1006 ON A COLLECTION FROM NORFOLK ISLAND — INSECTA, 



BOSTRYCHID^. 



Rhizopertha, sp. 



Two damaged specimens of a species allied to Rhizoj)ertha 

 coUaris, Erichson. 



TENEBRIONID^. 



HOPATRUM INSULANUM, Sp.n. 



Broadly ovate, moderately convex, black, opaque, extremely 

 finely and sparingly pubescent; protliorax finely and closely 

 rugose-punctate, tbe anterior angles not very prominent ; elytra 

 obscurely punctate-striate, finely rugulose. 



Head broadly transverse, finely and closely rugose-punctate, 

 somewhat impressed in front, the anterior margin rather strongly 

 emarginate ; the sides strongly produced in front of the eyes. 

 Antennae pitchy red, finely pubescent. Prothorax short, strongly 

 emarginate in front ; the sides strongly rounded and somewhat 

 reflexed ; the posterior margin bisinuate. Scutellum rounded 

 behind, irregularly punctured. Elytra punctate-striate, the inter- 

 stices broad, slightly convex, and hnely rugulose ; the humeral 

 angles rounded, not prominent. Underside piceous, somewhat 

 shining, moderately closely and iri-egularly punctured. Legs 

 black, tarsi reddish testaceous Length 8 mm. 



This species has the ordinary /aci'^s of Hopatrum and appears 

 to be abundant. It is not unlike the Queensland H. Master si^ 

 Macleay, but is more ovate, slightly more convex, and much less 

 conspicuously pubescent. 



Metisopus purpureipennis. 



Metisopus purpureipentiis, F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1873, p. 371. 



Described originally from Norfolk Island, where it is probably 

 endemic. 



