104 CUKCULIONID.E, 



70. Tanymecus konbiranus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with uuiform brownish-grey scaling, which is 

 paler at the sides and beneath. 



Eyes slightly prominent, very shortly ovate. Rostrum as long as 

 broad, shallowly sinuate at the apex and with a fine central carnia. 

 Antennce with the scape slightly curved and extending well beyond 

 the posterior margin of the eye, the f unicle with joint 1 only a 

 little longer than 2. Prothorax evidently longer than broad, its 

 sides slightly rounded, broadest rather behind the middle, the apex 

 scarcely narrower than the base, finely and confluently punctate, 

 with a shallow transverse stria close to the apex and a median 

 longitudinal impression at the base. Elytra elongate, subparallel 

 to beyond the middle, the apices divergently pointed, distinctly 

 punctato-striate, the striae not deeper behind, stria 9 not im- 

 pressed, the posterior callus faint ; scaling rather thin, the scales 

 being small and narrow, the setae minute. Legs rather stout, with 

 thin scaling, tlie femora and tibiae with long pale erect hairs on 

 their lower surface, the tibia? not denticulate. 



Anal segment of the 6 almost as long as broad and with a 

 median impressed line; the second abdominal segment a little 

 shorter than 3 and 4 together ; the S organ produced at the apex 

 into a long narrow asymmetrical spatula curved up at the end. 

 2 unknown. 



Lenr/th, 7| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Bengal: Chota Nagpur (Cardon), 



Type S in the Brussels Museum. 



Though superficially resembling the imlkus group, the short- 

 ness of the second abdominal segment and the structure of the S 

 genitalia distinguish it from all the other species of Indian 

 Tanymecus ; in these and other respects it is nearly allied to the 

 African inafectatus, Fhs. 



71. Tanymecus agrestis. Est. 



Tatipnecus ayrestis, Faust,* Anu. Soc. Ent. Belg.xliii, ]899, p. 394, 

 note. 



Colour black, variegated with rather sparse grey and brown 

 scaling and with comparatively long erect setae. 



Eyes rather pi-oininent and almost circular. Rostrum very short, 

 broader than long, with a broad angular emargination at the apex, 

 flat above and with a fine central carina. Antennae with the scape 

 slender, strongly curved, abruptly clavate and exceeding the pos- 

 terior margin of the eye, joint 1 of the f unicle longer than 2. 

 Protliorax as long as broad, its sides rounded, broadest before the 

 middle, the apex as broad as the base ; the upper surface coria- 

 ceous, without any central carina, but with a faint shallow 

 impression on each side behind the middle. Elytra with the 

 shoulders rectangularly prominent, the sides parallel to beyond 

 the middle, acuminate behind, the apices being shortly and diver- 

 gently mucronate; with comparatively deep and closely punctured 



