i 14 CUKCULIONID.E. 



margins aBgular, the apex shallowly emarginate ; the scrobes deep, 

 curving sharply downwards in front of the eye and becoming 

 broader and shallower below ; mandibles with a conspicuous and 

 slightly projecting scar ; the mentum large and filling its cavity, 

 sometimes with a trace of a peduncle to the submentum. Antenna' 

 inserted nearer the apex, the scape gradually thickened, the funicle 

 with joint 1 longer than the others, 2-7 short, closely set and more 

 or less transverse, 7 sometimes more elongate, subconical and 

 annexed to the club, which is small, 4-jointed and sharply acumi- 

 nate. ProtJiorcuv obliquely (or verticully) truncate at the apex, 

 truncate (or shallowly bisinuate) at tlie base, the anterior edge 

 with conspicuous vibrissae below the eye, the gular margin truncate 

 (or rather deeply sinuate). Scutellum distinct, triangular. Elytra 

 elongate (or broadly oblong-ovate), the base subtruncate, broader 

 than the prothorax at the shoulders, the posterior declivity slophig, 

 with 10 strife, the lateral margin shallowly sinuate. Sternum wnVa 

 the front coxse in the middle of the prosternum, the mesosternum 

 with the epimera large; metasternum evidently longer than (or 

 equal to) the median coxae, the episterua distinct, the hind coxae 

 not reaching the elytra. Venter Avith the intercoxal process 

 ogival (or truncate), segment 2 as long as or longer than 3+4 

 and separated from 1 by a curved incision. Legs elongate, the 

 femora not or only slightly clavate : the tibiae almost straight, the 

 two front pairs with an internal apical spine, the hind pair with 

 the corbels open ; the tarsi linear, joint 3 not or scarcely broader 

 than 2, 4 elongate and with two connate claws. 



liangc. Tropical Africa, Burma. 



The characters given in brackets are all peculiar to the single 

 Eastern species as compared with the typical African forms. 



79. Anemerus cerberus, Fst. 



Ananicrus cerberus, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 171 (189.5). 



Colour black, with uniform earthy-brown scaling, and with short 

 stiff erect setae. 



Head with a central furrow which is subinterrupted in the 

 middle and broader behind, on each side of it a very large deep 

 impression, the supra-ocular ridges broad, obtuse and strongly 

 raised. Rostrum a little longer than broad, its sides subparallel, 

 with a deep oval central impression and a broad furrow on each 

 side of it which is interrupted towards the apex by a narrow 

 oblique carina. Prothorax transverse, its sides parallel from the 

 base to the middle, then subangularly dilated and narrowed again 

 to the apex, which is narrower than the base ; the upper surface 

 rugosely impressed, there being a broad central furrow, angidarly 

 dilated in the middle, with au irregular row of three large impres- 

 sions on each side of it and several transverse lateral plications. 

 Elytra rather short and broad, the shoulders sharply rectangular, 



