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Heteropsis, Wollaston. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 529. 



Body small, narrow, subdepressed, subparallel, shining, glabrous. 



Rostiunj broad, rather longer than the short head, incurved behind the 

 middle. Occiput marked otf in front by a linear impression. Eyes obsolete. 

 Scape inserted near the apex, short and stout, rather abruptly thickened 

 near the extremity. Funiculus 5-articulate, 2nd joint not longer than 

 3rd. Club ovate. Thorax elongate, ovate-triangular, slightly constricted in 

 front. Scutellum small. Elytra slightly narrower than thorax, parallel. 

 Legs short and stout ; tarsi short, 3rd joint narrow, not lobate.' 



Metasternum elongate. Basal ventral segment indistinctly longitudinally 

 concave. 



Diti'ers from Proconus by its more cylindrical almost convex body, dif- 

 ferent rostrum, small size, and more especially by its obsolete eyes ; this 

 last character places it near Amaurorrhinus, which occurs in the Madeira 

 and Canary Islands and southern P^urope ; its scutellum, however, is 

 obsolete. 



Heteropsis lawsoni, Wollaston. 940. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 529. 



Shining, piceo-castaneous. rufous in my specimen. 



Head and rostrum finely punctate, marked off from each other by a fine 

 line. Thorax distinctly punctured, more closely near the sides and behind 

 the nearly smooth apex. Elytra lightly punctate-striate, interstices with 

 minute serial punctures. 



Underside moderately coarsely punctate. 



Length, 1-lj lines ; breadth, j line. 



Auckland. One. 



Novitas, Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 527. 



Body small, moderately elongate and convex, medially narrowed, 

 glabrous, or with extremely slender pubescence. 



Rostrum arched, as long as thorax, moderately stout in proportion to the 

 small size of the insect, very gradually and slightly narrowed towards the 

 extremity ; in the female very slender and parallel. Head globose, usually 

 inmiersed almost to the eyes, narrowed to the width of the rostrum. Eyes 

 with coarse facets, comparatively large but not at all convex. Scape much 

 curved, elongate and slender, but subclavate at the extremity, inserted 

 distinctly before the middle and attaining the eye. Funiculus very elongate, 

 2nd joint as long as the 1st but more slender, 3rd oviform, 4th and 5th moni- 

 liforni. Club oblong-oval. Thorax longer than broad, oviform, not con- 

 stricted in front. Scutellum obsolete or altogether absent. Elytra widest 

 behind the middle, gradually narrowed towards the slightly incurved base, 

 which, however, is rather broader than that of the thorax. Legs long and 

 stout, femoia thick but not clavate, tibia' rather short, not perceptibly 

 uncinate. Tarsi with spongelike soles, basal joint small, 2nd and 3rd 

 expanded and strongly transverse, the latter with short broad lobes and 

 with slender projecting setae. 



Prosternum incurved in front, coxa? only moderately separated. Meso- 

 sternum moderately elongate. Metasternum remarkably short, much shorter 

 than the basal ventral segment, so that the 2 hind pairs of legs are more 

 approximated than the intermediate and anterior. Basal segment longi- 

 tudinally impressed, its apical suture very fine, the 2nd, at the sides, almost 

 as long as the 1st. 

 7— Trans. 



