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declivity ; on each there are 3 or 4 rather broad, distinctly but not coarsely 
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 Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 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. Hyes 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 tubercles, 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 shghtly raised, but not nodiform, near 
the top of the posterior declivity. 
Scape dull, closely punctate, scarcely reaching the thoracic apex; 
funiculus rather stout, basal joint rather larger than the next, 3rd still 
shorter, joints 47 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 robustus (2091), and nearly 
related thereto, but with different vestiture, finer elytral sculpture, and 
without posterior nodosities. 
3S. Length (rostrum inclusive), 7}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. 
