lOi 2^ra//.saci/ojis. 



more elongate outline, nearly level and regularly piuictured elytral disc, and 

 the vestiture, are seen to be very different. 



Length: Male (rostrum inclusive). 13 mm.; breadth, li m^^^- Female: 

 14 X 6 mm. 



Pitt Island. 



Two damaged specimens from Mr. T. Hall's collection. 



Group Rhyparosomidae. 

 Phrynixus Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 432. 



77. Phrynixus asper sp. nov. 



Opaque, convex, subovate, piceo-fuscous, encrusted with light-brown 

 sappy jnatter ; rostrum and tarsi piceo-rufous ; body tuberciilate, irre- 

 gularly clothed with somewhat tawny, on some parts curled, squamiform 

 setae. 



Rostrum arched, rather shorter than thorax, indistinctly tricarinate in 

 front, with a setigerous tubercle before the eyes and a pair of smaller ones 

 close to the antennae. Thorax apparently oblong, actually, including 

 lateral tubercles, of equal length and breadth ; with a pair of apical tubercles 

 and a slight ridge between them, trituberculate across the middle, uneven 

 and medially depressed behind, a few coarse punctures and short rugae 

 may be seen, its sides also are uneven. Elytra about twice the length of 

 thorax, at the middle nearly twice as broad, posterior declivity almost 

 vertical, their shoulders porrect and crested with curled setae, the median 

 basal depression with ridged lateral borders ; on each elytron, when properly 

 cleaned, a dozen crested tubercles can be seen on the disc and sides, none 

 are very large ; there are also a few coarse punctures and small black 

 granules ; the posterior declivity is substriate-punctate. 



Legs moderately elongate, bearing somewhat flavescent setae ; tibiae 

 unarmed ; tarsi minutely setose above, basal two joints short, 3rd hardly 

 at all dilated, excavate but not lobed. 



Scape inserted in foveiform scrobes at or just behind the middle, flexuous. 

 slender, but clavate at the extremity ; it is setose and attains the back of 

 the eye. Funiculus rather densely clothed, and bearing also some elongate 

 setae ; 2nd joint not quite the length of the 1st, joints 3-6 short and some- 

 what moniliform, 7th obconical and not very much smaller than the ovate 

 club. Eyes subdepressed, about equidistant from the thorax and each 

 other, subrotundate or obliquely oval. No scutellum. 



Like the New Zealand P. astutus, 759, differing principally in the tri- 

 tuberculate rostrum and the larger 7th joint of the funiculus. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 4^ mm. ; breadth, 2h nim. 



Pitt Island. 



Mr. T. Hall. Rare. 



Group Cyljndrorhinida k. 



Hadramphus gen. nov. 



Rostrum slightly dilated at apex, nearly as long as thorax, very gradually 

 expanded behind. Head short, convex, not at all abruptly broader than 

 the rostrum. Scrobes visible above near the extremity, deep, rectilinear, 

 and extending to the front and lower part of the eyes. Scape inserted 

 near the apex, straight, haixlly attaining the eye. Funiculus 7-articulate ; 



