150 Transactions. 



Tarsi elongate, basal joint longer than 2nd and 3rd combined ; claws 

 rufescent, distinctly toothed at the base. Eyes entire apparently, but with 

 some short grey setae encroaching on them in front. Antennae inserted 

 at the sides of the rostrum near the eyes. 



Resembles E. proximus (977), which differs in vestiture, and may be 

 separated by the absence of the dark posterior space, and by the white 

 pubescence extending from each shoulder and along the middle of the elytra 

 nearly to the apices. 



Length, 3| mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Silverstream, near Wellington, and Waimarino. Mr. A. O'Connor sent 

 me a specimen captured at the former locality ; and, at the latter, two 

 were found by myself, on different trees, at a height of 2,700 ft., in January, 

 1910. 



3337. Anthribus cornutellus sp. nov. Anthribus Geoffroy, Man. N.Z. 



Coleopt., p. 545. 



Fuscous, legs and antennae fusco-rufous, the middle of the tibiae and 

 apices of the tarsal joints fuscous ; vestiture variegate, the head and 

 rostrum with yellowish hairs, but with a grey patch between the eyes and 

 antennae ; thorax with irregularly distributed pubescence so that some 

 parts are nearly bare, the yellowish hairs most numerous along the middle ; 

 elytra still more variegated, yellowish hairs predominate, on the elevated 

 parts particularly, but broad longitudinal streaks are formed of alternate 

 blackish and nearly white spots. 



Head and rostrum as broad as the front of thorax and almost as long 

 as it is, with a pair of distinct spiniform tubercles midway between the 

 eyes and antennae. Eyes semicircularly emarginate in front. Thorax of 

 equal length and breadth, widest behind the middle, its sides moderately 

 rounded, the disc distinctly and closely punctured ; the carina is distant 

 from the elytra, angulate in front of the scutellum, oblique and indistinctly 

 sinuate towards each side, obtusely angulate there, and extending along 

 the side nearly as far as the middle, where it ends abruptly Scutellum 

 yellowish, small. Elytra oblong, uneven, with, on each, a large basal, a 

 post-median, and a pair of much smaller subapical nodosities ; their puncta- 

 tion moderately fine, close, and seriate. 



Antennae about a fourth longer than the body, their basal two joints 

 short and thick, and densely pubescent ; joints 3-8 elongate, decreasing 

 gradually in length, somewhat nodiform at the extremity ; the 9th as long 

 as the 8th and very gradually expanded, 10th and 11th longer than broad, 

 11th with a terminal appendage or false joint. 



Nos. 969, 970, 1317, 2228, and 2229 are congeneric or nearly related. 

 This is the most distinctly marked species of the series. 



Length, 6 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Tarukenga, near Rotorua. I found a male many years ago, just before 

 the railway was formally opened for traffic. 



3338. Anthribus levinensis sp. nov. 



Variegate, to a great extent rufo-fuscous, the elytra particularly, legs 

 fusco-testaceous, the middle of tibiae and the tips of tarsal joints blackish; 

 antennae fusco-rufous, their basal two joints and the apex of the 3rd 

 densely pubescent ; head and rostrum thickly covered with greyish-yellow 

 liairs mixed with some of a light brown ; this latter colour is the prevailing 



