548 COLEOPTERA 



broad apex ; tenth shorter than ninth, slightly longer than broad ; 

 eleventh smaller than tenth, obtusely pointed. Head distinctly rostrated, 

 but the rostrum broad and short, hardly longer than broad ; the eyes 

 narrow oval, convex, very obliquely placed, not emarginate. AtitenncB 

 inserted at a distance from the eyes in a rather large cavity at the side, 

 tlie hind part of which is slightly directed down ; the surface is covered 

 with a somewhat variegated pubescence, and is finely carinate on the 

 middle near the front. Thorax almost as long as broad, a good deal 

 narrowed towards the front ; the surface uneven, but not distinctly 

 tuberculate, covered with a rather variegated pubescence, in which a 

 white spot at the base is very conspicuous ; on each side of this white 

 spot is a smaller black one ; the carina is placed at a distance from the 

 base, is a little sinuate or waved, and is more distant from the elytra at 

 the angles than in the middle. Elytra rather short and broad, their 

 surface uneven, it being elevated into some indistinct tubercles, which 

 are clothed with a tawny tomentum ; the rather coarse rows of punc- 

 tures are concealed by a rather dense, somewhat variegated, tomentum. 

 The inetastermim bears very coarse punctures, which on the middle are 

 rugose ; the legs are reddish, and not very distinctly variegate. 

 A single individual, sent by Capt. Broun, from Tairua. 



966. A. bullatUS, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. A. 

 capite breviter rostrato, oculis prominuHs, oblongus, variegato-tomen- 

 tosus, antennis pedibusque testaceis ; elytris pone medium quadri- 

 fasciculatis ; pygidio quadrato. 



Long. Corp., 2| mm. 



Antennce formed much as in A. brouni, but with the joints of the 

 club more laxly articulated, and with the eighth joint scarcely differing 

 from the seventh. Rostrum similar in form to that of A. broi/nl, but yet 

 much shorter, so that the posterior margin of the antennal cavities is 

 near to (though quite distinctly separated from) the eye ; it bears two 

 patches of dense white pubescence, which are conjoined behind though 

 divergent in front. Thoracic carina distinctly sinuate on each side, and 

 without any angle, and very gradually bent forwards. Elytra rather 

 densely clothed, the shoulders and apex paler than the other parts, just 

 above their declivity, with a dense pencil of dark hairs, and with another 

 but less distinct pencil just behind the middle ; pygidium yellowish, 

 quadrate ; ventral plate of apical segment of hind-body prominent and 

 peculiarly flattened in the middle ; basal joint of hind tarsus scarcely 

 longer than second and third together. 



Obs. — Though much resembling the Anthribus brouni, the A. 

 bullatus is readily distinguished therefrom by the short broad rostrum 

 and by the waved thoracic carina. 



Tairua ; a single individual sent by Capt. Broun. I believe it to be 

 a male, and it is very probable that the peculiar form of the apex of the 

 abdomen is peculiar to that sex. 



967. A. vates, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. A. 

 capite rostrato, oculis perconvexis, piceus, tomento griseo fuscoque 



