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CURCULIOIilB^. 



36. Tanymecus burmanus, sp. nov. 



Very similar in general aspect to T. chevrolati, Fhs. (with which 

 it was confused b_y Faust), but differing from it in the following 

 particulars : — the scape is longer and when at rest reaches the 

 posterior margin of the eye : the prothorax entirely lacks the 

 central carina and the bare discal spot ; the elytra are more 

 divergent at the apex ; the c? organ is more robust and the lateral 

 outline of its dorsal carina forms a continuous curve, and is not 

 deeply sinuate as in T. chevrolati. 



Length, 8|-9| mm. ; breadth, 2|-3^ mm. 



Burma : Bhamo {Fea) ; Paungde, Tharrawaddy (type) and 

 Prome {O. Q. Corhett). 



Type c? in the British Museum. 



37. Tanymecus andrewesi, Fst. 



Ase7nns andrewesi, Faust,* Ueut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 350. 



Colour shiny black, with either golden brown setcO and thin 

 brown scaling above and dark grey scaling beneath, or with pale 

 golden setse and sparse green scaling above and dense green 

 scaling on the sides and uuderparts. 



Fig. 27. — Tanymecus andrewesi, Fst., §. 



Eyes prominent, broadly oval. Rostrum very shallowly emar- 

 ginate at apex and with a fine central carina ; mandibles not very 

 prominent, the left one with an indistinct curved impression. 

 Antennce with the scape slightly exceeding the eye, the fuuicle 

 with joint 2 longer than 1. Prothoracc longer than broad, sub- 

 cylindrical, narrowed and with a transverse impression at apex, 

 \\ith fine close and scarcely confluent punctation and with no 

 trace of a central carina. Elytra acuminate behind, moi'e sharply 

 so in the S > the apices jointly mucronate, the mucro being a little 



