Broun. — Neiv Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 123 



Underside fuscous, punctate, and with fine grey setae. Basal ventral 

 segment broadly impressed, the 5th with a hroad median longitudinal 

 impression. 



Femora clavate but not dentate ; tibiae sUghtly flexuous, the anterior 

 mucronate. Scape inserted before the middle, attaining the eye, slender. 

 Funiculus with slender elongate grey hairs ; basal joint elongate and 

 gradually incrassate ; 2nd rather longer than 4th ; the 7th transverse, 

 shorter and broader than 6th. Club triarticulate, about half the length 

 of the funiculus, densely pubescent. Ocular lobes absent. Eyes trans- 

 verse, free from thorax, distinctly faceted, and rather fiat. 



We have no other similar species. 



(J. Length (rostrum inclusive), 5i- mm. ; breadth, If mm. 



Mount Quoin, Tararua Eange. A single individual sent by Mr. H, 

 Simmonds, who found it feeding on Olearia Colensoi. 



3294. Erirhinus exilis sp. nov. 



Slender, elongate, shghtly convex and nitid, very sparingly clothed with 

 minute grey setae ; fulvescent, legs and antennae testaceous, club fuscous. 



Rostrum moderately slender, parallel, obviously longer than thorax, 

 indistinctly sulcate. Thorax about as long as broad, rather narrower in 

 front than behind, distinctly but not very closely punctured, without ocular 

 lobes. Scutellum small. Elytra rather broader than thorax at the base 

 and quite tAvice its length, closely punctate-striate, with simple interstices. 



Legs moderately stout, unarmed ; 3rd tarsal joint expanded and deeply 

 lobed. Antennae inserted between the middle and apex of the rostrum ; 

 basal joint of funiculus thick, 2nd longer than 3rd, joints 4-7 transverse, 

 the last broadest ; club ovate, densely pubescent, feebly triarticulate. 



Underside fulvescent, with numerous grey setae, moderately coarsely 

 but not closely punctured. Presternum incurved in front, the metasternura 

 with a short median groove behind ; basal ventral segment distinctly de- 

 pressed in the middle. 



Female. — Rostrum more elongate and finely sculptured. Antennae im- 

 planted just before the middle. 



(?. Length (rostrum inclusive), 2J mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Erua ; January, 1910. A dozen examples shaken ofE shrubs. There 

 is no species at all hke this. 



3295. Dorytomus maorinus sp. nov. Dorytomus Germar, Man. N.Z. 



Coleopt., p. 453. 



Elongate, subdepressed, slightly nitid, nearly glabrous, having only 

 some minute greyish setae ; fulvescent, the thorax rufous, club infuscate. 



Rostrum arched, slender, and elongate, rather longer than thorax, very 

 slightly expanded towards the extremity, finely bisulcate behind the an- 

 tennae. Eyes distinctly faceted, situated in front of the short globose 

 head and touching the sides of the rostrum. Thorax without ocular lobes, 

 truncate at base and apex, with moderately rounded sides ; it is a little 

 broader than long, closely and distinctly punctate. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra very elongate, thrice the length of the thorax, gradually narrowed 

 posteriorly, apices singly rounded, the base slightly oblique towards the 

 suture and evidently wider than that of the thorax ; they are closely and 

 regularly punctate-striate from base to apex, with shghtly elevated almost 

 impunctate interstices. 



