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CURCULIOXID.E. 



carina. Ehjtra short, narroM' in the S , much broader in the § ,. 

 t!ie shoulders very sloping, not very acuminate behind, the apices 

 shortly niucronate in the $ , but not in the S , the narrow punc- 

 tate strifH more or less hidden by the sealing, the intervals tinely 

 rugose, with numerous short curved white setae, the posterior 

 callus indistinct, and stria 9 not impressed. Legs dark brown, 

 the tarsi paler, the femora with scattered scales and pale setfe, 

 the tihite with setae only and not denticulate in either sex. 



Anal segment of 5 with the basal striae, the apex rounded. 



Lenr/th, 5^-7 mm. : breadth, 2-3 mm. 



E. Bengal: Goalbathan (R. Ho(7gart—Ind. Mus.). 



l^ype c? in the British Museum (without exact locality), 2 in 

 the Indian Museum. 



73. Tanymecus verlorenii, Voll. (fig. 24, m). 



Macropterus verlorenii, Vollenhoven, Tijds. Ent. 1871, p. 101, pi. 4^ 



tig. 1 ; Faust, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 50. 

 Cercophorus Jloccosus, Chevrolat,* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1880, 



p. 259. 

 Cercophorus Jistulosus, Chevrolat,* 1. c. 

 Cercophorus crassipes, Chevrolat,* 1. c. 

 Tamjmecus peyiicillatus, Deshrochers des Loges, C. E. Ent. Soc. 



Belg. 1891, p. ecclv, note 1. 

 Tanymecus {Cercophorus) verlorenii, Faust, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1892, 



p. 50; id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 1894, p. 184 (1895). 



Colour uniform green with a slight metallic reflexion, above 

 and below, sometimes with an orange lateral stripe on the elytra. 



Eyes slightly prominent and broadly ovate. Rostrum very 

 sliallowly emarginate at the apex and with a fine central carina. 



Fig. 3i. — Tani/mccus verlwcnii, Veil., c?. 



Ayitenme with the scape reaching or slightly exceeding the poste- 

 rior margin of the eye, the funicle with the two basal joints equal. 

 Prothorax longer than broad, its sides suhparallel from the base 

 to beyond the middle, then narrowed to the apex, finelv scrohicu- 

 late and with or without a tine central carina. Elytra rather 



