Broun. — iSlew Genera and Species of Coleuptera. Ill 



Legs with elongate, curled, fulvescent setae. 



In P. intricatus (1508) the posterior declivity is striate. P. terreus has 

 no rostral crests. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 5| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 

 Wairiri, Kaikoura. Found by Mr. W. L. Wallace. 



3278. Phrynixus binodosus sp. nov. 



Opaque, fusco-piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; the coarse 

 squaniiform setae irregularly distributed, chiefly ferruginous, those on the 

 shoulders flavescent. 



Rostrum arched, truncate at apex, nearly plane and indistinctly punc- 

 tate before the antennae, behind these with many coarse erect setae which 

 do not form definite crests. Thorax rather longer than broad, a little 

 narrower in front than at the base, where it is medially depressed ; the 

 coarse setae form a fringe, irregular, however, along each side, and become 

 more approximated and prominent in front, those on the disc are sub- 

 depressed and hide the punctures ; a few minute tubercles also may be 

 detected. Elytra short, just about as long as broad, the base distinctly 

 bisinuate, so that the suture, though somewhat depressed, seems projecting; 

 they are abruptly perpendicular behind, and thinly clad and striate there ; 

 disc moderately coarsely seriate-punctate near the suture, the squamiform 

 setae there are depressed ; outside this area the surface, as well as the sides, 

 are tuberculate or tufted ; exactly on top of the declivity there is a pair of 

 large, distant, setigerous nodosities, and another of smaller ones a little 

 lower down, quite at the sides. 



Legs with curled setae, tibiae mucronate, terminal joint of tarsi as long 

 as the basal three combined. Antennae inserted immediately before the 

 middle, finely setose ; scape moderately clavate at the extremity ; 2nd 

 joint of funiculus as long as the 1st, joints 3-6 subquadrate, 7th rather 

 larger ; club ovate, triarticulate, its basal joint half of the whole length, 

 the others indistinct. 



The abruptly vertical posterior declivity and the pair of large nodo- 

 sities on its summit, in conjunction with the slight scutellar depression 

 and basally prominent suture, show that this species should be located 

 apart from all the others except, perhaps, P. brevipennis (2545). 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 4 mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Greymouth. I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Lewis for my specimen. 



3279. Lithocia acuminata sp. nov. Lithocia Broun, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 1470. 



Opaque, fusco-niger, antennae and tarsi obscure ferruginous ; irregu- 

 larly crested with pale-yellowish setae. 



Rostrum much arched, quite as long as thorax ; very slightly expanded, 

 nearly nude and punctate in front, with a pair of very elongate crests behind 

 the antennae and a slight median carina near the eyes. Thorax of about 

 equal length and breadth, a little constricted in front ; moderately coarsely, 

 very irregularly, but not closely punctured, medially depressed as the base ; 

 with a pair of conspicuous frontal crests, which are curvedly prolonged, 

 but less elevated, towards the hind angles, and with a much smaller ante- 

 median crest. Elytra quite double the length of thorax, of about the same 

 width as it is at the base, considerably broader at the middle, and very 

 much narrowed and acuminate behind ; the discoidal punctures are sub- 



