76 cuRcuLioxiD.^;. 



species of the genus. Rostrum very deeply and triangularly 

 excised at the apex, the central and lateral carinte very distinct ; 

 mandibles massive and roundly prominent, the left one truncate 

 internally and without any transverse dorsal impression. An- 

 tennce with the scape reaching or exceeding the posterior margin 

 of the eye, the funicle with joint 2 very slightly longer than 1. 

 ProtJiorax as long as broad, gradually narrowed from base to apex, 

 the basal margin faintly bisinuate, with fine shallow and close, but 

 not confluent, punctation, the scaling thinner along the faint and 



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Fig. 23. — Tanymeciis ddoroleiicus, Wied. 



abbreviated central carina. Elytra similar in the t\^'o sexes, com- 

 paratively broad, roundly narrowed behind, the shoulders sloping, 

 the apices having a very short separate mucro, with very fine 

 and shallowly punctured striae, the juxta-sutural ones deeper 

 at apex ; scaling very dense throughout and mingled with dense 

 recumbent setfe. Legs black, with dense greenish white scaling, 

 the tibijB not denticulate internally in either sex. 



Anal segment of $ with a short basal longitudinal bare line on 

 each side, the apex strongly compressed into a sharp point. 



Lenr/th, J 14-15, $ 11^-15 mm.; breadth, J 5|-6, $ 4|- 

 6:j mm. 



Beis'Gal : Chapra (Mackenzie) ; Purneah (O. Paiva — -Ind. Mus.) ; 

 Pusa, Bihar, on Sesamum indicwn (Pusa Coll.). BcitiiA. 



Type in the Copenhagen University Museum. 



33. Tanymecus sciurus, Oliv. (fig. 24, v). 



Curcuho sciurus, Olivier,* Ent. v, 83, 1807, p. 32-3, pi. 24, fig. 337. 

 Tanymecus protervus, Gyllenhal, Schouh. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834, p. 80 



(n. syn.). 



Colour black, with uniform grey or brownish scaling. 

 Eyes short oval, slightly prominent, the space between them as 

 road as the base of the rostrum. Rostrum much broader than 



