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little darker in colour than the antennse ; head with a few golden-yellow 

 hairs. Thorax longer than broad, narrowest in front, with rounded 

 sides and a little narrowed posteriorly ; its surface is not very distinctly 

 sculptured, owing to its dense golden-yellow pubescence. The elytra 

 are wider than the prothorax, and gradually rounded towards the ape.x ; 

 they bear rather deeply impressed, punctured striae, and are sparingly 

 clothed like the thorax ; there is a scutellar, triangular patch of an 

 infuscate red, the reniainder being of a pale green colour. The legs 

 are stout, pale yellow ; the femora are not greatly inflated, not notched, 

 and the intermediate tibiae are the most strongly flexuose. The under- 

 side is pale green, with scant, yellow pubescence. 



Length, ij line (rost. incl.). 



Of this distinct pretty little Curculio, I obtained about half-a-dozen 

 specimens at Cabbage-tree Swamp, near Auckland ; its position should 

 be near Erirhinus. The eyes are small, distant from the thorax, and 

 the snout is rather long. 



Dorytomus. 



Germar. 



Rostrum elongate, cylindrical, arcuated. Aiitennce elongate, inserted 

 beyond the middle (apically) of the rostrum ; scape reaching to the eye; 

 funiculus seven-jointed; first as long as second and third conjointly; the 

 others nearly equal, each a little more transverse than the preceding ; 

 club stout, ovate. Eyes distinctly facetted, nearly round, a little truncated 

 inwardly, not prominent, placed at each side of the base of the rostrum. 

 Thorax with rounded sides. Elytra oblong. Feniora strongly inflated, 

 distinctly dentate below ; tibice mucronated. 



These are the chief characters of D. tortrix, a British species, which 

 I examined ; the genus is closely allied to Erirhinus. 



799. D. trilobuS, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., i2,T]. 

 D. testaceo-fulvus, pube subtilissima parce vestitus, basi elytrorum macula 

 triloba nigra signatus ; rostro haud striato, longitudini prothoracis 

 sequali, subtiliter punctulato ; oculis rotundatis ; funiculo antennarum 

 brevi ; prothorace transverse, utrinque rotundato, leviter punctulato ; 

 scutello nigro ; elytris paulo depressis, fortiter striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 punctulatis ; femoribus infra angulato-dentatis. 



Long., 2 lin. 



Tairua. 



In size and shape this species resembles our D. inaculatus. The 

 femora are produced into a strong angle beneath, terminating in an 

 almost obsolete tooth. 



Note. — The species does not, I believe, occur at Tairua. I found 

 it at Cabbage-tree Swamp, near Auckland, in the year 1S72. 



800. D. rufirostris, f}-s. Antenna; rufo-testaceous, inserted at 

 the middle of the rostrum ; scape slender ; basal joint of the funiculus 

 very long and clavate at the extremity ; club oblong-ovate. Kostruvi 



