OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 401 



declivity ; on' each there are 3 or 4 rather broad, distinctly but not coarsel)' 

 punctured striae, all prolonged to the extremity, and obtusely elevated 

 interstices, the sculpture near the side consists of serial punctures and 

 plane interstices. Basal ventral segment flat. 



Scape with white scales ; 2nd joint of the funiculus as long as the basal, 

 joints 3-6 short and nearly equal, 7th broader. 



The shape and unusual breadth of the thorax distinguishes this species ; 

 behind the middle it is almost if not quite as broad as the widest part of 

 the elytra, and instead of being curvedly narrowed behind the middle, as 

 is generally the case, it is not contracted till close to the base, but there 

 rather abruptly and transversely. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 7| mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



Waipu Beach ; 10th January, 1914. Another discovery by Mr. A. E, 

 Brookes. 



3864. Tigones nasalis sp. nov. Tigones Bromi. Man. N.Z. Caleopt., p. 855. 



{Protophormus Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1178.) 



Opaque, moderately robust, castaneous ; densely covered with depressed 

 variegated squamae and many suberect greyish setae ; the squamae are 

 chiefly light rufo-fuscous, darker between the hind thighs, but paler though 

 not grey behind these ; apex of rostrum, the antennae, and tarsi fusco- 

 rufous. 



Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, feebly carinate along the middle, 

 with rather dark scales ; scrobes large, quite open above ; the apex dilated, 

 nearly as broad as the head, its central portion irregularly, longitudinally, 

 and closely rugose. Eyes less distant from the thorax than they are from 

 each other. Thorax very little broader than long, base and apex truncate, 

 a little narrowed before the middle, nearly straight behind ; the surface 

 with numerous short irregular rugae, or small tulbercles, and with a broad 

 longitudinal impression behind the middle, this is divided by a central, 

 rufescent, closely punctured ridge. Scutellum narrow, pallid. Elytra more 

 than double the length of thorax, rather wider than it is at the base, con- 

 siderably narrowed and deflexed behind, with simple apices ; they are rather 

 finely striate-punctate, the suture and 3rd interstices are a little elevated 

 at the base, 3rd and 5th interstices slightly raised, but not nodiform, near 

 the top of the posterior dechvity. 



Scape dull, closely punctate, scarcely reaching the thoracic apex ; 

 funiculus rather stout, basal joint rather larger than the next, 3rd still 

 shorter, joints 4-7 as broad as long, subobconical ; club elongate-oval. 



Tibiae flexuous, minutely serrate inwardly near the extremity, the 

 anterior mucronate, the others expanded at the apex, the posterior without 

 any visible external truncature of the corbels. 



Nearly as large as Sharp's Protophormus rohustus (2091), and nearly 

 related thereto, but with difierent vestiture, finer elytral sculpture, and 

 without posterior nodosities. 



S- Length (rostrum inclusive), 71 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Stewart Island. A single specimen found by Mr. W. Trail during the 

 summer of 1913. 



3865. Tigones citimus sp. nov. 



Elongate, nearly plane ; rufo-piceous, legs and tarsi fusco-rufous, 

 antennae and rostral apex piceo-rufous ; thickly covered with depressed 

 cupreous scales and moderately elongate, principally decumbent setae. 



