OF NEW ZEALAND. 505 



of the specimens, longish, suberect, whitish scales are mixed with the 

 grey. It is very doubtful whether the insect described by Scho^nherr, 

 and figured here, be the Fabrician species. 



Note. — I have placed the species with Mitrastetlius ; it has been 

 referred by White and Schcenherr to DryoptJwrus, by Olivier to Calan- 

 dra, and by Fabricius to Curculio: Its habits I indicated in vol. ix. 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., p. 369. 



Paranomocerus. 



Redtenbacher ; Voy. Novara. 



Corpus oblongum, subdepressum, densissime squamosum, alatum ; 

 caput parvum, vertice valde convexo, rostro thoracis longitudine, basin 

 versus sensim dilatato et depresso. Antennce elongatse, tenues, scapo 

 sensim clavato thoracisque marginem anticum attingente, funiculo sep- 

 tem-articulato, articulis duobus primis valde elongatis, longitudine 

 aequalibus, sequentibus brevibus, clava elongata, sub-cylindrica, articulo 

 primo funiculi vix breviore, e.xarticulata. Oculi laterales, rotundati, vix 

 convexi. Thorax conicus, latitudine basali duplo fere longior, basi sub- 

 recte truncatus, margine antico in medio rotundato producto lateraliter 

 vix lobatus, dorso depresso, longitudinaliter concavo. Scutclluni parum 

 rotundum. Elytra oblongo-quadrata, basi thorace parum latiora, apice 

 compressa et simul obtuse rotundata, anum obtegentia. Prosiernuni 

 profundissime canaliculatum, canali alte marginato, mesosterno excavato 

 terminato. Metasternuin subelongatum. Abdomen segmentis duobus 

 primis elongatis, longitudine eequalibus, secundo tertio quartoque simul 

 sumtis vix brevioribus. Pedes tenues, antici parum Xonu^xox^fi/femoribus 

 sub-linearibus, muticis, ttbiis rectis, apice unco valido armatis, iarsis 

 articulo tertio dilatato, valde bilobo, unguiculis liberis, simplicibus. 



898. P. SpiCUluS, Redten. ; Voy. Novara. Mgro-fuscus, squamo- 

 sitate densa cinerca et fusca variegatus ; thorace sex-, elytris plurimis- 

 tuberculatis, tuberculis elytrorum inrpc^ualibus, fuscis, mediis cristam 

 obliquam formantibus. 



Long, (ex rost.), 2^-i\. 



Note. — I found this species at Tairua. In the nia/e the antennae 

 are as long as the body, in the other sex not half that length ; the male 

 is usually the larger. 



899. P. maurUS, n.s. Body black, tarsi red, antennaj ])itchy-red ; 

 covered with black and testaceous scales, those of the former colour 

 predominating on the dorsal space of the thorax, a broad linear longitu- 

 dinal space on each elytron, the basal half of the rostrum and the front 

 legs. Rostrum large, shining-black, its ai)ical half punctulate, the base 

 indistinctly quadri-sulcate. Frothorax of the normal conical form, with 

 a bare dorsal line, its apex bi-crestcd, and tlie surface uneven but desti- 

 tute of distinct tubercles. Each elytron bears an elongate longitudinal 

 elevation near the base, and two longitudinal rows of setose elevations 

 between the middle and the posterior declivity, and between these a 



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