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and two rounded, but smaller, elevations behind ; their sculpture is 

 scarcely perceptible beyond these, though they are apparently striated, 

 and they are densely covered with long somewhat curled yellowish 

 hairs, except at the suture, where the clothing consists of close-pressed 

 white and brown pubescence. Legs pilose, colour variegated-testaceous. 

 Tarsi stout, basal joint elongate, twice as long as second and third 

 conjointly, the latter very small and bilobed ; fourth a little dilated at 

 the end. The cla7vs are strongly dentate, the teeth quite half the length 

 of the claws. 



Length, 2 lines. 



This form is, in some respects, allied to A. hetcEra, but it does not 

 agree very well with any of the New Zealand species, nor with any of 

 the other forms with which I am familiar. 

 . I found one example only in the Hikuwai forest near Tairua. 



969. A. phymatodes, Redt. (?); Sharp. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 June., 1876. A. oblongKs, angustulus, pube grisea leviter variegata vesti- 

 tus ; antennis pedibusque testaceis, his fusco maculatis ; elytris quadri- 

 callosis, callositatibus posterioribus pone medium sitis. 



Long. Corp., 3-4 mm. 



Antcnnie elongate, reddish. Eyes moderately deeply emarginate ; 

 upper border of antennal cavity near but distinctly separated from the 

 eye. Thorax as long as broad, its carina very distinct, quite separated 

 from the elytra, forming a rounded angle at the side and extending 

 forward about halfway to the front of thorax ; hind angles of thorax 

 quite indistinct and not applied to shoulders of the elytra, so that a gap 

 or notch is left on each side between the thorax and elytra ; its surface 

 is covered with fine greyish somewhat variegated hair-like scales. Elytra 

 rather long and narrow, clothed with somewhat variegated greyish scales, 

 and in front of the extremity bearing a transverse blackisk mark ; they 

 bear near the suture four rather strongly elevated callosities, the scales 

 on which are black ; the front pair of these elevations are near the base, 

 the hind pair just behind the middle. The legs are yellowish, with in- 

 distinct darker marks. 



Obs. I. — I have seen only three mutilated individuals of this species; 

 two of them bear a pair of strongly elevated tubercles on the head just 

 anterior to the eyes ; the other specimen is smaller and has the head 

 and rostrum narrower, and has no trace of the tubercles just mentioned. 

 It is perhaps a female, while the larger individuals are no doubt males. 



Obs. 2. — This species is very distinct from Exilis laicsoni and 

 variabilis, by its tuberculated elytra, by the differently formed basal 

 portion of the thorax, by the differently shaped eyes, and by the greater 

 space between these and the upper margin of the antennal cavities. 

 Sent from Tairua by Captain Broun. 



970. A. hetsera, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. 

 A. oblongus, angustulus, pube grisea leviter variegata vestitus ; antennis 

 testaceis, clava nigricante, et articulis 3-8 apicibus nigris, iisdem apici- 

 bus vix nodosis, pedibus testaceis, nigro maculatis ; elytris quadricallosis, 

 callositatibus posterioribus pone medium sitis. 



