114 'frdnsortiuns. 



The nearly bald surface distinguishes this species. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 9 mm. ; breadth, nearly 3| mm. 



Mount Hector, Tararua Range. Described from a specimen on card- 

 board sent by Mr. A. O'Connor for examination. It was found under a 

 stone at an elevation of about 5,000 ft. 



3282. Clypeorhynchus caudatus sp. nov. 



Subopaque, piceo-fuscous, the tibiae, antennae, and apex of rostrum 

 more or less rufo-piceous ; sparingly clothed with decumbent yellow setae. 



Rostrum rather shorter than thorax, indistinctly bicarinate, longi- 

 tudinally impressed medially, with ill-defined sculpture, its glabrous apical 

 portion slightly convex and finely punctate. Head rugose. Thorax just 

 as broad as it is long, narrower in front than at the base, rather wider before 

 the middle than elsewhere ; very slightly uneven, with granular and rugose 

 sculpture, the median longitudinal impression deeper near the front and 

 base than on the middle. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra more than 

 twice the length of thorax, evidently broader, with rounded humeral angles, 

 the base, nevertheless, slightly wider than that of the thorax ; they are 

 rather gradually narrowed posteriorly, with prolonged and subacuminate 

 apices ; on each elytron there are 5 discoidal punctated striae, the outer 

 pair with subquadrate and coarser punctures than the others, but along 

 the posterior declivity the punctures are absent ; the 4th and 6th inter- 

 stices are a little elevated, particularly near the base, and unite before the 

 extremity ; all bear numerous fine granules. 



Underside moderately shining, pitchy brown, finely rugosely sculptured, 

 and sparsely covered with flavescent depressed setae. Metasternum 

 moderately convex, and as long as the basal ventral segment, which is 

 medially incurved behind and distinctly marked off from the nearly equally 

 elongate 2nd ; 3rd and 4th short, yet well developed ; 5th as long as the 

 preceding two combined. Prosternum rather short, incurved in front, 

 subgranulate. Epipleurae very narrow. Anterior coxae contiguous, inter- 

 mediate distinctly separated. 



This differs from C. calvulus in coloration, sculpture, vestiture, and 

 flatter eyes, and from all the other described species by the remarkable 

 prolongation of the elytral apices, which are even more robust than those 

 of InopJiloeus inuus (771). 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 10 mm. ; breadth, 3i mm. 



Mount Hector. A mutilated individual found under a stone, at an 

 elevation of 5,000 ft., by Mr. A. O'Connor. 



3283. Phemus curvipes sp. nov. PJiemus Broun, Man, N.Z. Coleopt.; 



p. 1214. 



Elongate, moderately convex, subopaque ; nigrescent, legs rufo-piceous, 

 antennae and tarsi pale ferruginous ; scantily clothed with slender flaves- 

 cent setae. 



Rostrum normal, pitchy red, slightly nitid, and very finely punctured 

 in front of the antennae, but, behind these, with coarse and close puncti- 

 form sculpture, and fine, interrupted, somewhat asperate costae. Thorax 

 slightly longer than broad, a little wider before the middle than elsewhere, 

 with a broad obvious groove from base to apex ; it is coarsely and mode- 

 rately closely punctated, but wath smooth though rather narrow intervals 

 behind ; its base not quite truncate. Elytra almost double the length of 



