98 CUECULIONID^. 



given do not appear to be very convincing, while the punctures 

 on the elytra arc unquestionably much smaller behind. The 

 colouring is different, being dull blue-green, the scales are smaller 

 and more sparse, and there is a slight difference in the genitalia 

 of the only specimen examined (fig. 2A, I, s). 



Length, 7|-7| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Burma: Tenasserira {Niclcerl — type); Tharrawaddy {0. Q. 

 Corhett). 



Type S in the Dresden Museum. 



61. Tanymecus hispidus, sp, no v. (fig. 24, t). 



Colour black, with uniform greyish-brown scaling and a small 

 dark spot at the posterior callus; the upper surface set with 

 short, stiff, erect, or suberect, setae. 



Eyes short oval, slightly prominent ; the forehead very broad, 

 its narrowest part as broad as the base of the rostrum. Rostrum 

 stout, broader than long, very shallowly sinuate at the apex, 

 without any central carina. Antennm with the scape reaching 

 the posterior margin of the eye, joint 1 of the fuuicle longer 

 than 2. ProtJiorax longer than broad and with the sides slightly 

 rounded iu the c? > as long as broad and with the sides more 

 rounded in the 2 , broadest before the middle, the apex not 

 narrower than the base, the apical margin more obliquely trun- 

 cate laterally than usual, the upjjer surface finely coriaceous and 

 without any central carina. Elytra parallel-sided from the 

 shoulders to beyond the middle, separately rounded at the apex, 

 distinctly puncrato-striate, the striae not deeper behind, the 

 posterior callus faint ; the scaling and setse dense. Legs piceous, 

 the tibiae not denticulate internally. 



Anal segment of $ rounded at the apex and without any basal 

 striae. 



Length, -i^-o^ mm. ; breadth, l|-2 mm. 



Bengal : Pusa, on rice (Lefroy — type) ; Dholi, attacking 

 maize (Pusa Coll.). United Provinces : Rampurchaka, Bijnor 

 dist. (Ind. Mus.). Punjab : JuUundur (Lefroy). 



Types (S 2 in the British Museum. 



62. Tanymecus Iiirticeps, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dense uniform metallic-green scaling. 



Eyes ovate, moderately prominent ; the forehead with a very 

 fine sinuous central carina, which is continued on to the rostrum. 

 Hodriim about as long as broad, the upper surface quite flat, the 

 sculpture hidden by the scaling, except the fine central carina, 

 the apex scarcely emarginate, though the deflexion of the scale- 

 less epistome makes it appear as though there were a fairly deep 

 emargination ; both head and rostrum covered with fairly long, 

 dense, obliquely raised, white setae. Aniennce black, with pale 

 greenish setae ; the scape straight, gradually widened, and reach- 

 iug the hind margin of the eye ; the funicle with joint 1 much 

 longer than 2, 3 to 7 transverse, 7 being longer and broader than 



