(5(i [August, 



had been doubled in thickness, and probably this insect had to wait for 

 its escape until the puparium in front was freed. Two other stems, 

 about two and a half inches in length, contained two pupa-skins in 

 each, with their tails towards each other ; three shorter pieces of stem 

 had in each one pupa-skin ; another stem three inches long was like 

 all the others in being well lined with silk, it held a single diaphragm, 

 but was otherwise empty. 



Emsworth : June llth, 1883. 



SOME NEW SPECIES AND GENERA OF COLEOPTERA FROM 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



BY D. SHARP, M.B. 

 {Concluded from p. 27). 



SAPHORHYNCHUS, n. y. 



Auteunje inserted near together, on the front of the sides of the 

 rostrum behind its middle, elongate ; scape elongate, reaching con- 

 siderably beyond the eyes ; club elongate and slender. Rostrum 

 longer than the thorax, curved, thickened at point of the insertion of 

 the antennae, in front of this smooth and cylindrical ; parts of the 

 mouth small, mandibles but little exposed: scrobes deep and large in 

 front, visible from the front, short, passing backwards, becoming 

 rapidly vague and not attaining the eye. Eyes oval ; thorax in front 

 with ocular lobe, touching and slightly covez'ing the hind margin of 

 the eye. Thorax convex, front margin of presternum emarginate ; 

 no rostral channel ; front coxse quite contiguous ; metasternum rather 

 elongate ; abdominal sutures straight ; tarsi well developed, the three 

 basal joints densely clothed with pile beneath, 3rd joint broad and 

 short, deeply cleft ; claws very divergent. 



This a]:)pears to be another very anomalous form of Cuj^culionidce, 

 and I cannot point out any near ally for it ; the insertion of the 

 antennfe far back on the rostrum, but near the front, so that they are 

 less separated than usual, the insertion taking place on an incrassation, 

 so that the scrobes, very deep at the insertion, are almost provided with 

 pterygia, together with the elongate scape, seem to suggest that the 

 insect is an isolated form that may be placed between Olypeorhynchus 

 and the Australian Rhinaria. 



Saphobhtnchus longicoenis, n. sp. 

 Angustulus, convexus, 2)iccus, corpore, cumqiie ptdibus, f/riseo- 



