CARDANUS. 227 



sides and base. Scutellum absent or reduced to a very narrow 

 vestige. Elytra long and narrow, parallel- sided, with very 

 narrow epipleurae. Prosternum very little elevated behind the 

 coxse and not pointed. 



The two sexes are alike externally. 



The species of tliis genus liave a very hard exterior, which is 

 densely sculptured and usually quite opacjue. The only 

 Iiidian representative known to me is a specimen in the Calcutta 

 Museum of C variolosus. 



134. Cardanus variolosus. (Plate XXII, fig. 5.) 



Cardanus variolosus Arrow,* Trans. R. Ent, Soc. Lond. Ixxxiii, 

 193o, p. \1\. 



Sooty-black, densely puncture<l and opac^ue, narrowly 

 elongate and mcxlerately convex. The head is strongly and 

 densely punctured, slightly hollowed aljove, with a small 

 smooth and shming area on each side towards the front margin, 

 which is almost straight ; the canthus is prominent, very 

 bluntly angidar in front and behind. The pronotum. is almost 

 as long as it is wide, coarsely and densely punctured, Avith 

 a strong longitudinal median groove, abbreviated in front, where 

 it meets a well-marked smooth round tubercle. The front 

 angles are romided and ])rominent, the lateral margins finely 

 serrate, nearl}' straight, and slightly divergent to beyond the 

 middle, where they are bluntly angular, and strongly conver- 

 gent to the hmd angles, which are distinct but obtuse. The 

 elytra bear rather irregular rows of large closely packed punc- 

 tures, separated by three or four longitudinal ridges on each 

 side. Tiie sutural margms are not elevated. The shoulders 

 are very shaqj. The lower surface is entirely (•overe<l with 

 very large and close punctures. 



Ltngth (with mandibles), 1.5 imn. ; (without mandibles), 

 14 mm. : breadth, 5 mm. 



Assam : Rotung, 1400 ft. {Dr. Stanley Kemp, Dec.). Siam. 



Type in the British ]\Iuseum. 



Found in rottmg wocxl. 



Genus PLATYFIGULUS. 



Platyfigulus Arrow, Trans. R. Ent. Soc. Lend. Ixxxiii, 193."). p. 117. 



Type, P. scorpio Arrow. 



Range. Unknown. 



Extremely flat and rather narrow, with the legs not very 

 slender, the middle and hind tibise without spines, but frhiged 

 with hairs at the imier and outer edges, the three basal joints 

 of all the tarsi short and broad, with dense hairy pads beneath, 

 the 4th joint minute and the oth slender. Head broad, 

 rounded laterally in front and narrowed behind, with the eyes 



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