OF NEW ZEALAND. 793 



Elytra oviform, slightly tri-siuuated at base, where they scarcely ex- 

 ceed the thorax iu breadth. Femora clavate beyond the middle ; 

 tibia flexuous, without hooks, sub-mucronate and concave at the 

 apex ; tarsi with brush-like soles, their tw^o basal joints obconical, 

 penultimate bi-lobed, claws simple, divergent. Abdomen with two 

 large basal segments, having their suture sinuous, third and fourth 

 very short. Body moderately convex, sub-ovate, with minute 

 scales. 



A form like Inophlaus, w'ith the apex of the rostrum more ex- 

 panded below the antennal insertion, the scrobes much more oblique, 

 and the extremity of the tibias less produced, &c. 



1414. P. rugOSUS, n.s. Opaque, pitchy-black, tarsi and an- 

 tenna rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed with minute, obscure, testaceous 

 scales ; sub-ovate, moderately convex. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, broadly but not deeply hollowed 

 above, closely and very minutely punctated, with some coarser punc- 

 tures disposed in rows. Prothorax sub-cylindrical but not narrow, 

 widest before the middle and a little narrowed posteriorly ; nearly 

 plane but rather uneven above, with a frontal and two obtuse dorsal 

 elevations, a -few minute granules, and entirely covered with very 

 dense but excessively fine punctures. Scutellum triangular. Elytra 

 ovate, with nearly vertical sides, a little convex, gradually deflexed 

 apically, their sculpture more or less rugose ; they bear some small 

 granules near the base, are irregularly punctured, with indications 

 of striae ; there are two callosities behind, and many smaller ones on 

 the sides. Aiitennce with a few straw-coloured hairs, the two basal 

 joints of the funicle longest, joints 3-7 longer than broad, obconical. 

 Underside obscure-black, apparently almost nude and impunetate. 

 Legs and tarsi hispid. The body usually covered with a fusco-testa- 

 ceous scaly deposit. 



Length (rost. excL), 5f lines ; breadth, 2|. 



Two spechnens have been transmitted from " The Brothers " 

 (Cook Strait), by Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager. 



Group-CYLINDRORHINID^. 



Empseotes (p- 441)- 



1415. E. amotUS, '^^-s- Sub-ovate, broadest near posterior 

 femora, rather plane ; piceous, covered with depressed, variegated, 

 but chiefly greyish, scales and decumbent setaj ; funiculus and tarsi 

 red. 



Bostrum short, indistinctly carinated, densely squamose. Pro- 

 thorax slightly longer than broad, sub-cylindrical, uneven, punc- 

 tate, not tuberculate. Elytra rather short than broad, nearly ver- 

 tical behind, uneven, with four callosities behind the posterior 

 femora, and two robust protuberant processes directed backwards, 

 on nearly the same level as the disc, on the summit of the pos- 

 terior declivity ; apices not projecting. Legs squamose. Scape 

 scaly ; funicle pilose, its second joint quite as long as the first. 

 4 — PT. III. 



