Broun. — Additions to Coleopterous Fauna of CJiatham Islands. 309 



prominent in front, margined and ciliated at the sides, shining, covered 

 with a sparse pmictuation and a very short hispid golden-silky pubescence, 

 each elytron with 4 rather obsolete ridges. 



Beneath with the abdomen somewhat thickly punctate, the punctuation 

 sparser on the legs and thorax, with a pubescence similar to that on the upper 

 surface, but shorter and denser ; legs clothed with longer hairs, disposed 

 in ciliee on the intermediate and posterior tibiae, the anterior tibiae armed 

 externally in front with "2 large teeth, and behind with 5 or 6 small ones. 



Female. — Parry. 



Body subdepressed, broad and fiat, strongly punctured ; anterior angles 

 of the head less produced than in the male, armed with a minute tubercle 

 behind the eyes, which are partially divided by the canthus. Prothorax 

 sUghtly rounded at the sides, posterior angles scarcely emarginate, with a 

 faint central longitudinal channel and a shallow depression on each side. 

 Elytra, as in the male, shghtly costate. Scutellum exceedingly small, trans- 

 verse. Mandibles short, tridentate at the apex. Tarsi short. 



Parry adds that he is indebted to M. Henri DeyroUe for permission to 

 incorporate the description of the male in the present paper, and to the 

 kindness of Mr. F. Pascoe to add a description of the female. A single 

 example of the male exists in the collection of Count Mnizech, and both 

 sexes in that of Mr. Pascoe, their habitat being the Chatham Islands, situate 

 about four hmidred miles from the eastern coast of New Zealand. 



Ohs. — The above descriptions have been copied from the " Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of London," 1873, p. 339. In that volume 

 figm'es are given on pi. v. Unfortunately, tracings of these were not asked 

 for, and therefore not sent, so that we in New Zealand remain in doubt 

 regarding the size of the insect and the structure of the mandibles. 



Group Cryptorhynchid^. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coloopt., p. 482. 

 Aldonus misturatus, sp. no v. 



Convex, oblong-oval, moderately iiitid ; fusco-piceous, antennae and 

 tarsi piceo-rufous ; sparingly clothed with oviform slender scales and erect 

 moderately coarse sette, all of which are flavescent. 



Rostrum slightly shorter than thorax, a little arched, slightly narrower 

 behind the antennal insertion (between the middle and apex) than in front, 

 closely and rugosely but not coarsely punctured near the extremity, ir- 

 regularly and rather indefinitely tricarinate and j)unctate behind, abruptly 

 constricted at the base. Thorax very little broader than long, conical, 

 base bisinuate, its obtuse angles resting on the elytra, it is much narrowed 

 towards the rufescent apex, which is sometimes a Little constricted ; the 

 disc rather coarsely closely and more or less confluently punctured, in- 

 terstices irregularly rugose, the lateral sculptm'e granular ; it bears a few 

 squamae, the setae are most apparent at the sides. Elytra rather wider 

 than thorax at the base ; the shoulders prominent, but obtuse in front ; 

 they are subparallel as far as the hind tlxighs, moderately narrowed but not 

 abruptly dechvous behind ; they are rather strongly punctate-striate, 

 more sharply impressed behind than on the dorsum with rugose and asperate 

 interstices, the sides apparently have coarse serial punctures ; the setae 

 are most conspicuous towards the sides and extremity. 



Scape slender, not quite reaching the eye ; 2nd joint of fmiiculus sub- 

 clavate at apex and obviously longer than the basal one, 3-6 short and nearly 

 equal, 7th larger, about as broad as'the oblong-oval, triarticulate, finely 

 pubescent club. 



