TANIMECUS. 95 



Anal segment of 2 rounded at the apex and with two hasal 

 •striae. 



Length, 8:^-11 mm.; breadth, 2|-3| mm. 



Beis^gal : Pusa. Assam: Nongpob, Khasi Hills (D. Nowrojl — 

 Pusa Coll.). 



'fl/pe cS ill the Stockholm Museum. 



57. Tanymecus feae, Fst. 



Aseinus fece, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, p. 182 



(1895). 

 Asemus phimeus, Faust,* 1. c. p. 183, note (n. syn.). 

 Asenius subvittatus, Faust,* Ueut. Eut. Zeit. 1897, p. 352 (n. syn.j. 



Colour black, with uniform greenisli grey scaling in the typical 

 form ; the scales A^ery narrow and elongate, hair-like. 



Eyes^ slightly prominent and bi'oadly ovate. Rostrum with its 

 apical margin only slightly sinuate, shallowly impressed dorsally 

 and with a narrow bare central line ; mandibles prominent, the 

 left one with a curved carina along its dorsal margin. Antenncn 

 \\\t\i the scape not reacliiug the posterior margin of the eye, the 

 two basal joints of the funicle equal. Prothorax a little longer 

 ihan broad, siibcyliudrical, but slightly narrowed at the apex, 

 tlie upper surface finely coriaceous and sometimes with a faint 

 trace of a central carina. Elytra narrowly elongate and acumin- 

 ate behind, subparallel from the shoulders to beyond the middle 

 in the 5 , gradually narrowed in the c? , sharply mucronate at 

 the apex in both sexes, with fine punctate strise which are not 

 deeper at apex, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus absent; 

 scaling not sulliciently dense to conceal the sheen of the elytra, 

 the scales narrowly elongate ; the setse short, subdepressed and 

 scarcely distinguishable from the scaling except when viewed from 

 the side. Legs slender, piceous or ferruginous, with dense scaling, 

 all the tibisa distinctly denticulate in both sexes, the tarsi elon- 

 gate, the second joint of the hind pair longer than the third. 



Anal segment of $ with two basal striae, the apex rounded and 

 not compressed. 



Length, 10-11| mm. ; breadth, 3|-4 mm. 



BuKMA : Bhamo, Teiuzo and Katha {Fea). 



Types c? 2 in the Genoa Museum. 



To the north this species is represented by the following local 

 race which Faust regarded as a distinct species ; but I cannot 

 confirm the existence of the structural differences which he 

 mentions, and moreover the (S genitalia of the two forms are 

 entirely similar. 



T. fese var. plumeus, Fst. (fig. 24, i). 



Colour pale grey, or pale sandy, without any greenish tinge ; 

 the scaling denser than in the typical form, so that the gloss of 



