82 CUBCULIONID^. 



39. Tanymecus hercules, Deshr. (fig. 24, h). 



Tamnnecus hercules, Desbrochers des Loges,* C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 



1891, p. ccclv. 

 Asemus hermles, Faust, Aim. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894, 



p. 182 (1895). 



Colour bright metallic green, the sides of the protliorax aud 

 ■elytra often with a more or less dense orange-yellow powdering. 



Eyes fairly prominent, broadly ovate, liostrum with a small 

 triangular emargination at the apex, and a fine central carina ; 

 mandibles slightly prominent, the left one sometimes with a 

 curved impressed line. Anteniice with the scape exceeding the 

 ])osterior margin of the eye, the two basal joints of the fuuicle 

 equal. Proihorax about as long as broad, the sides almost parallel 

 from the base to beyond the middle, then narrowed to the apex, 



Fig. 28. — Tanymecus hercules, Deshr., c?. 



the punctation fine and close but not confluent, with no trace of 

 a centriil cariim. Elytra robust, sharply acuminate behind in the 

 S , much less so in the $ , the apices in the (S jointly produced 

 into a long process bearing a tuft of orange hairs, $ A\ith only a 

 short inucro and without orange hairs, with shallow punctate 

 striae, which are scarcely deeper at the apex, stria 9 with a 

 variable impression towards the base ; scaling not sufficiently 

 dense to conceal the shiuing integument of the elytra, the scales 

 elongate and small, the setae vei\y short and depressed. Leys 

 black, with dense green scaling, the tibiaj not denticulate in either 

 sex. 



Anal segment of $ with two basal striae, the apex sharply 

 compressed into a short prominent carina. 



Lenyth, S 17^-1 9|, $ 13-14 mm. ; breadth, S 6|-8, 5 6-7 mm. 



BwEMA : l^wug-ngw {G. Q.Corhett)\ 'Bh^mo {L. Fea). Assam: 

 Sibsagar ; Sylhet, Cachar ; Deju and Silonibari, jV. Lakhimpur 

 (iZ". Stevens) ; Imphal, Manipur (Col. Shales^iear). 



Type in the collection of the late M. Desbrocliers des Loges. 



