ANEMERUS. — HYPOMECES, 



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the sides parallel from there to behind the middle in the $ , rather 

 more narrowed in the S , the apices with a short blunt mucro ; 

 with shallow broad sulci containing rows of large deep fovea?, the 



Fig. 38. — Anciiicrus cerbei-u-f, Fst. 



intervals narrow and rather undulating, the alternate ones elevated 

 and uneven; the scaling dense, with scattered patches of short 

 white erect setse. Lejs with dense brownish scaling and numerous 

 suberect setae. 



Lenr/th, 6^-7| mm.; breadth, 3i-3| mm. 



Burma: Minhla (Comotto); Slienmasa(i'^(2«); Mimbu (Co?. 6'. //. 

 Adamsoii). 



Type iu the Genoa Museum. 



Genus HYPOMECES. 



Hypomeces, Schouherr, Disp. Meth. 182G, -p. 124; Lacordaire, Geu. 

 Col. vi, 1803, p. 99. 



Type, Carculio squamosus, F. 



Head always with a central furrow, the eyes very prominent. 

 Rostrum stout, longer than the liead and continuous with it, its 

 base not broader than the forehead, the apex with an angular 

 eniargination, the upper surface with a deep central furi-ow ; the 

 scrobes entirely lateral and curving downwards at some distance 

 in front of the eye ; the mandibles pincer-like, the scars large and 

 conspicuous, that on the right mandible projecting on a short 

 peduncle; mentum trapezoidal, concealing the raaxillas but not 

 quite filling the buccal cavity, the suhmentum with a trace of a 

 very short broad peduncle. Antenna; with the scape almost 

 straight, gradually clavate and reaching about the middle of the 

 eye, the funiele with the two basal joints a little longer than the 

 rest, which become slightly broader outwardly, 7 a little broader 

 but not longer than 6, the club distinctly 4- jointed and sharply 

 acuminate, its two basal joints equal. Frothorax broadest at the 

 base and continuously narrowed to the apes, the base bisinuate, 



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