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Oreda, White. 



Antennae with the first joint scarcely reaching to the eye, 

 somewhat bent and with a longish club at the end, second 

 joint small, rounded (others broken off) ; head not so long 

 as the thorax, beak depressed, with two very distinct, broad 

 mandibles at the end ; antennae spring from the end of a 

 groove, which begins before the middle of the beak and ex- 

 tends to the eye ; eyes round, moderate, flattened, situated 

 at the base of beak in an angle, and slightly directed for- 

 wards ; under part of head large, bulging and rounded ; 

 thorax in front above nan-owed and tubular, sides much 

 rounded, behind truncated and somewhat bisinuated ; ely- 

 tra in front of about the same width as the thorax behind, 

 near the apex somewhat depressed, the tip rounded, the 

 edge of elytra widely sinuated ; pygidium not exposed ; 

 legs shortish, stout, femora notched at the end, a wide 

 groove between the fore legs. 



This genus seems to come near Piazorus, Schonh. 



Ori 



NOTATA. PI. 3,Jlff. 



Deep, rich blackish brown, the beak very finely punc- 

 tured, a slight groove in a small smooth space on the up- 

 per side of beak between the antennae ; thorax thickly 

 punctured, with black scales in many of the punctures, and 

 two small spots of yellow scales, one on each side in front, 

 each of the posterior angles with a transverse line of yel- 

 low scales ; elytra with distinct, longitudinal grooves, 

 which are punctured and shining black, with small scat- 

 tered patches of yellowish scales. 



Length, 5 lines. 



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



The only specimen of this insect which I have seen is 

 much mutilated, the fore legs and the greater part of an- 

 tennae being broken off. It has much the appearance, 

 at first sight, of Pissodes Pini. 



Aldonus, White. 



Antennae moderate, first joint not reaching to the eye, 

 very slightly bent and gradually thickened to the end ; fu- 

 niculus seven-jointed, first and second joints longish, the 

 second longer than the first and considerably thickened at 

 the end, the last five joints somewhat cup-shaped, gi-adual- 

 ly wider to the end, the club being hardly distinct from 

 the funiculus, ovate, slightly pointed and indistinctly 

 thi-ee-jointed ; beak rather long, not thickened at the end, 

 the sides nearly parallel, side antennal groove beginning 

 before the middle and continued to the eye, widening be- 

 hind ; thorax somewhat contracted in front, rounded on 

 the sides, with a considerable lobe on each side of hind 

 margin, which has two wide sinuations on the middle part, 

 above somewhat depressed ; scutellum very small and con- 

 siderably sunk ; elytra with the sides for a good space 

 parallel, the end rounded and completely covering the ab- 

 domen ; legs moderate in length and thickness, femora 

 somewhat compres.sed, deeply notched on the underside 

 near the end ; a wide groove on the under side of thorax 

 extending to the base of second pair of legs. 



Aldoncs hylobioides. pi. 'i,Jig. 9. 



Black, thickly covered with grayish yellow scales ; tho- 

 rax thickly punctured ; elytra with several longitudinal 

 lines, deeply punctured, thickly covered with grayish yel- 

 low scales, sprinkled with black, some small, irregular 

 black marks on elytra, especially about the middle and 

 near the end; under side of body black, rather deeply 

 punctate, with a few scattered, yellowish gray hairs ; legs 

 black, rather thickly covered with yellowish gray hairs. 



Length, 5f lines. 



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



In Capt. Parry's collection there is another specimen 

 not half the size of the above, and differing from it some- 

 what in marking, but in other respects so similar that I can 

 only regard it as a small variety. There is a waved, black 

 line on the side of each elytron. 



EUTHYRHINUS SQUAMIGER. PL 3,Ji(J. 3. 



Beak straight ; thorax very narrow in front, somewhat 

 flattened above ; elytra at the base near the scutellum, 

 with a rounded, prominent lobe, between which and the 

 sharpish-pointed shoulder is a considerable sinuation, 

 above .slightly striated longitudinally, behind very sharp- 

 pointed ; head, thorax and elytra with round scales of 

 black and white mixed, front of thorax just behind the 

 crown of head with two tufts of whitish hairs ; femora ra- 

 ther thicker in the middle, with a considerable notch at the 

 end ; legs covered with whitish scales. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Observatory). 



This species in size and general appearance is closely 

 allied to Euthyrhinus meditabundus. Cheer. Schonh, (Cnr- 

 culio meditabundus, Fairicius Ent. Syst. II. 432). 



Rhynchodes, White. 



Beak slightly thickened at the end and somewhat bent 

 throughout, the antennal groove extending to the eye ; 

 thorax in front narrowed, sides bulging, somewhat flattened 

 above; scutellum a roundish raised knob; elytra elongated, 

 covering the abdomen ; sides compressed and parallel, 

 suddenly sloping to the end, which is sharp-pointed the 

 back is very convex, transversely and longitudinally, deeply 

 grooved, at the base, near the scutellum rounded, near the 

 margin sinuated ; legs with the femora nearly of equal 

 thickness, slightly sinuated beneath near the end. 



This genus approaches closely to Euthyrhinus of Che- 

 vrolat. 



Rhynchodes ursds. PI. 3,/. 16. 



Deep brown ; the thorax with two longitudinal bands of 

 a lighter colour near the side ; elytra above with five rows 

 of hairs, on each side of which is a row of very deep punc- 

 tures, between every two of which is a smoothish ridge ; 

 across the elytra are two obscure, dai-k brown bands ; legs 

 black, femora above at the end with a spot of yellowish 

 brown hairs ; abdomen beneath with the last segment 

 having two tufts of hair. 



Length, 10^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mr. Earl. 



