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declivity in a small tubercular elevation ; their sculpture is not very 

 obvious, but consists of rows of fine punctures without regular striae. The 

 /egs are of a variegated testaceous colour, and more or less squamose. 

 The antemjce have a slender scape, are reddish-testaceous, with the club 

 infuscate, and, except the scape, pilose. 



Length (rost. inch), if line ; breadth, -|. 



I found the species at Tairua. 



802. P. infusCUS, U.S. Very similar to the preceding, with a 

 shorter rostrnin, more distinctly grooved and carinated, the antennal 

 insertion near the apex. Pivthorax convex, rather longer than that of 

 P. squavwsa, the sides are nearly straight behind and narrowed in front; 

 its surface is punctate and densely covered with greyish scales. The 

 elytra are, like those of the typical species, rather long and broad, but 

 are not distinctly incurved laterally, and their sculpture is quite con- 

 cealed by their clothing of grey and brownish scales and pallid sette. 

 The legs are similar in structure in both species, but in the present one 

 the tibiae are broadly annulated with brown. 



Length (rost. inch), i| ; breadth, \ line. 

 This species also occurs at Tairua. 



Aneuma. 



Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., /any., 1876. 



Rostrum cylindricum, tenue, arcuatum ; scrobes antemediana;, late- 

 rales. Scapus oculum attingens ; funiculus articulo primo elongate, 

 crasso ; clava distincta. Oculi rotundati, fortiter granulati. Prothorax 

 transversus, basi truncatus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Elytra elongato- 

 cordata, prothorace multo latiora. Pectus antice emarginato-canalicu- 

 latum. Coxce anticae contiguse, intermedia? modice approximatos : 

 femora incrassata, infra dente minuto instructa ; tibia: breviuscute, 

 rectaj : tarsi normalcs. Abdomen segmento secundo baud ampliato, 

 duobus sequentibus conjunctim longiore. Corpus pilosum. 



In this genus the head is deeply inserted into the prothorax, and, 

 although it is much bent inwards, the rostrum is not received in the 

 pectoral canal, the latter being bounded behind by the anterior coxa3. 

 The presence of this canal prevents the genus being associated with 

 Erirhinus, to which otherwise it might have been referred. 



803. A. fulvipes, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. N'at. Hist., /any., 1876. 

 A. oralis, sui)ra sul)lestacea, nigrescenti-nebulosa, pilis griseis sat sparse 

 vestita : rostro prothorace breviore, basi lineis elevatis instructo ; anten- 

 nls subtestaceis, apiccm versus infuscatis ; funlculo articulis secundo, 

 tertio quartoque gradalim brevioribus, tribus ultimis transversis ; pro- 

 thorace utrinque rotundato, leviter punctulato ; clytrls confertim striato- 

 punctatis, interstitiis convexis ; corpore infra piceo-testaceo ; pcdlbus 

 fulvescentibus, sparse pilosis. 



Long., \\ lin. 



Christchurch (C. M. Wakefield). 



