86 criicuLio>'iD^. 



]ir. Durgapur, Calcutta {F. H. Gravely — Ind. Mus.). BruMA : 

 Eangoon (H. L. Andrewes); Palon {L. Fea); Prouie {G. Q. 

 Corhdt). SlAM, Jata {teste Faust). 



Tyju 5 in the Stockholm Museum ; also the types of T. lateralis 

 and T. vividiventris. 



45. Tanymecus arenaceus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with uniform dense pale fawn scaling, the scales 

 often having a slight metallic reflexion and being paler at the 

 sides of the elytra; the prothorax with a well-defined narrow 

 dark central stripe, and a faint darker stripe on each side ; mider- 

 parts whitish. 



Eyes oval and very prominent. Bosfrnm evidently broader 

 than long, with a fine central carina, the apex with a shallow 

 incision ; mandibles not prominent, the left one truncate in- 

 ternally and with no dorsal impressed line. Antennce with the 

 scape reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the two basal 

 joints of the funicle equal. ProtJiorax as long as broad, its sides 

 parallel from the apex to the middle and then gradually narrowed 

 to the base, the upper surface smootli, with the sculpturing com- 

 pletely hidden beneath the scaling. Elytra oblong-OA'ate, rather 

 broadly rounded behind, the apices dehiscent but not mucronate, 

 the shoulders prominent and forming an obtuse angle ; when 

 the scaling is intact the striae appear very fine and the shallow 

 punctation is not perceptible, the intervals much broader than 

 the striae, plane and with very short depressed setae, stria 9 not 

 impressed, the postei'ior callus faint. Leys piceous, with rather 

 thin pale scaling and setae, the tibiae not denticulate internally 

 in the $ . 



Anal segment of 5 without the basal lines, not compressed 

 but rounded at the apex. 



Length, 5^ mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Be>^gal : Pusa {H. 21. Lefroy). 



Type 5 in the British Museum. 



46. Tanymecus lentus. Est. (fig. 24, h). 



Asemus lentus, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894, p. 179 

 (1895). 



Colour black, with rather thin scaling (denser laterally) which 

 is variable in colour, being usually grey Avith a greenish or coppery 

 reflexion, but sometimes brownish, especially on the sides of the 

 thorax. 



Eyes moderately prominent, broadly ovate. Rostrum ^ith a 

 rather dee]) angular emargination at the apex and with a low 

 central carina, which is usually divided longitudinally by a fine 

 stria ; mandibles rather prominent and rounded, without any 

 transverse impression. Antennce with the scape reaching the 



