402 COLEOPTERA. 
Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, carinate along the middle, the 
apex finely punctate. Thorax as long as broad, slightly dilated near the 
middle, the base bisinuate; its central carina does not quite reach the 
apex and becomes indistinct behind, at each side of it there is a shallow 
impression, the sculpture concealed. Scutellum elongate, pale yellow. 
Elytra oblong, a good deal narrowed behind, with slightly divergent but 
not prolonged apices, they are quite twice the length of thorax, rather 
broader than it is at the base, which is bisinuate; distinctly but not closely 
seriate-punctate, each puncture has a narrow greyish scale within it; 3rd 
interstices obtusely elevated at the base, plane along the middle, hon- 
zontally nodiform on top of the declivity, which is broadly convex, but 
not vertical, along the middle ; 5th interstices simple. 
Scape with elongate greyish scales and erect setae, gradually incrassate 
and attaining the thoracic apex; 2nd joint of funiculus rather shorter 
than the basal, neither very elongate, joints 3-7 short and submoniliform ; 
club elongate-oval, indistinctly quadriarticulate. 
This somewhat resembles 3118, but the squamae are almost wholly of a 
reddish-coppery hue, the grey scales covering the sides of the elytra and 
posterior declivity in that species being absent. The terminal nodosities 
of the 3rd interstices are much less conspicuous and do not project beyond 
the subeurvate declivity, which in 3118 is vertical, with prolonged apices, 
and the 5th interstices are simple in this species. The joints of the 
funiculus are evidently shorter. The space between the external cilia of 
the posterior corbels is very narrow. 
The scrobes, as seen from above, are deep and widely open, and they 
continue broad and smooth more than half-way to the eyes, and therefore 
do not correspond exactly with the typical species of either Platyomida 
or Tigones, and in Sharp’s Protophormus they are described as being 
“ brevissimae.” As those of 3118 are similar it must be placed with this 
species. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 8 mm. ; breadth, 23 mm. 
Mount Alfred; 4th February, 1914. Unique. Found by Mr. T. Hall. 
Nore.—As 1521 was described as Tigones caudata, 3118 must have its 
name altered to Tigones asteliae. 
3866. Tigones thoracica sp. nov. 
Stout, unasperate, the derm slightly nitid, fusco-rufous, legs and tarsi 
chestnut-red ; covered with depressed tawny squamae, those on the thoracic 
dise of a light-coppery hue, bordered near the sides with some fuscous ones 
which also form small spots on the declivity, on the summit of the last 
there are some grey ones, these, however, do not form a definite fascia ; 
the setae are erect, mostly pale. 
Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, carinate along the middle. Thorax 
subcylindric, base and apex truncate, a little broader than long, slightly 
narrowed in front, without distinct rugae; an indistinctly raised space 
extends from the base and tapers towards but does not reach the apex, 
it is quite bare and closely rugose-punctate. Scutellum distinct, greyish. 
Elytra subcordate, nearly double the width of the thorax in the middle, 
thrice its length, with slightly oblique shoulders, the apices slightly pro- 
longed and dehiscent; they are striate-punctate, with nearly simple inter- 
stices, the 3rd, and the suture, being only a little raised near the base. 
