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scutellar region deprossecl, irregularly and coarsely pmictured, apex 

 piceoLis, striate ; each with a compi-essed elevation on the top of the 

 posterior declivity, a similtir one on each shoulder, and other 

 rounded ones elsewhere, covered with scales ; their surface more or 

 less studded with small glossy black tubercles. Legs squamose. 



The above is applicable to a denuded specimen. It is larger than 

 P. astutus ; m P. celatus the elytra appear as if coarsely striate; 

 whilst P. tcrreus is without rostral tubercles. 



Length (rost. inch), 3 lines; breadth, if. 



Mr. T. Chalmer sent me a specimen from Dunedin. 



1509. P. tuberculatus, n.s. O^-ate, covered with scaly 

 matter, piceous ; legs, antenna}, and tarsi ferruginous. 



liostnim as long as thorax, tri-carinate in front, punctate, bi- 

 cristate behind. Prothorax a little longer than broad, punctate, 

 squamose-tuberculate. Elytra broader and longer than thorax, 

 almost punctate-striate, bearing some small black tubercles near the 

 sides and apex. Legs scaly. Underside distantly punctured. 



Allied to the preceding species, but with narrower elytra, so 

 sculptured as to seem punctate-striate ; near the base the punctures 

 are large, and the strias begin after the middle. 



Length (rost. inch), 2^-3 lines; breadth, i^-i|-. 



Collected near Outram by Messrs. Fulton and Chalmer. 



1 5 10. P. differens, '^.5. Ovate, pitchy-red, clothed with elon- 

 gate fulvescent scales ; antennae and tarsi red. 



Rostrum quite as long as thorax, arched, but little dilated in 

 front, punctate, not carinate, without tufts. Prothorax rather longer 

 than broad, cylindrical, depressed at base, not tuberculate, closely 

 rugose-punctate. Elytra sub-ovate, broadly rounded laterally, disc 

 stnate-punctate, apex punctate-striate, the fourth interstice almost 

 nodose behind ; the squamosity is irregularly distributed, but does 

 not form tubercular elevations. Legs stout, scaly. 



Of nearly the same size as P. vwdicus and P. facetics ; from tlie 

 latter it differs in having the beak simple and the elytra perfectly 

 free from squamose tubercles. 



Length (rost. inch), 2^ lines; breadth, f. 



I found one on the Waitakerei Eange. 



1511. P. rufipes, ^i■s. Ovate, piceous, antenna and tarsi red, 

 clothed with small, elongate, fulvescent scales. 



Piostrum as long as thorax, squamose, punctate and slightly 

 dilated in front, its basal half tuberculate-squamose. AntenncB 

 shining, second joint of the funicle nearly as long as, but more slen- 

 der than, first. Prothorax cylindrical, longer than broad, with a 

 few shallow punctiform impressions, the sides fringed with scales, 

 the middle almost tuberculate-squamose. Elytra oviform, almost 

 punctate-striate, quite so behind, the dorsal punctures large, with a 

 few small black tubercles on the alternate interstices. Legs reddish, 

 Bcaly. 



