132 Transarfions. 



Eyes subrotundate, with distinct facets, just about as far apart as they 

 are distant from the thorax. Ocular lobes absent. Prosternum not ab- 

 breviated. 



The robust and remarkably elongate front legs, together with the 

 apparently bare spots near the extremity of the elytra, are good aids to 

 identification. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 3 mm. ; breadth, H mm. 



Broken River, Canterbury. Named after its discoverer, Mr. J. H. 

 Lewis, who sent me a single individual. 



Obs. — This does not quite agree with the type of the genus (804\ on 

 account of the dentate front thighs ; neither can it accord with the Euro- 

 pean Anthononms varians, with which I compared it, as in it the base of 

 the thorax is strongly bisinuate, that of the elytra being correspondingly 

 curved outwardly, &c. As the specimen is carefully mounted on card- 

 board it must remain so. Its systematic position is between these two 

 genera. 



Group Cryptorhynchidae. 



33n. Psepholax acanthomerus sp. nov. Psepholax White, Man. N.7. 

 Coleopt., p. 478. 



Convex, oblong, subopaque, rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed with 

 elongate flavescent squamae and slender setae, some of which are dark 

 and erect ; antennae and tarsi pitchy red. 



Rostrum with deep scrobes ; the sides underneath these much thickened, 

 and terminating abruptly some distance from the eyes ; it is a fourth shorter 

 than the thorax, with an elongate interantennal fovea which is prolonged 

 backwards as a shallow groove, its punctation is somewhat indistinct, and 

 becomes rugose behind the eyes. Thorax subtnmcate at the base, medially 

 emarginate at the apex, about a third broader than long, the sides curvedly 

 narrowed anteriorly, and a good deal, but not abruptly, contracted in 

 front ; with a short smooth central line, and distinct moderately close 

 punctures, which, however, become indefinite in front. Scutellum tri- 

 angular. Elytra oblong, as wide as thorax at the base, nearly vertical 

 behind ; they are substriate, with rugose almost asperate interstices ; 

 the sides, behind the posterior femora, bear numerous spines, these are small 

 and short where they begin, but coarse and prominent where they suddenly 

 end, at some distance from the apex ; on each elytron there are 4 series 

 of unequal spines, the inner pair arise in line with the hind thighs and end 

 on top of the apical declivity, the outer pair extend further back ; the 

 declivity bears Some dark adpressed scales, so that its sculpture seems 

 granular. 



Antennae short and stout, with a few slender greyish setae ; the scape 

 just reaches the eye ; basal joint of funiculus short and thick, 2nd rather 

 longer and distinctly narrowed towards its base, joints 3-7 compact and 

 transverse ; club oblong-oval, densely and minutely pubescent and in- 

 distinctly triarticulate. 



Femora deeply notched near the extremity, sharply angulate and 

 strongly dentate underneath, the anterior particularly ; intermediate 

 tibiae strongly bidentate externally below the middle, the posterior pair 

 less so. 



Metasternum deeply depressed between the coxae. Second ventral 

 segment with grey scales, the 5th finely and distantly punctate and setose. 



