OF NEW ZEALAND. 483 



funiculus, ovate, slightly pointed and indistinctly three-jointed ; beak 

 rather long, not thickened at the end, the sides nearly parallel, side 

 antennal groove beginning before the middle and continued to the eye, 

 widening behind ; thorax somewhat contracted in front, rounded on 

 the sides, with a considerable lobe on each side of hind margin, which 

 has two wide sinuations on the middle part, above somewhat depressed; 

 scutelluyn very small and considerably sunk ; elytra with the sides for a 

 good space parallel, the end rounded and completely covering the 

 abdomen ; legs moderate in length and thickness, femora somewhat 

 compressed, deeply notched on the under-side near the end ; a wide 

 groove on the under-side of thorax extending to the base of second pair 

 of legs. 



856. A. hylobioides, UHiite; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. ^/<7(r/C', thickly 

 covered with greyish-yellow scales ; thorax thickly punctured ; elytra 

 with seven longitudinal lines, deeply punctured, thickly covered with 

 greyish-yellow scales, sprinkled with black, some small irregular black 

 marks on elytra, especially about the middle and near the end ; under- 

 side of body black, rather deeply punctate, with a few scattered yellowish- 

 grey hairs; legs black, rather thickly covered with yellowish-grey hairs. 



Length, 5f lines. 



Port Nicholson (Capt. Parry). 



857. A. celator, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1876. A. 

 angustior, sub-parallelus, fusco-piceus, squamis griseis dispersis ; rostro 

 tenuato, prothorace manifeste breviore, antennis apicem versus insertis ; 

 funiculo articulis duobus basalibus longitudine fere requalibus ; pro- 

 thorace apice angusto, utrinque antice rotundato, pone medium parallel©, 

 crebre punctato ; scutcllo parvo ; elytris prothorace vix latioribus, indeter- 

 minate striato-punctatis, granulis nitidis squamis interraixtis, pone 

 medium fascia indistincta notatis. 



Long., 4 lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



A much narrower insect than A. hylobioides, covered, especially on 

 the legs, with long erect spatulate scales, not setiform as in that species. 

 Aldonus is closely allied to Strongylopterus, and, like Psepholax, the 

 pectoral canal terminates behind the anterior coxa^, and is not bounded 

 by the mesosternum. 



858. A. rostratUS, n.s. Convex, narrow, elongate-oval, piceous, 

 clothed with griseous scales. Rostrum elongate, cylindrical, pitchy-red, 

 punctulate, but not grooved and carinated as in A. celator, the scrobes 

 not very deeply impressed. Antenncz pitchy-red, slender, pubescent, 

 with the second joint of the funiculus longer than the first. Thorax 

 narrower than the elytra, widest near the middle, with rounded sides, 

 constricted towards the apex ; the base is produced towards the scutel- 

 lum and at each side, and is rather deeply bisinuated ; the disc is closely 

 and coarsely punctate, the intervals narrow, the punctures being filled 

 with depressed griseous scales, greatly concealing the punctation, yet 



