90 CURCULIONlD.i:. 



of a central oaniia. Elytra strongly acuminate behind in S ■> 

 more gradually in $ , jointly niucrotiate at the apex, the mucro 

 longer and with a short tuft of pale hairs in the <S , with narrow 

 finely punctate striae, 1-3 much broader and deeper at the apex, 

 9 scarcely impressed ; scaling narrow, thinly distributed (dense 

 in 1 specimen out of 20) ; seta* dense, short and depi'essed. Legs 

 black, with rather sparse pale scaling, the front tibite finely 

 denticulate in the 6 only. 



Anal segment of 5 with the two basal strife, and strongly 

 compressed at the apex into a prominent short carina. 



Ltnrith, S 12|-17, $ 11-17 mm.; breadth, S 44-6|, $ 

 4^-74 mm. 



Bexgal : Pusa {Lcfro>/): Chapra (JIacl-enzie — Pusa Coll.). 



Types J 2 in the Dresden Museum. 



51. Tanymecus circumdatus, Wled. (fig 24, a). 



Curculio circumdatus, Wiedemann,* Germ. IMag. iv, 1821, p. Iu6. 

 Tanymecus circumdatus, INJaklin, Act. Soc. Feuii. vii, 1863, p. 129 ; 



Faust, Anil. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, p. 180 (1895). 

 Tanyviecus rusticus, Gyllenhal,* Schh. Gen. Cure, ii, 1834, p. 83 ; 



Fahrseus, op. cit. vi, pt. 1, 1840, p. 235 (n. svn.). 

 Esamus falsus, Chevrolat,* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1880, p. 257 



(n. syn.). 

 Esainns leucocephalus, Clievrolat,* 1. c. (n. syn.). 

 Esamus alhicinctus, Chevrolat,* op. cit. p. 258 (u. syn.) 

 Esavius ijolyyrammus, Chevrolat,* 1. c. (n. syn.). 

 Tanymecus suhaureus, Desbrochers des Log'es, C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. 



XXXV, 1891, p. ccclv. 



Colour greyish or pinkish fawn, usually with a metallic coppery 

 reflexion, prothorax with three dark subdenuded stripes, the 

 central one narro\\er ; elytra with the suture and alternate in- 

 tervals with thinner scaling, thus giving an appearance of light 

 and dark stripes, and with a broad white lateral stripe, the 

 extreme margin usually darker. 



Eyes moderately prominent, oval. Rostrum shnllowl}" emar- 

 ginate at apex and with a distinct central carina ; left mandible 

 moderately prominent and with a transverse dorsal impression. 

 AntenncB with the scape reaching or slightly exceeding the posterior 

 margin of the eye, the two basal joints of the fuuicle subequal. 

 Prothorax as long as broad or slightly longer than broad, broadest 

 at the base, much narrower at the apex, the sides gently rounded, 

 the punctation fine, shallow and close. EJytra strongly acuminate 

 behind, more especially in the d' , the apices shortly mucronate 

 in both sexes, with fine distinctly punctate strife, the juxta- 

 sutural ones not deeper at the apex, the ninth stria with two 

 shallow inipi'essions not far from the base; scaling of varying 

 density; the setse very short, dense and depressed. Legs black, 

 with dense pale scaling, the tibiie not denticulate internally in 

 either sex. 



