1480 COLEOPTERA 



fnscate ; the body, and the legs, very sparingly clothed with fine 

 yellowish and long erect brown setce, the depressed parts filled witli 

 tawny sappy matter. 



Bostrum with two slender carinas about equidistant from the 

 sides and the middle, usually covered with tawny squamosity. 

 Scape slightly flexuous, bearing some slender setae, opaque, dark-red. 

 Thorax about one-third longer than it is broad, a little wider near 

 the front than it is elsewhere, gradually and slightly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly ; its sculpture consists of large foveiform impressions and 

 narrow interstices" but near the base and apex the sculpture becomes 

 finer. Elytra not tw^ice the length of the thorax, not much broader 

 than it is,' hardly any wider at the base than near the middle, gra- 

 dually narrowed and declivous posteriorly; they have series of 

 oblong punctiform impressions, which are not always regular, but 

 generally form striae, interstices simple. 



Underside shining, rufo-fuscous ; abdomen finely punctate, with 

 depressed yellow setae, depressed between the hind coxae, and with 

 coarser punctures there ; prostermim w^ith larger punctures ; rostrum 

 obtusely ridged longitudinally, its apex, above, shining, red, without 

 grooves or suture. 



Length (rost. inch), 11 lines; breadth, nearly! line. 



Maketu, Hunua Kange. The insect subsists on fallen, leaves, on 

 the ground. Five specimens. 



Nestrius. 



Nov. gen. 



Allied to FJti/Uodi/tes, but differing structurally in some respects. 

 Frosternmn widely incurved, instead of being medially emarginate 

 in front. Anterior coxcp slightly separated. Mesosternal process 

 cuneiform ; that of the metasternum truncate between the middle 

 coxas. Tarsi slightly broader, with even longei outstanding hairs, 

 their third joint lobate. Mandibles not quite as long, liostrum 

 shorter than the thorax, arched above, depressed near the eyes, 

 only slightly pterygiate. The scrobe starts near the apex, almost 

 touches the eye, open above in front, broad. Eyes small, lateral, 

 oval, prominent, directed obliquely downwards, free from the thorax. 

 Scape straight, not slender, very slightly incrassate apically, reach- 

 ing just beyond the apex of the thorax. Funiculus 7-articulate, 

 first joint nearly twice the length of the second, third as long as the 

 second ; club oval, rather broad, obsoletely articulated. Head not 

 immersed to the eyes, but short. Thorax suboviform, but with a 

 slight, broad, frontal constriction, base and apex truncate. Elytra 

 subtruncate at base. Antennce inserted near apex. 



2559. N. serripes, "•■^'- A7o??^«i;(', convex, subopaque, obscure- 

 red, femora fulvescent ; it is sparingly clothed with small, yellowisli 

 setae, and also with longer erect ones. 



Bostrum narrower than the head, but not slender. Antennce red ; 

 scape opaque, with erect slender setae. Thorax large, longer than 



