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Family CEdemerid.e. 



Selenopalpus, White. 



Palpi of male with the last joint very large, subfalcale 

 and lunate at end ; head depressed and somewhat elon- 

 gated; mandibles sharp, curved, without teeth on the edge; 

 antennsc eleven-jointed; second joint shortest, the other 

 joints cylindrical, the terminal somewhat thickened about 

 the middle and pointed at the end ; thorax somewhat lon- 

 ger than broad, rather depressed above, bulging out before 

 the middle ; elytra elongated ; hind legs with the femora 

 bent and thickened and grooved beneath ; tibia; flattened 

 posterior edge undulated ; in the female the last joint of 

 palpi is not much wider than the preceding, and the 

 hind-legs are simple like the preceding. 



Selenopalpus chalybeus. 



Deep steel blue ; the antennae, palpi and jaws black ; 

 thorax in front and behind slightly turned up ; on the back 

 with two or three depressions ; elytra finely punctured 

 with two longitudinal ribs near the suture. 



Hab. New Zealand (,y $). 



Selenopalpus subviridis. 



Bluish-green ; the elytra with short depressed hairs ; 

 thorax above even. 



Hab. New Zealand ( 2 ) Waimate. 



The Dryops cyanea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 76. 5, seems 

 closely allied to this. 



Family Bruchid^e. 

 Anthribus incertus. pi. 3,Ji(/. 6. 



Thorax slightly rounded and ridged behind, in front 

 pointed in the middle ; above minutely and thickly punc- 

 tured and slightly grooved down the middle, sprinkled 

 with greyish hairs ; elytra with nine longitudinal stria; 

 deeply punctured, nearly obsolete at the end ; both the 

 elytra and thorax in unrubbed specimens are most likely 

 covered with grayish scaly hairs ; under-side of body 

 closely covered with ash-coloured hairs ; antennfe with 

 three terminal joints flattened and much dilated, the first 

 eight somewhat moniliform. 



Length, 2f lines. 



Hab. N. Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



Family Brentid^. 

 Brentus cylinbricornis. 



Brentus cylindricomis, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. II. 494. 9. 



Beak dull ferruginous; antennne twice the length of the 

 thorax, dull ferruginous, with cylindrical joints ; thorax 

 rounded, bronzy black, very much polished, not chanelled; 

 elytra blunt, striated, ferruginous, with numerous short yel- 

 low lines, which at the base and tip nearly form a band ; 

 femora toothed. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Brentus barbicounis. 



Brentus barbicomis, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. II. 491. 1. ^ 

 Brentus assimilLs, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 491. 2. S 



Male. Beak very long, with a line of close-set hairs 

 beneath : elytra elongated, clubbed at the end. 



Female. Beak short, smooth below. 



Hab. in the wood of Kaudi Pine. Dr. Hooker, Dr. 

 Sinclair. 



Rhinaria sex-tuberculata. pi. S,Jiff. 8. 



Black, covered with gray hairs lying in different direc- 

 tions ; two black streaks on thorax parallel with the sides ; 

 elytra varied with black spots, continuous on the margin 

 and sutures ; each of the elytra ^vith three large, somewhat 

 compressed tubercles, one near the base close to the suture, 

 one near the middle and rather closer to the suture than 

 the side-margin, the last near the tip and closer to the mar- 

 gin than the suture ; elytra with a slight tail and notch be- 

 tween the suture and tail ; beak from the eye to the end 

 as long as thorax, slightly thickened at the end ; antennae 

 as long as the head and thorax, situated midway near the 

 lower part; third joint the longest and most slender; fifth 

 joint slightly thickened at the end ; the next five joints 

 more so and flattened ; the terminal joint conical at the 

 end ; thorax narrow in front ; legs with gray scales and 

 hairs ; two rings of whitish hairs on the tibia;. 



Length, 6|- lines. 



Hab. Port Nicholson, Mr. Earl. 



This species is nearly allied to another New Zealand 

 species in the Banksian cabinet, the Curculio tridens, 

 Fabr. Syst. El. II. 537, 186. Oliv. Col. t. 13,/. 154 (Rhi- 

 naria tridens). 



Family Curculionid^. 

 Brachyolus, White. 



Antennae longish, rather stout, funiculus seven-jointed ; 

 basal joint of antenna; as long as the head, but not the 

 length of the other joints taken together; club ovate, 

 pointed, indistinctly jointed ; beak short, considerably 

 thickened ; eyes oblong, not very prominent ; thorax near- 

 ly square, rather wider in front than behind ; scutellum 

 not visible ; elytra taken together cordate ; at the base of 

 each in the middle a tubercle directed backwards ; at the 

 tip bluntish ; legs short and stout. 



This genus comes near Cyclomus and Otiorhynchus : it 

 is densely covered with scales. 



Brachyolus punctatus. PL 3,Jig 5. 



Pale ochrey yellow ; thorax above rather deeply pitted, 

 behind brownish yellow ; elytra with a transverse yellow- 

 ish brown band, with many longitudinal lines of rather 

 deep points ; on each elytron near the end are two protu- 

 berances, the innermost largest. 



Length, 2^ to 3 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Capt. Parrj'. 



