78 CUECULIONID^. 



the apex and base of equal width, finely coriaceous and with a low 

 narrow centi'al carina. Ehjtra elongate, acuminate behind, the 

 ■shoulders rather narrow, the apices sharply mucronate, finely 

 punctato-striate, the striae a little deeper at the apex, stria 9 not 

 impressed, the posterior callus absent ; the scaling not dense 

 enough to hide the sheen of the elytra, the setae very short 



Fig. 25. — ■Ta»i/mccus schirus, Oliv. 



and depressed. Leys red-brown, with thin grey scaling, the front 

 tibiae denticulate internally in both sexes, the hind pair in the 

 d" only. 



Lenr/tJi, 7,j-10 mm. ; breadth, 2^-4 mm. 



Bengal : Chota Nagpur (Cardon) ; on sugar-cane, Pusa (Lefro;/) ; 

 Chapra {Machenzie — Pusa Coll.). Central Provinces : Patna 

 (Pusa Coll.). 



Type (5 in the Paris Museum; type of T. protervus in the 

 Stockholm Museum. 



34. Tanymecus cephalotes, Fst. (fig. 24, w). 



Asemns cephalotes, Faust, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 351. 



Colour black with brownish grey-scaling, which is uniformly 

 ■dense beneath but thinner on the alternate intervals of the elytra, 

 causing an appearance of light and dark stripes ; the prothorax 

 with a lateral darker subdenuded stripe. 



Eyes narrowly elongate and only slightly prominent. Rostrum 

 very short, broader than long, shallowly emarginate at apex and 

 with a fine central carina ; mandibles not projecting. Antemioi 

 with the scape not reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the 

 funicle with joint 2 much longer than 1. Prothorax as long as 

 broad, cylindrical, scarcely narrower at apex than at base, closely 

 aciculate and without any trace of a central carina. Elytra 

 narrow and elongate, their sides almost parallel to beyond middle, 

 distinctly punctato-striate, the inner striae rather deeper at apex, 

 stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus obsolete ; the setae 



