TAXYMKCDS. 



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basal joiuts of the funicle ecjual. ProiJiorax as bvoad as long, its 

 sides regularly rounded, broadest at the middle, the apex scarcely 

 narrower than the base, the upper surface finely scrobiculate 

 and without any trace of a central carina. Elytra gradually 

 acuminate behind, the apices each with a short divergent mucro ; 

 finely punctato-striate, the strise scarcely deeper at the apex, 

 stria 9 hardly impressed, the posterior callus absent. Lec/s black, 

 with thin brownish grey scaling, all the tibise more or less 

 denticulate internally in the $ . 



Anal segment of 5 with a short basal stria on each side, the 

 apex compressed into a point and with an elongate central fovea. 



<S unknown. 



Length, 15 mm. ; breadth, 5| mm. 



Assam {Le.froij). 



Type 2 in the British Museum. 



50. Tanymecus lacordairei, Fst. (fig. 24, d). 



Asemus lacordairei, Faust,* Aun. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 180, note (1895). 



Colour black, with ratlier thin uniform greenish scaling, the 

 elytra with a very sharply defined white lateral stripe between 

 strise 7 and 9 near the base, and between t! and 8 near the apex ; 

 the prothorax with a narrow lateral stripe of denser greyish 

 scaling. 



Fig. 30. — Tani/mccus lacordairei, Fst. 



Eyes very prominent, almost circular. lioxtnim shallowly 

 eniarginate at the apex, with a faint central carina, which is 

 often divided by a fiue stria ; mandibles prominent, shiny and 

 without any transverse dorsal impression. Antenna with the 

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

 joints of the funicle subequal. Prothorax a trifle broader than 

 long, broadest at the base, much narrower at the apex, the sides 

 gently rounded, with close confluent punctatiou and a faint trace 



