1472 COLEOPTERA 



less pterygiate. Eyes broadly-oval, oblique. Thorax widest near 

 the front, without ocular lobes. Scape thick, not clavate, but very 

 gradually incrassate, flexuous, reaching the front of the thorax. 

 Club small, four- jointed. Legs stout. 



These characters distinguish this genus from Clypeorhynchiis. 



2550. D. setosa, ''-i- Co/zrca-, medially narrowed, not broad; 

 subopaque, fuscous, antenme and apex of rostrum reddish ; femora 

 shining, of a yellower red than the tibiae ; body clothed with fulves- 

 cent scale-like hairs and erect infuscate setae, the legs and scape 

 conspicuously setose. 



Bostrum finely punctate in front, where it is shining. AntcnncE 

 stout ; second joint of the funiculus shorter than the first ; club 

 finely pubescent. Thorax rather longer than broad, base subtrun- 

 cate, it is widest near the front, and a good deal, but not suddenly, 

 narrowed behind, the surface is irregularly punctate and a little 

 uneven. Elytra cordiform, not short, the base of the same width 

 as the thorax ; they are apparently ro.ther deeply sulcate, the 

 grooves, how^ever, are not of uniform depth, yet not distinctly punc- 

 tate. Lc(js robust, tibiae slightly liexuous ; tarsi rather short, third 

 joint bilobed, soles hairy. 



Underside somewhat glossy, reddish, the coxae of the same 

 colour as the thighs ; clothed with yellow hairs, more or less evi- 

 dently punctate. Metastermim and two basal segments of abdomen 

 somewhat depressed, the suture between these segments nearly 

 quite straight. 



Male with a sixth segment, which, in the middle, has a deep 

 transverse depression. 



The clothing of the hind-body is subject to variation, some of 

 the hairs are fuscous, others greyish, some of the finer depressed 

 hairs have a tendency to form transverse lines. The elytral in- 

 terstices are somewhat irregular, and the derm is sometimes reddish. 



Length (rost. inch), 1^ lines; breadth, f line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Three specimens. The insect subsists 

 on fallen leaves. 



Bantiades (Gen., p. 1371, Part YI.j. 



2551. B. valgus, ''••!>■■ Robust, broad, convex, opaque, piceous, 

 legs rufo-fuscous, antennae and tarsi reddish ; densely clothed with 

 more or less depressed, reddish-brown, hair-like scales, the legs and 

 rostrum with erect fuscous setae. 



nostrum arched, parallel, longer than the thorax, indistinctly 

 tricarinate. Scai)e short, barely touching the eye, gradually 

 incrassate, setose ; funiculus with the first joint longer than 

 the second, seventh a little larger than the sixth ; club ovate, 

 apparently entire, in reality with three joints, the two apical 

 defined by minute pubescence. Thorax about as long as broad, 

 its frontal portion about half the width of the basal ; the sides, 

 behind, straight or nearly so, but with two or three tufts of 

 sette ; on the niiddle there is an ill-defined longitudinal ridge, the 



