96 CUECULIOXID^. 



the elytra is uot visible through it ; the setae more elevated aud 

 readily discernible when the insect is held against the light. 



Assam: Dilkvisha (Inglis). Bengal: Piisa, on indigo (i^(?/>o?/) ; 

 Eajmahal {Amiaiulale—lnd. Mus.); Sara Ghat (U. Bninetti — 

 Ind. Mus.); Calcutta (type). Sikkim : Kurseong, 5000 ft. 

 Afghaxista>\ 



Ti/2)e in the Dresden Museum. 



In Southern Burma the following local form occurs : — 



T. fese var. sutvittatus, Fst. 



Differs from the typical form only in having brownish grey 

 scaling which is thinner on the alternate intervals of the elytra, 

 causing an appearance of light and dark stripes. 



Burma : Tharrawaddy and Shwegyin {G. Q. Corbeit). 



Types d 2 in the Dresden Museum. 



Still farther south, in Tenasserim and Siam, the last-mentioned 

 form gradually merges into another which is of a uniform dark 

 coffee-brown colour. 



58. Tanymecus mandibularis, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dense overlapping sandy grey or brownish 

 scales. 



Eyes short oval, slightly prominent. Eostrum subtruncate at 

 the apex, with a shallow dorsal impression and a faint central 

 carina ; the mandibular scars situated on two very prominent 

 and divergent processes. Antennce with the scape exceeding the 

 posterior margin of the eye, joint 1 of the funicle much longer 

 than 2. ProtJwrax a trifle longer than broad, its sides slightly 

 rounded, broadest well before middle, the apex narrower than 

 the base, coriaceous above and without any central carina. Elytra 

 fairly broad, slightly acuminate behind in the c5^ , more parallel- 

 sided in the $ , apices scarcely mucronate, finely punctato-striate, 

 the stride not deeper towards apex and the punctation invisible 

 through the scaling, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus 

 absent ; the scaling dense, the setae rather longer than usual but 

 recumbent. Ler/s rather long, densely squamose, the tibiye_ not 

 denticulate in either sex, the hind tarsi with the second joint 

 evidently longer than the third, which is narrower than usual. 



Anal segment of $ rounded at the apex and with two basal 

 strise. 



Length, 10^ mm. ; breadth, 4i-4| mm. 



BALTJCHiSTAisr (type). Peksia : Seistan Desert (Gen. Sir A. H. 

 McMalion — Ind. Mus.). 



Type S in the British Museum. 



This species differs from all other members of the genus known 

 to me in lacking the single long erect seta on the trochanter. 

 In its tarsal structure it approaches Phacephorus owing to the 

 narrowness of the third joint, which in the $ is uot spongy 



