 17: 109 - 130."]}

Curculio gressitti Pelsue and Zhang, New Species Figs. 3–4, 37–39 HOLOTYPE. China. Mokansan: male[China /Che Kiang/Mokansan/ 22 September 1927 / D. E. Wright] (CASC). PARATYPES. (9) China. female[China / Hainan Id./ Ta Han / 25 June 1935 / L. Gressitt] (CASC) (8) [China] (BMNH). Recognition Characters. Elongate oval; Derm fuscous; rostrum with seven dorsal carinae from frons to insertion of scape; elytral interval one with vitta of piceous scales to apex; scutellum large, scutate with cretaceous scales; pronotum broadly rounded to constriction 0.78 as wide as body; male with metauncus bifid. Description. Male: Length: 4.1 mm. Width: 2.2 mm. Head: Small­sized; finely punctate with short, testaceous scales; eyes large, finely faceted; frons narrower than broadest width of rostrum, 0.28 as wide as head across eyes; clothed with narrow, elongate, testaceous scales; with oval interocular fovea. Rostrum: Length: 2.5 mm, 0.61 as long as body; cylindrical; margins subparallel, base thick, gradually tapering to antennal insertion; 7 median dorsal carinae including carina dorsad of scrobe from frons to insertion of scape; straight from frons to insertion of scape, then slightly arced to apex; scrobe ventral: scape inserted in apical half. Antennae: Length: Scape 1.1 mm; Funiculus: segment one 0.25 mm, two 0.25 mm, three 0.15 mm, four 0.1 mm, five 0.1 mm, six 0.1 mm, seven 0.1 mm, club 0.45 mm; funicle 1.15 mm; scape 0.96 as long as funicle; clothed with semierect fuscous seta­like scales toward apex of each segment; club oval, compact, acuminate, segments 1–3 similar in length, 4 short, with acute apex, clothed with short, fine pile; as long as funicular segments 4–7. Thorax: Length: 1.2 mm. Width: 1.7 mm. 0.78 as wide as body; lateral margins broadly rounded tapering to constriction; disc finely punctate, punctures separated by ridge with elongate, truncated, testaceous scales; feebly convex in lateral view from basal declivity to base of elytra; with feeble postocular lobes; base sinuate; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent, clothed with clavate, white scales; scutellum large, longer than broad, clothed with cretaceous scales; mesepimeron, mesepisternum and metepisternum evenly clothed with clavate, testaceous scales; anteroventral macula of white scales above procoxae; procoxae clothed with elongate, white scales. Elytra: Length: 2.6 mm. Striae rather deep, with white, clavate scales emerging from punctures; moderate scutellar declivity; humeri rounded; intervals broad, flat, clothed with narrow, elongate, testaceous scales, interval 1 with vitta of piceous scales from scutellum to apex; crosshatched setae prominent and piceous; laterally distad of midpoint with few white scales forming feeble oblique fascia across intervals 6–10. Legs: Length of hind femur 2.1 mm, tooth moderate, acute; tooth on pro and mesofemur small; all femora clothed with narrow, elongate, truncated, testaceous scales; two median carinae from base to club both externally and internally; hind tibiae feebly sinuate, apical comb ascending one quarter of posterior angle, vestiture of narrow, elongate, white, scales; pro­ and mesouncus large as long as tarsal claw, metauncus bifid. Abdomen: Sternite 1 not as long as 2 behind coxal cavity; all sternites evenly clothed with narrow, elongate, testaceous scales with truncate apices; sternite 2 ascending to 3; sternite 3 longer than 4, 3 and 4 combined longer than 5; apex of sternite 5 truncate, with 2 apical tufts of testaceous seta­like scales. Pygidium: Small clothed with testaceous setae. Genitalia: Median lobe of aedeagus 0.7 in length 0.2 in width, wider towards the apex than at the base dorsally, rather thin in lateral view, flat to gradually arced apex; apodeme 0.9 in length (Figs. 37–39). Female: Length: 3.7 mm. Width: 2.0 mm. Rostrum: Length: 2.7 mm. Antennae: Length: Scape 1.15 mm, funicle 1.1 mm, scape slightly longer than funicle. Thorax: Length 1.1 mm. Width: 1.5 mm. Mesepimeron, with dorsal macula of cretaceous scales. Elytra: Length 2.3 mm. Oblique lateral fascia of cretaceous scales across intervals 6–10 distad of midpoint. Abdomen: Sternite 1 as long 2 behind coxal cavity with broad shallow median declivity with truncate apex; sternites 1–4 with lateral macula of clavate, cretaceous scales; medially scales are aeneous; sternite 5 scales narrower and shorter, sternites 3 and 4 with central vitta of white scales. Genitalia: Spermatheca: not dissected. Distribution. China: Chi Kiang (Zhejiang) Province., Mokansan, 22 September 1927, Mrs. Dora E. White; Hainan Island, Ta Han, 25 June 1935, J. L. Gressitt. Remarks. This species resembles Curculio nigramacula Roelofs. However, it differs in having a longer vitta on interval one of the elytra and a longer rostrum as well as differences in male genitalia. This species is named in honor of eminent entomologist J. L. Gressitt, who collected this species and many of the specimens used in this study., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on pages 479-480, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281

Frank W. Pelsue, Jr., Zhang, Runzhi (2000): A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2): 125-142, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2

Curculio flavescens (Roelofs) Figs. 14–15, 35, Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 125-142 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on page 133, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900225

Curculio cristinae Pelsue and Zhang, new species Figs. 7, 20–21, 36 Holotype. China. Xishuangbanna: female[China / Yunnan /Xishuangbanna/2200 M/ 21 September 1957 / L. Zang] (IZAS) Recognition Characters. Broadly oval; hind femur exceeding apex of abdomen; abdominal sternites one and two densely clothed with clavate decumbent cretaceous scales; pronotum broadly convex in lateral view; disk with a centrobasal defuse macula of narrow elongate aeneous and a few clavate decumbent cretaceous scales mixed in a whorl; elytra with a centrolateral fascia of clavate decumbent cretaceous scales on intervals six through eight. Description. Female. Length: 5.1 mm. Width: 3.1 mm. Head. Small, slightly convex; derm fuscorufous; punctures small; macula of small, decumbent, white scales under rostrum between eyes; vestiture of narrow, elongate, decumbent, aeneous scales; eyes large, round, finely faceted; frons 0.21 as broad as head across eyes; clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent, aeneous scales; small median slit like interocular fovea. Rostrum. Length: 4.5 mm, 0.89 as long as body; dorsal surface fuscous from frons to apex, lateral surface testaceous; cylindrical; sides subparallel gradually tapering to apex; gradually emerging or continuous with head; three dorsal carinae from frons to antennal insertion; oval punctures between carinae; emerging rather straight for the first two thirds of its length then broadly curving to apex; scrobe lateral; scape inserted past one third of its length. Antennae. Length of scape 1.4 mm, funicular segment one 0.4 mm, two 0.5 mm, three 0.3 mm, four 0.2 mm, five 0.2 mm, six 0.2 mm, seven 0.2 mm, club 0.55 mm; funicle 2.0 mm; scape 0.70 as long as funicle; derm fuscous; moderately clothed with elongate, decumbent, white scales with longer semierect setae towards the apex of segments three through seven; club elongate, acuminate, clothed with fine setae, few erect setae, not as long as funicular segments four through seven. Thorax. Length: 1.5 mm. Width: 2.3 mm, 0.66 as long as body; derm fuscous; disc sides parallel to past midpoint then broadly rounded to constriction; laterally subimpressed; in lateral view dorsal surface somewhat convex; broader than long; base sinuate; punctures small, oval to round, close together; clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent, aeneous scales mixed with clavate decumbent cretaceous scales; there is a dorsal basocentral diffuse macula in a whorl shaped of golden and a few cretaceous decumbent scales. Anteroventral below head pronotum clothed with short, broad, clavate, decumbent, cretaceous scales; mesosternal intercoxal process very prominent one half anvil shaped, clothed with clavate, decumbent, cretaceous scales; scutellum large with bright cretaceous scales; mesepimeron with dorsal fringe of clavate, decumbent, cretaceous scales and aeneous scales mixed with cretaceous scales ventrally; mesepisternum sparsely clothed with clavate, decumbent, aeneous and a few cretaceous scales; metepisternum narrowing toward distal end clothed with few cretaceous scales anteriorly and aeneous scales posteriorly; procoxae clothed with narrow, elongate, some broad clavate decumbent cretaceous scales. Elytra. Length: 3.5 mm. Derm fuscous; striae deep, broad with scattered clavate cretaceous scales emerging from deep punctures; basal declivity around scutellum; humeri rounded; intervals broad, flat, clothed with elongate, aeneous, decumbent scales with cretaceous scales intermixed; centrolaterally with a cretaceous fascia on intervals six through eight; disc flat in lateral view; crosshatch setae long, erect starting out aeneous then becoming piceous toward apex. Legs. Length of hind femur 2.8 mm, exceeds apex of abdomen, tooth large, thorn shaped, with proximolateral sulcus; pro­ and mesofemoral tooth medium, not as long as hind femoral tooth; derm fuscous; all femora clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent aeneous and cretaceous scales; hind tibia sinuate with dense apical comb extending up tibia one quarter of its length; pro­ and mesouncus large longer than tarsal claw; metauncus small. Abdomen. Derm fuscous; first sternite longer than two behind coxal cavity; second sternite ascending to three; sternites three and four combined longer than five; apex of sternite five acute; sternites one and two with lateral macula of clavate, decumbent, cretaceous scales, remaining sternites with narrow elongate, decumbent, fuscous scales. Pygidium. covered. Genitalia. Spermatheca: Ramus tilted, rounded; collum rounded defined from ramus; cornu thickened basely tapering to narrowed slightly turned up apex (Fig. 36). Plant Associations. Unknown. Distribution. China. Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 2200 M., 21 September 1957, L. Zang Collector. Unique., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 125-142 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on pages 138-139, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900225

Curculio fausti Pelsue and Zhang, new species Figs. 22–23, 32–34 Holotype. China. Emei Shan: male[China / Sichuan /Emei Shan/550–750 M/ 01 May 1957 / Z. Wang] (IZAS) Recognition Characters. Second segment of funiculus longer than first; elytral striae deep with flat intervals, clothed with elongate decumbent testaceous scales, with two feeble dirty white fascia past the midpoint. Hind femur exceeding apex of abdomen. Derm fuscous except for the fuscorufous antennae. Description. Male. Length: 4.7 mm. Width: 2.5 mm. Head. Small slightly convex; punctures small with small, narrow, elongate, testaceous scales; eyes large, broadly oval, moderate facets; frons 0.23 as broad as head across eyes, with longer, narrow, elongate, decumbent testaceous scales; interocular fovea lacking. Rostrum. Length: 3.0 mm, 0.64 as long as body; cylindrical; sides subparallel gradually tapering from base to apex; gradually emerging from head; median carina from frons to midway between base and antennal insertion; punctures oval from frons to antennal insertion; gradually and evenly curved; scrobe lateral; scape inserted a midpoint. Antennae. Length of scape 1.4 mm, funicular segment one 0.33 mm, two 0.44 mm, three 0.25 mm, four 0.15 mm, five 0.15 mm, six 0.15 mm, seven 0.15 mm, club 0.50 mm; funicle 1.62 mm; scape 0.87 as long as funicle; funicular segments essentially glabrous except for long sparse setae toward apex of each segment maintaining same thickness from segment one through seven; club compact oval, vestiture velvety with few erect setae, as long as funicular segments four through seven combined. Thorax. Length: 1.4 mm. Width: 2.0 mm, 0.70 as long as broad; disc slightly convex in lateral view, sides broadly rounded gradually tapering to constriction; impressed laterally; disc punctures small and close together, with narrow, elongate, decumbent, testaceous scales, no defined macula; basal margin sinuate; indication of a middorsal carina; mesosternal intercoxal process feeble or absent; scutellum scutate, as broad as long, with narrow, elongate, decumbent, white scales, set in declivity; mesepimeron, mesepisternum and metepisternum clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales. Elytra. Length: 3.0 mm. Striae deep and prominent; humeri slightly prominent, rounded; intervals broad, flat and densely clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent, testaceous scales, faint indication of two fascia past the midline; disc flat in lateral view; crosshatch setae short, decumbent, piceous, from basal third to apex of elytra. Legs. Length of hind femur 2.5 mm, exceeds apex of abdomen; tooth on all femora moderate in size and wedge shaped; hind femur with two lateral carinae from base to club; derm fuscous; vestiture of elongate densely packed with testaceous scales; hind tibia sinuate with densely packed testaceous scales; pro­ and mesouncus moderate as long as tarsal claw, metauncus small not as long as tarsal claw. Abdomen. Sternite one as long as two behind coxal cavity; sternite two ascending to three; sternites three and four equal in length, longer than five combined; five with apical margin deeply emarginate with lateral tufts of white setae; vestiture of all sternites of narrow, elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales. Pygidium. Small, compactly clothed with narrow, testaceous setae. Genitalia. median lobe 1.3 mm in length, 0.3 mm in width; apodeme 0.9 mm in length; median lobe wider basely, gradually tapering toward apex with dorsal sclerotized margin widening toward distal end forming a slot then broadening prior to the bend to a slightly twisted apex (Fig. 32). Plant Associations. Unknown. Distribution. China. Sichuan Province, Emei Mt., 550–1,000 m., 01 May 1957, Z. Wang Collector. Unique., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 125-142 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on pages 139-141, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900225

Curculio vivianae Pelsue and Zhang, new species Figs. 5, 18–19, 29– 31 Holotype. China. Xishuangbanna: male[Yunnan /Xishuangbanna/900 M/ 26 September 1957 / L. Zang] (IZAS) Paratype. (1) China. female[Yunnan \ Xishuangbanna \900 M\ 26 September 1957 \ L. Zang] (FWPC) Recognition Characters. Oval; rostrum abruptly emerging from head in male and female; second segment of funiculus longer than first segment; hind femur exceeds apex of abdomen; color fuscopiceous with dirty white elongate decumbent scales; mesosternal intercoxal process prominent; female slightly larger than male. Description. Male. Length: 5.6 mm. Width: 2.8 mm. Head. Moderately broad, slightly convex; punctures small set in rugae, vestiture of small, narrow, elongate, decumbent ocherous scales; macula of small decumbent white scales under eyes; eyes large, oval, finely faceted; frons 0.18 as broad as head across eyes; small interocular foveae; short median carina to base of rostrum. Rostrum. Length: 3.7 mm, 0.66 as long as body; cylindrical, sides almost parallel, smooth, glabrous; abruptly emerging from head; large oval punctures extending down to insertion of antennae; gradually arced from base to apex; scrobe lateral; scape inserted at midpoint. Antennae. Length: Scape 1.7 mm; funicular segment one 0.3mm; two 0.4 mm; three 0.2 mm; four 0.2 mm; five 0.25; six 0.15; seven 0.2 mm; club 0.55 mm; funicle 1.7 mm, as long as scape; essentially glabrous with long narrow setae toward apex of each segment; club elongate compact; not as long as segments five through seven combined, vestiture velvety with few erect setae. Thorax. Length 1.5 mm; width 2.1 mm, 0.72 as long as broad; dorsally sides parallel for over half its length then broadly rounded to constriction; sides impressed laterally, punctures set in crenulations with narrow, elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales; base straight with indication of basal ridge; disc convex in lateral view, punctures small, close together with longer, narrow, elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales; anterioventral macula of broad clavate, decumbent, ocherous scales; mesosternal intercoxal process feebly prominent; scutellum small, longer than broad, set in declivity, clothed with short decumbent dirty white scales; mesepimeron clothed with clavate, decumbent, dirty white scales on dorsal margin; mesepisternum clothed with clavate, decumbent, dirty white scales; metepisternum clothed with narrow, elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales; procoxae clothed with short, clavate, white scales. Elytra. Length: 3.5 mm. Striae deep, punctures with narrow, elongate, decumbent, white scales; shallow declivity around scutellum; humeri prominent; intervals broad, flat and clothed with long narrow, decumbent, dirty white scales with two feeble fascia; disc convex in lateral view; interval one with stout, elongate, crosshatch semierect setae, dirty white to testaceous in last one third of length. Legs. Length of hind femur 2.5 mm, exceeds apex of abdomen, clavate with moderate sized wedge shaped tooth; pro­ and mesofemoral tooth small; vestiture of elongate, dirty, white, decumbent scales; tibia straight; pro­, meso­, and metauncus large, each about same length as long as tarsal claw. Abdomen. Derm fuscous; sternite two longer than one behind coxal cavity; sternite two ascending to three; sternites three and four combined longer than five; sternite five emarginate apically lacking declivity; all sternites clothed with elongate, decumbent, dirty white scales. Pygidium. Exposed with elongate ocherous setae. Genitalia. Median lobe 1.20 mm in length 0.20 mm in width five times as long as broad, sides parallel to near apex (Fig. 29); endophallus yolk shaped; phallotreme emarginate; apex turned down and over, slightly narrowed broadly rounded to nub of a point. Female. Length: 6.5 mm. Width: 3.5 mm. Rostrum. Abruptly emerging from head, missing for most of its length. Prothorax. Length 2.0 mm. Width 2.7 mm. Pygidium. not visible. Genitalia. Spermatheca: Ramus oblong rounded, collum elongate with distal knob, cornu narrowed with turned up apices (Fig. 31). Plant Associations. Unknown. Distribution. China. Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 900 M, 26 September 1957, L. Zang. Two specimens examined., Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Genus Curculio L. From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini), pp. 125-142 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on pages 136-137, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0125:arotgc]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900225

A key to the subtribes and genera of the Curculionini is presented, and two new genera are described: Pseudoculio with Curculio (Balaninus) discreticoxis Marshall, as its type species (new combination); and Megaoculis with Megaoculis egeri, new species, as its type species. Keys to the species of the new genera are provided. Photos of habitus are included for most taxa and of genitalia of the new species. The following taxa are described as new in this paper: subtribes Archariina, new subtribe, Erganiina, new subtribe, and Labaninina, new subtribe; and new species: Pseudoculio barclayi, new species, P. confusicoxis , new species, P. crinitus, new species, P. promissus, new species, P. spiesi, new species, and P. vittatus, new species. Curculio guyanensis Rheinheimer is reassigned to the new genus Megaoculis, new combination. The following genera placed in Incertae sedis in Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal are removed from the tribe: Allocionus Hustache, Balaninorhynchus Fairmaire, Bradyninus Fairmaire, Semicardius Hustache and Trichanthonomus Hustache.

A neotype is described for Balaninus sellatus Marshall, originally based on a unique female specimen, which will be replaced by a male specimen; and four lectotypes are designated for the following species: B. analis Marshall, B. discreticoxis Marshall, B. imitatior Marshall, and B. quincunx Marshall. All species are now in the genus Curculio Linnaeus. Original type specimens were stolen on the Paris Metro.

Watanabesaruzo yunnanensis sp. nov. is described from Yunnan Province, China. It is a peculiar species of Watanabesaruzo Yoshitake et Yamauchi and represents a new record for the genus in China. The genus Watanabesaruzo was erected by Yoshitake and Yamauchi (2002) based on two species, W. taimeii and W. malayanus. A key to the three species is presented. The type specimen is deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

Seasonal population changes in chironomid fauna of an urban concrete-lined flood control channel system were studied from Aug., 1974–Sept., 1976. Benthic samples from 9 stations along a 20-km stretch of the channel system were collected biweekly and air and water temperatures and rainfall were also recorded. Midge larvae of 7 genera were taken. Cricotopus spp., Dicrotendipes sp., and Chironomus spp., in that order, were of quantitative importance; the other 4 genera collectively formed 0–7% of the total monthly-collected larvae. Cricotopus spp. were present year-round, forming >86% of the total midges collected and 65–99% of the monthly totals. Dicrotendipes sp. (densest May–Nov.) were also present throughout the year, but their monthly populations ranged from