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large, transversal. Thorax but little longer than broad, widest behind the 

 middle, well rounded there, curvedly narrowed towards the abrupt frontal 

 contraction. Scutellum distinct. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, 

 parallel to beyond the hind thighs, curvedly narrowed behind, slightlv 

 transversely bi-impressed above. Legs stout, only moderately elongate ; 

 tibise uncinate, and acute at the inner extremity. Tarsi moderately narrow, 

 3rd joint slightly dilated, concave in front, entire below, not lobate. 

 Coxaj widely separated. Rostrum, underneath, wdth two sharply defined 

 grooves, and therefore appearing tricarinate. Metasternum rather longer 

 than the basal 2 ventral segments taken together, distinctly medially sul- 

 cate. Mesosternal suture straight. Basal 2 segments slightly convex, their 

 suture distinct and a httle sinuate, the 1st transversely impressed behind. 



Underside glossy, piceous, the last 3 abdominal segments rufescent, 

 with distinct rather evenly distributed punctures, almost quite glabrous, 

 having only a few minute hairs on the terminal segment, and therefore in 

 marked contrast to the upper surface. 



Exactly intermediate between Macroscytalus and Agastegnus, having 

 the disproportionally long club of the former and the facies of the latter, 

 from which, nevertheless, it differs in having shorter and thicker legs, more 

 prominent eyes, stouter and differently inserted antennae, different rostrum. 

 &c. From Macroscytalus it is readily distinguishable by a glance at its 

 conspicuous vestiture. 



Selocomis seneopiceus, Broun. 915. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 513. 



Fusco-rufous, sUghtly bronzed ; femora piceous ; rostrum, antennae, 

 and tarsi rufous ; shghtly shining. 



Rostrum parallel for more than half of its length, moderately closely 

 and finely punctured, more distantly and finely in front. Head pilose, 

 distinctly but not closely punctured. Thorax broadly impressed medially, 

 with a slightly raised smooth central line, distinctly but not closely punc- 

 tured, the apical margin nearly smooth. Elytra slightly broadly impressed 

 before and behind the middle, their striae somewhat indefinite, but with the 

 punctures on the suture and interstices unusually close and distinct, the 

 3rd thickened, elevated, and bent at the extremity, and causing an apparent 

 depression beyond each of them. 



Length. If lines ; breadth, nearly | line. 



Mount Manaia, Whangarei. One only. 



Glyphoramphus, Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 970. 



Body subdepressed, sparingly clothed with slender yellow hairs. 



Rostrum shorter than the thorax, not quite as broad as the head, just 

 perceptibly medially incurved, quite vertical in front, deeply concave between 

 the antennae. Head moderately globose ; occiput short, slightly narrowed 

 in front. Eyes moderately large and prominent, rotundate, widely sepa- 

 rated. Scape inserted near the apex, attaining the eye, slightly flexuous. 

 moderately elongate, slender near the base, subclavate for half its length. 

 Funiculus rather slender, 2nd joint nearly as long as but more slender than 

 the 1st, joints 3-5 laxly articulated, 5th very short. Club nearly oblong- 

 oval, large, indistinctly annulate. Thorax about as broad as it is long, 

 its sides strongly rounded, base truncate, deeply constricted in front. Scu- 

 tellum distinct but small. Elytra subparallel, gradually narrowed behind, 

 apices slightly rounded singly, the base evidently broader than that of the 



