254 PASSAUD^. 



the middle of the base very smooth. The lateral scars of th& 

 mesosternum are small and narrow. The lateral depressed 

 areas of the metastermim are broad, finely and densely punc- 

 tured, and clothed with short hair. 



Length, 37 to 43 mm. ; bremlth. 13 to 15 mm. 



N. Burma : Mali Hka Valley, Kachin Hills, 1000 to 2500 ft. 

 {F. Kingdon Ward, Dec.) ; Sm Lum, Bhamo, 6000 ft. {T. Sel- 

 kirk). Bhvta's {Capf. Pemberton). Sikkim : Gantok (June). 

 Darjeeling Distr. : Mangpu (E. T. Atkinson). Assam : 

 Kohima, Naga Hills, 5700 ft. (April). 



The type of the sjjecies is the specimen in the Darmstadt 

 Museum described by Kaup under the incorrect name of 

 Aceraius cancrus. 



151. Tiberioides austeni. 



Tiberioides uutiteni Gravely, Mem. Ind. Mas. iii, 1914, p. 216, pi. 11, 

 fig. 15. 



A large species, rather elongate, slightly convex, extremely 

 smooth and shining, the middle tibia very thickly clothed with 

 reddish hair above. The three terminal joints of the antennal 

 club are long, the seventh is rather long, the fifth and sixth 

 short. The head is s^Tiimetrical, the supraorbital ridges are 

 broadly rounded above and not produced in front, the inner 

 marginal processes are acutely pointed, but very short, broad 

 at the base, the frontal ridges are short and strongly bisumate, 

 ending in strong tubercles not far apart . The parietal ridge is 

 strong. The pronotum is rather strongly transverse, without 

 jDunctures except in or very near the small lateral scars, the 

 marginal groove fine, not dilated at the sides of the front 

 margin. The elytra are deeply grooved, with convex intervals, 

 the dorsal grooves not distinctly punctured and the lateral 

 grooves very minutely. The mentum is smooth in the middle 

 and at the sides anteriorly and very coarseh' punctured 

 posteriorly. The lateral scars of the mesosternum are long, 

 deep and opaque, and the lateral depressed areas of the 

 metasternum are densely punctured but not closely hairy. 



Length, 45 mm. ; breadth, 16 mm. 



Burma : Mishmi Hills [Miss M. Steele). Assam : Abor 

 country, 3800 ft. (»S'. W. Kemp. Dec). 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Til is species was found by Dr. Kemp deep in a very hard dry 

 log. 



152. Tiberioides borealis. 



ChilonKizufi borealis Arrow,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906 (1907), 



p. 467. 

 Tiberioides borealis Gravely, Mem. Ind. Mus. iii, 1914, p. 320 ; 



op. cit. vii, 1918, p. 85. 



Very smooth, not very long, the elytra relatively shorty 



