Rhynchodes Saundersii. pi. 3,/. 13. 



Covered with a light, gray down, the hairs of which run 

 in different directions ; thorax closely punctured, a short 

 ridge in the middle behind ; elytra on upper part with 

 three double rows of punctures, between every two of 

 which is a slight ridge ; antennae more slender and less 

 heavy than in R. ursus ; femora with the inside and the 

 tips above with short, grayish hairs. 



Length, 8^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Saunders. 



Stephanorhynchus, White. 

 Antennae long, slender, inserted on the upper part of the 

 side of the beak near the tip, first joint reaching to beyond 

 the eyes, slightly curved at the baise, thickened at the end in- 

 to a club; funiculus seven-jointed, firstjoint longest, thick- 

 ened at the end and very distinct from the others, the second 

 slightly elongated, other five almost globular, club almost 

 as long as funiculus, three-jointed, the first joint cup- 

 shaped, the second the longest, gradually thicker towards 

 the end, the terminal joint ovate and pointed at the end ; 

 beak long, thick, slightly bent, squareish ; an oblique, deep 

 groove from the base of antenns, terminating on side of 

 under part considerably before the eye, beak crested in the 

 middle in front of the eye, and on the vertex a considerable 

 prominence with two slight tufts ; head behind the eyes 

 strangulated ; eyes lateral, round, large, prominent, situ- 

 ated behind the middle of head ; thorax somewhat angu- 

 lated on the sides, narrow in front, almost straight behind ; 

 scutellum longer than wide ; elytra oblong, widest at base, 

 end bluntish, shoulders rectangular ; legs long, femora 

 thick, clavate, with a strong, compressed tooth on the un- 

 der side ; tibiae slender, those of first two pairs of legs 

 slightly curved, the tibiae of hind legs very much curved. 



Stephanorhynchus ccrvipes. PL 3,/. 11. 



Deep yellowish brown, varied with spots and lines of 

 different shades of colour ; legs yellowish, posterior femora 

 above with a black band ; elytra with two longish, keeled 

 protuberances, one on each side of the suture about the 

 middle. 



This species seems to vary much in colour, some speci- 

 mens being of a light, others of a darkish gray. 



Length, 85- to 4 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mus. Brit., Parry. 



This appears to be closely allied to a Brazilian insect 

 described by Fabricius from the Banksian collection, the 

 Curculio attelaboides, Fabr. Syst. El. II. 543, 227. Olivier. 

 Col. 522, t. 14,/. 174. 



Curculio mouestus. 

 Curculio modestus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. IL 453, 250. Oliv. 

 Col. t. 14,/ 178. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



EORHAMPHUS FASCICULATUS. 



Eurhamphus fasciculatus, Shuckard, Ent. Mag. V. 506, 

 t. 18. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



Dryophthorus, Sch. 

 Dryophthorus bituberculatus. pi. 3,/ 7. 



Dryophthorus bituberculatus, Schonh. Cure. IV. 1090. 



Curculio bituberculatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. I. 414, 90. 



Calandra bituberculata, Oliv. t. 13,/ 167. 



Pitchy brown ; antennas and legs reddish ; beak not 

 impressed at the base ; thorax deeply punctured, slightly 

 constricted within the tip, slightly rounded on the sides ; 

 elytra towards the tip somewhat attenuated, punctato-stri- 

 ated, the spaces between flattish, the points over the body 

 filled with grayish scales. 



Hab. New Zealand (in the wood of the Kaudi, Dammara 

 australis), varying much in size. From an oversight Fab- 

 ricius has described the thorax as two-tuberculated, the 

 elytra where they begin to be narrowed project a little, and 

 the name would seem to be derived from this circumstance. 

 In some of the specimens, longish, suberect, whitish scales 

 are mixed with the gray. It is very doubtful whether the 

 insect described by Schonherr and figured here, be the 

 Fabrician species. 



Family Trogositid.e. 

 Trggosita, Fabr. 

 Trogosita affinis. 

 Pitchy brown, with a depression on the vertex ; front of 

 the head in the middle without two little teeth, both head 

 and thorax rather deeply punctured ; elytra at the base 

 near the shoulder with a slight depression, the elytra in 

 other respects closely resemble those of the T. caraboides, 

 a very widely distributed sj^ecies. 

 licngth, 4 to 4j lines. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



Gymnocheila, G. R. Gray. 

 Gymnocheila nigro-spaesa. 



Deep, bronzy, greenish black ; the elytra nearly cover- 

 ed with gray scales, with several black spots ; head be- 

 tween the eyes with a deepish dej^ression, and a notch in 

 front of it, above rather deeply punctured, some of the 

 punctures elongated, behind and over the eyes a row of 

 gray scales ; thorax with two longitudinal fun-ows down 

 the middle, which are punctured and slightly squamose, 

 the sides hollowed out above and thickly punctured, the 

 punctures filled with gray scales, middle of thorax quite 

 smooth ; each of the elytra with seven longitudinal ridges, 

 the sides of the ridges punctured, the interstices filled with 

 grayish scales, with some patches of black scales, which 

 aremore erect than the others, the margin of elytra regu- 

 larly tesselated with patches of gray and black scales ; un- 

 der side and legs deep pitchy brown. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, in Kaudi wood, Dr. Hooker. 



Gymnocheila sobrina. 

 Grayish brown, with a ievf spots and bands of a brown- 

 ish black ; head in front of the eyes with two slight depres- 

 sions, separated by a notch ; thorax smooth in the middle, 



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