TANYMECrS. 



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the others. Frothora.v as long as broad, the sides gently rounded, 

 broadest about tlie middle, the apex evidently narrower than the 

 base, the upper surface rather rugosely punctate throughout, the 

 subgranulate interspaces showing through the scales. Elytra ( $ ) 

 parallel-sided from the shoulders to the middle, thence gradually 

 acuminate, the apices divergently pointed ; the striae shallow on 

 the disk, deeper behind, the punctures not visible through the 

 scahng, the intervals flat, with a distinct impression behind the 

 posterior callus, the scales oblong-ovate, the sette short and re- 

 cumbent. Legs with dense green scaling, the tibiae not denticulate. 



Anal segment of 5 shorter than its basal width, with a broad 

 shallow impression on each side, but no impressed lines, the apex 

 broadly rounded. 



Lenrjih, 7 mm. ; breadth, 2^ mm. 



CENTiiAL Pkovtnces: Hoshangabad (E. A. UAhreu). 



Type $ in the British Museum. 



63. Tanymecus indicus, Fd. (fig. 24, </). 



Tanymecus indicus, Faust,* Ann. Mns. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 177, note (1895). 



Colour black, with brown scaling more or less irrorated with grey, 

 and usually with a few green scales at the apex of the rostrum. 



Fig. o2. — Tanymecus hidicus, Fst. 



Eyes very slightly ])rominent, large, oval, almost as long as 

 the rostrum. Rostrum as long as broad, very shallowly sinuate 

 at the apex, Avith a distinct central carina, the mandibles not 

 prominent. Antennce with the scape strojigly bisinuate and 

 scarcely reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the funicle 

 with joint 1 evidently longer than 2. Prothorax a little longer 

 than broiid, its sides rounded, broadest slightly before middle, 

 the apes only slightly narrower than the base, finely coriaceous 

 and usually with a faint trace of a central carina in the anterior 

 half. Elytra broadest at the shoulders and very gradually narrow- 

 ing behind, the apices divergently pointed, punctato-striate, the 

 striae not much deeper towards the apex, the punctures only 

 visible through the scaling in the basal half, stria 9 not impressed, 



