84 CURCULIONIDiE. 



depressed. Legs piceous, with thiii pale scaling, the tibite very 

 slightly denticulate internally in both sexes. 



Anal segment of $ with the two raised basal lines, and com- 

 pressed at the apex info a sharp prominent point. 



Length, 6 8|-10|, $ 9|-1U mm.; breadth, d 3^-4, 5 3|-5. 

 mm . 



Punjab : Lahore {Lefrog). Bengal : Pusa, on rice and on 

 Calotropis ; Biixa Duars (Pusa Coll.) ; Sahibganj. Deccan. 



Tgpes c? 2 ill the British Museum. 



42. Tanymecus xantlmrus, Chev. 



Cercophorus xantMirus, Chevrolat,* Anu. See. Eut. France, 1880, 

 p. 260. 



Colour black, with dense pale browu setae and mottled with 

 small patches of white scales ; prothorax with only setse on the 

 disk and a lateral stripe of dull orange scales. 



Eges broadly oval and moderately prominent. Bostrum with 

 a small angular emargination at the apex and with a short in- 

 conspicuous central carina (probably hidden normally beneath 

 the scaling); the left mandible with a curved dorsal impression. 

 AntenncE with the scape reaching the posterior margin of the 

 eye, the funicle with joint 1 longer than 2. Prothorax as long 

 as broad, its sides parallel from the base to beyond the middle, 

 then rather strongly narrowed to the apex, with close confluent 

 punctation and a very short narrow smooth central line. Elytra 

 ( c? ) acuminate behind, the apices with a short mucro bearing a 

 tuft of long pale orange hairs, the striae not deeper behind, the 

 punctures large and deep, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior 

 callus absent ; the setse not very short, but recumbent. Legs 

 black, with sparse scaling, the tibice not denticulate. 



Length, 13| mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. 



" India Orientalis " {teste Chevrolat). 



Type (S in the Stockholm Museum. 



43. Tanymecus mixtus, Fst. (fig. 24, e). 



Asemus mixtus, Faust,* Anu. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894, p. 180' 

 (1895). 



Colour black, with pale brownish setae and sparse grey scales, 

 having often a slight metallic reflexion ; the scales sometimes 

 form a more or less distinct lateral stripe on the elytra. 



Eyes, rostrum and antennce as in T. xanihunis, Chev. The 

 other characters also agreeing with that species, except in the- 

 following particulars. Prothorax a little longer than broad and 

 less strongly narrowed at the apex. Elytra with shorter setse 

 and with the stride much less coarsely punctate. Legs with all 

 the tibiae finely denticulate internally. 



Anal segment of $ carinately compressed at the apex, and 

 with the usual basal striae. 



