OF NEW ZEALAND. 973 



shining, clothed with fine yellowish hairs ; piceous, somewhat 

 "brownish, antennae and tarsi rufous. 



Bostrmn nearly as long as thorax, stout, parallel, cylindrical, 

 moderately finely and rugosely punctured. Antennce pubescent, 

 basal joint of funiculus stout, largest, second rather longer than 

 broad; the others nearly equal, transverse ; club oblong-oval. Head 

 short, vertex convex. Thorax about as long as broad, its middle 

 part widest, sides a little rounded, rather gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly, moderately coarsely and closely (almost rugosely) punc- 

 tured. Elytra a little broader than thorax at base, twice its length, 

 cylindrical, deflexed but not narrowed posteriorly ; striate-punctate, 

 interstices finely punctured and slightly rugose. Tihice very much 

 compressed laterally, rugose-punctate. Underside piceous, punctate, 

 the breast more coarsely than the abdomen ; clothed with slender, 

 inconspicuous, greyish hairs. 



$ . Eostrum cylindric, longer and narrower than that of the 

 other sex : all the upper surface of the body less coarsely sculptured ; 

 antenn£E inserted almost behind the middle of the beak. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, f . 



Found by Messrs. T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., I. Adams, B.A., and 

 myself, on the underside of logs embedded in the sea-sand, near 

 New Plymouth. 



Group— LAMIID^ . 



Xylotoles (p. 592)- 



1756. X. angnstulus, n.s. Elongate, narrow, sub-parallel; 

 coppery-brown, occasionally rufescent, legs and antennas reddish 

 and unicolorous, pubescent, palpi testaceous, but half of the apical 

 joint infuscate. 



Head impunctate, longitudinally sulcate, with some fine, scattered 

 yellow hairs. Prothorax cylindric, with a fine basal and frontal 

 grooves, its disc finely irregularly wrinkled, the space just before the 

 base with fine transverse wrinkles, the sides with some tawny 

 pubescence. Scutellmn broadly curvilinearly triangular and pubes- 

 cent. Elytra no broader than thorax at the base, a little broader 

 near the middle, attenuated posteriorly, apices prolonged and diver- 

 gent ; each with three indistinct costge having a row of coarse punc- 

 tures between them ; these rows do not extend beyond the middle 

 and are finer and usually duplicated at the base ; they are evenly 

 but not very densely covered with short, depressed, yellow hairs, 

 some paler than others, but never forming spots. Underside smooth, 

 glossy, dark coppery-brown, the sides of the breast and each of the 

 abdominal segments with a patch of yellow pubescence. 



Much narrower than X. rugicollis, differently sculptured, with- 

 out spots on the elytra, and the thorax longer and not dilated 

 laterally. 



Length, Si~^i lines ; breadth, i^-i^- 



Found at the base of Mount Egmont at an elevation of 950 feet. 



By Authority: Geobge Didsbubt, Government Printer, Wellington.— 1886. 



