OF NEW ZEALAND. 495 



or bent over the apex of the canal, the passage between the two being 

 too gradual to be of any practical value. It is in that character that it 

 differs principally from Acalles. 



879. A. rudis, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.., Feby., 1877. 

 A. ellipticus, valde convexus, fuscus, squamosus, squamis erectis nume- 

 rosis adspersus ; rostro nitide fusco, capite vix longiore ; antennis piceis \ 

 prothorace oblongo, utrinque sub-rotundato ; elytris prothorace paulo 

 latioribus, nigro-variegatis, in medio niveo-subquadrinotatis ; ahdomine 

 segmentis duobus basalibus amplissimis. 



Long. \\ lin. 



Tairua (Captain Broun). 



880. A. SCUlpturatUS, n.s. Elongate, ovate, convex, piceous, 

 sparingly clothed with reddish-yellow scales, and rather short coarse setse. 



Rostrum short and broad, very similar to that of A. rudis, coarsely 

 punctured and squamose. Thorax convex, longer than broad, gradually 

 narrowed towards the front, its base widest ; it is deeply and closely 

 punctured, rather shining and very scantily clothed. Elytra convex, 

 scarcely narrowed at the shoulders, not much more elevated than the 

 thorax, and very little dilated near the middle, so that the form of the 

 body is an uninterrupted oval ; they are finely but sharply striated, the 

 strife distant, and not at all coarsely punctured. Legs rather short and 

 stout, the anterior femora much incrassated ; they are obscure reddish in 

 colour, and are covered with scales and coarse setje. AntenncE short 

 and robust, scape short, they are dark shining red, and the funiculus is 

 pubescent. 



Length, i\ line. 



I found one example only near Whangarei Harbour. It is nearly 

 allied to the typical species. 



Doliclioscelis. 



NotK gen. 



Body narrow, elliptical, convex. Rostrum moderate, slightly ex- 

 panded towards the base and apex, a little arcuated ; scrobes deep, not 

 of sufficient length to receive the whole of the scape, commencing be- 

 hind the middle and attaining the eyes. Head globular, immersed up 

 to the eyes; these latter scarcely perceptible from above, depressed, dis- 

 tinctly facetted, and situated at the base of the beak. Antenna inserted 

 just behind the middle of the rostrum ; scape gradually incrassated ; 

 funiculus seven-articulate, nearly twice the length of the scape, the two 

 basal joints nearly equal; club ovate. Protlwrax longer than broad, 

 produced anteriorly so as to cover the head, incurved downwards, 

 narrowed in front, base truncate. Scutelluni invisible. Elytra broader 

 and much longer than thorax, narrowed in front to the same width as 

 the base of the latter. Pectoral canal profound, extending half-way 

 through the mesostcrnum. Metasternutn very short. Abdotnen very long, 

 its basal segment longer than the other four conjointly, broadly de- 



