. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. 78 CUECULIONID^. the apex and base of equal width, finely coriaceous and with a low narrow centi'al carina. Ehjtra elongate, acuminate behind, the â shoulders rather narrow, the apices sharply mucronate, finely punctato-striate, the striae a little deeper at the apex, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus absent; the scaling not dense enough to hide the sheen of the elytra, the setae very short. Fig. 25.ââ Ta»i/mccus schirus, Oliv. and depressed. Leys red-brown, with thin grey scaling, the front tibiae denticulate internally in
. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora:-Curculionidæ,. Curculionidae. 78 CUECULIONID^. the apex and base of equal width, finely coriaceous and with a low narrow centi'al carina. Ehjtra elongate, acuminate behind, the â shoulders rather narrow, the apices sharply mucronate, finely punctato-striate, the striae a little deeper at the apex, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus absent; the scaling not dense enough to hide the sheen of the elytra, the setae very short. Fig. 25.ââ Ta»i/mccus schirus, Oliv. and depressed. Leys red-brown, with thin grey scaling, the front tibiae denticulate internally in both sexes, the hind pair in the d" only. Lenr/tJi, 7,j-10 mm. ; breadth, 2^-4 mm. Bengal: Chota Nagpur (Cardon); on sugar-cane, Pusa (Lefro;/); Chapra {MachenzieâPusa Coll.). Central Provinces : Patna (Pusa Coll.). Type (5 in the Paris Museum; type of T. protervus in the Stockholm Museum. 34. Tanymecus cephalotes, Fst. (fig. 24, w). Asemns cephalotes, Faust, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 351. Colour black with brownish grey-scaling, which is uniformly â dense beneath but thinner on the alternate intervals of the elytra, causing an appearance of light and dark stripes; the prothorax with a lateral darker subdenuded stripe. Eyes narrowly elongate and only slightly prominent. Rostrum very short, broader than long, shallowly emarginate at apex and with a fine central carina; mandibles not projecting. Antemioi with the scape not reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the funicle with joint 2 much longer than 1. Prothorax as long as broad, cylindrical, scarcely narrower at apex than at base, closely aciculate and without any trace of a central carina. Elytra narrow and elongate, their sides almost parallel to beyond middle, distinctly punctato-striate, the inner striae rather deeper at apex, stria 9 not impressed, the posterior callus obsolete; the setae. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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