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truncated, longer than wide ; elytra spined ; femora of 

 hind legs with a strong, compressed spine on the under- 

 side near the end ; tibiae considerably bent at the base. 



SCOLOPTERDS TETRACANTHUS. 



Head and thorax deep black ; elytra greenish bronze, 

 the spines pui-phsh black, the femora purplish black, the 

 remainder of the legs purplish feiTUginous ; head and tho- 

 rax quite smooth ; elytra very deeply punctured in lines, 

 the shoulders produced into a thick angular spine directed 

 outwards and very slightly upwards ; each elytron about 

 the middle with a strong spine near the suture directed 

 somewhat backwards and tufted with hair at the end ; the 

 intermediate femora with a compressed spine below near 

 the end. 



Length, 3f lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



SCOLOPTERUS PENICILLATUS. PI. 3,^(/. 10. 



Head and thorax black, the latter with a fine purplish 

 hue ; elytra of a glossy olive brown ; legs all black ; head 

 and thorax very smooth ; elytra punctured in lines, but 

 not deeply, the shoulder with a bluntish, not very promi- 

 nent angle ; about the middle of the elytra a high, regular 

 conical protuberance, blunt at the top and with a pointed 

 tuft of black hairs ; middle femora with a distinct tooth 

 near the end. 



Length, 2i lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



SCOLOPTERUS BIDENS. PL S,Jll/. 12. 



Curculio bidens, Fahr. Syst. Ent. 136, 51. Oliv. Col. 

 t. 10,/. 113. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Ancistropterus, White. 

 Head and thorax much nan-ower than the elytra at the 

 base ; eyes verj- large ; beak long, very slightly curved, 

 somewhat thickened at the end ; mandibles prominent, 

 thick and somewhat bent at the end; antennae very long, 

 springing from a depression on the upper side of the 

 back near the end, the scape reaching a little beyond 

 the eyes, nearly as long as the rest of antennas, se- 

 cond joint as long as third and fourth together, and 

 at the end double their thickness, club long, somewhat 

 pointed at the end, formed apparently of three joints, 

 the two last closely united ; elytra together triangular, the 

 shoulders hooked, the hook standing out, each elytron 

 about the middle with a strong, somewhat erect spine, 

 bristly at the end ; legs long, femora slightly clavate, with 

 a small tooth below near the end. 



Ancistropterus qcadrispinosos. PI. i,fig. 14. 

 Head and thorax black, rather coarsely puncttired ; au- 

 tennce obscm-e, scape ferruginous ; thorax down the mid- 

 dle with a band of yellowish hairs ; elytra brownish red, 

 with longitudinal lines formed of deepish dots, the spines 



black, a narrow, straight line of white hairs runs from 

 behind the middle spines to the tip of each elytron ; under 

 side of body black ; legs light ferruginous. 



Length, 2| lines. 



Hab. Port Nicholson, New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



PSEPHOLAX. 



Psepholax, White, DieffenbaclCs New Zeal. H. 27.5. 



Beak short, perpendicularly bent down, wide, somewhat 

 dilated at the end ; antennae spring from the end of a deep 

 groove, twelve -jointed, first joint as long as the next seven 

 joints taken together, the tip nearly, if not quite, reaching 

 the eye, very smooth and gradually thickened to the end, the 

 second joint minute, the five preceding the club some- 

 what moniliform, club large, oval, pointed at the end (of 

 four joints ?), covered with minute hairs ; eyes roundish, 

 of an ovate elhptical form ; thorax behind nearly as wide 

 as the elytra at the base ; elytra widest a little behind the 

 base ; legs rather stout, femora thickened, those of the 

 first pair with the margin sinuated, bulging into a broad, 

 blunt tooth ; tibiae of second pair with a strong tooth near 

 the end. 



Psepholax sulcatus. PI. 3, Jig. 1. 



Psepholax sulcatus, Wliite, I. c. 



Deep pitchy, brownish black ; thorax above with three 

 distinct, brownish ashy lines, the lateral ones broadest and 

 somewhat irregular, these lines are formed by distinct, co- 

 loured scales ; elytra ribbed, each with at least six raised 

 ribs, two of which meet at the end, some of them have 

 erect scales along the irregular edge, between each is a 

 line of impressed points, the sides of the elytra at the 

 broadest part are very hairy ; legs punctate and like the 

 under surface of the body, with brownish ashy hairs, long- 

 est on the posterior part of the tibiee and tarsi. 



Length, about 4 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Dr. Sinclair. 



Psepholax barbifrons. 



Beak with two longitudinal rows of ferruginous hairs on 

 the margin directed forwards ; thorax thickly punctured ; 

 elytra narrower than in P. sulcatus, with eight longitudinal 

 striae, the intervening spaces flat at the base, two of these 

 at the tip raised and crested with light brown scales; whole 

 insect deep brown, mixed with lighter coloured scales. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mr. Earl. 



Psepholax coron.atus. PI. 3, Jig. 4. 



Black ; thorax punctured, with three interrupted lines 

 of grayish scales ; elytra very slightly grooved, the base 

 with many slight, transverse rugosities, on the posterior 

 half a circle of erect spines, behind which are two or three 

 rows of shorter spines, near the base a transverse band of 

 grayish scales, under side of body covered with short, 

 gi-ayish hairs. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti), in the centre of a tree, 

 Mr. Earl. 



