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and close. Scutellum small, rotundate, yellowish. Elytra cordiform, the 

 elevated shoulders are obliquely narrowed to the width of the thorax a': 

 the base, the disc is on a higher plane than its base, the posterior declivity 

 is not abrupt ; they are narrowly striate behind, with fine indistinct 

 punctures ; at the middle of the base 2 short series of punctures are easily 

 discernible, the lateral punctures are much coarser and irregular ; . on each 

 elytron, at the base, there is a pair of small elevations, the outer one is 

 prolonged and ends as a crested nodosity at the front and outer angle of 

 the pale area, along the side and between it and the middle there are 

 6 nodules or crests, and on the hind slope there are several much smallei' 

 ones. 



Antennae implanted before the middle, scape gradually incrassate ; 

 2nd joint of funiculus of about the same length as the basal, 7th broader 

 than its predecessor ; club oblong-oval, distinctly triarticulate. 



Pectoral canal deep, its raised borders extend to the back of the middle 

 coxae. Metasternum short, slightly incurved behind. Basal ventral seg- 

 ment broadly impressed, twice the length of the 2nd in the middle, this 

 latter slopes towards the lower level of the 3rd and 4th, 5th nearly as long 

 as the preceding two conjointly, it is covered with pale elongated scales 

 on the middle, but is dark and deeply impressed at each side of the apex ; 

 the squamae on the metasternum and basal segment are pale-yellowish, 

 on the 3rd and 4th and sides of the 2nd they are dark ; all, as well as those 

 on the femora, are intermingled with crimson ones. 



C. dorsalis (2952) is the nearest ally ; in it the pale area on the elytra 

 extends from the base, and the punctation is quite distinct and regular. 



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



Makatote, Main Trunk Railway. Unique. Picked out of a bag of 

 leaf-mould which Mr. W. J. Guinness kindly collected and forwarded in 

 February, 1910. 



3323. Tychanopais fiavisparsus sp. nov. Ti/chaiiopais Broun, Man.. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 1379. 



Convex, ovate-oblong, dull smoky black, antennae and terminal joint 

 of tarsi fusco-rufous ; sparingly clothed with depressed, irregularly dis- 

 tributed yellow and grey squamae, the former predominant, on the thorax 

 there are a few that are quite black. 



Rostrum not arched, a third shorter than the thorax, moderately broad, 

 slightly narrowed medially, rather coarsely punctate, more closely near the 

 extremity. Head with a narrow interocular fovea. Thorax subtruncate 

 at base, its anterior half gradually contracted, of equal length and breadth ; 

 erect black squamae form an apical fringe, which, however, is notched 

 in the middle ; the discoidal punctures are distinct, but not coarse, and 

 very unevenly distributed, leaving a central spot smooth. Elytra oblong, 

 almost exactly the same width as thorax at the base ; the shoulders 

 minutely projecting forwards ; they are somewhat broader, but nearly 

 straight, near the middle ; the posterior declivity is almost vertical and 

 much narrowed, they are only a third longer than the thorax ; the punctures 

 are seriate near the suture, but irregular, with uneven intervals, towards 

 the sides, all are coarse and rather distant, on the declivity they are narrow 

 and elongate ; the crests on the 3rd and 5th interstices, on the summit 

 of the declivity, are black, tipped with grey, those before the middle of the 

 disc are less distinct, the declivity is marked with small patches of yellow 

 suberect scales. 



