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a large patch along the middle, and another, but smaller, at each side ; 

 all these are fiavescent and curled, as are those on the head ; on the tibiae 

 they are greyish, curled, and coarse. 



Eostrum a third shorter than thorax, stout, subparallel, nearly glabrous 

 in front. Thorax obtusely prominent laterally before the middle, and at 

 that part a third broader than long, base and apex truncate ; disc a little 

 uneven but without well-marked sculpture. Elytra subovate, very little 

 wider than thorax at the base, their length, but not the breadth, twice 

 that of the thorax, posterior declivity nearly vertical ; with moderately 

 coarse, distinctly separated, serial punctures ; the declivity substriate. 



Tibiae flexuous, the anterior evidently inwardly mucronate. Scape 

 thick, opaque, bearing slender, bent, pale setae ; funiculus sparsely and 

 finely setose, 2nd joint as long as the 1st, both elongate, joints 3-7 differ 

 but little, none transverse ; club ovate, finely pubescent, indistinctly tri- 

 articulate. 



Underside somewhat rufescent, with numerous depressed yelloAvish-grey 

 setae, without distinct sculpture. 



The rostrum is not pterygiate, but the short, deep, and broad scrobes, 

 which are quite open above, cause the upper portion, near the front, to 

 appear narrower than the lower. The eyes are rather flat. Anterior coxae 

 almost contiguous. 



The other species — 2102, 2535, and 755 — may be at once distinguished 

 by their outstanding straight setae. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 3| mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



Retaruke, near Erua. Another species, of which I obtained two speci- 

 mens, amongst the leaf-mould collected by Captain H. S. Whitehorn. 



Getopsephus gen. nov. 



Body subovate, moderately convex, clothed with small depressed 

 squamae. 



Rostrum a fourth shorter than the thorax and about half its breadth, 

 slightly dilated near the apex. Scrobes quite open above for most of their 

 length, beginning near the extremity but not quite reaching the lower 

 part of the eyes. Scape gradually incrassate, attaining the middle of the 

 eye. Funiculus 7-articulate, 2nd joint rather longer than the basal, 3rd 

 slightly longer than 4th, both slender at the base, joints 4-7 moniliform. 

 Club elongate-oval, triarticulate, its joints of about equal length. Eyes 

 very slightly prominent, subrotundate, widely distant above, the space 

 between each and the front of the thorax not greater than its own length. 

 Thorax a little broader than long, base and apex truncate, ocular lobes 

 obsolete. Scutellum depressed. Elytra rather broader than thorax at 

 the base, oblong-oval, their apices, however, are subacuminate but not 

 prolonged. 



Tibiae slightly flexuous, the anterior moderately mucronate ; posterioi- 

 corbels apparently simple, but, on the outside, with double cilia separated 

 by a narrow truncature. Tarsi glabrous along the middle, their soles 

 elsewhere densely brush-like ; 3rd joint moderately expanded and deeply 

 bilobed. 



Prosternum widely incurved in front. Metasterrium, in the middle, 

 rather shorter than the basal ventral segment, which, at the sides, is but 

 little longer than the 2nd, the following two are moderately short, the 

 5th elongate and obconical. Epipleurae linear, but thickened at the 

 extremity. Anterior coxae contiguous, the intermediate moderately, the 



