OF NEW ZEALAND. 1371 



width at the base ; the shoulders are obhque ; there are four setose 

 basal elevations, and some minute tubercles near the suture, they 

 bear series of punctiform impressions which become strite behind, 

 the scutellar region is depressed ; the setoe, for the most part, are 

 small and depressed, the coarser ones form but few spots behind. 



Underside rufo-fuscous, with slender scales ; the metasternum 

 with a small impression behind ; the fifth abdominal segment, for 

 half its length, is depressed and glabrous. 



Length (rost. excl.), 3 ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Westland (Boatman's). This is another of Mr. Cavell's interest- 

 ing novelties. One individual, however, is all he could find. June, 

 1891. 



Bantiades. 



iYor. gen. 



Rostrum rather longer than the thorax, not pterygiate, slightly 

 arched, cylindrical. The scrobes begin near the front, where they 

 are visible from above ; they are deep and broad, and are prolonged 

 along the lower surface to the eyes. Thorax contracted in front for 

 one-third of the entire length, its apex truncate, with small ocular 

 lobes. Eyes situated at the sides of the head, widely distant above, 

 almost touching the thoracic margin ; they are small, coarsely 

 facetted, narrow (longer in the transverse direction than they are 

 from front to back), and almost acuminate below. Scutelluin in- 

 visible, its region depressed. Elytra a little broader than the thorax 

 at the base, suboblong, shoulders not porrected. The scajje is rather 

 short and moderately thick, gradually incrassated, bearing coarse 

 erect setae ; it does not reach the eye. Funiculus 7-articulate, its 

 two basal joints of about equal length, moderately elongate ; joints 

 3-7 are short, almost transverse ; the first four bear coarse setse, 

 the others long slender ones ; club compact, short, oval, articulate, 

 pubescent. Femora clavate, angulate, and toothed underneath. 

 Tihice with a distinct dilatation along the inside, near the middle, 

 with curved terminal hooks. Tarsi rather short, their third joint 

 excavate above and almost lobate ; claws small. Prostermvm very 

 deeply emarginate in front ; anterior coxte large and contiguous. 

 Metasternum very short, not half as long as the large basal segment 

 of the abdomen ; the second segment also large, the suture between 

 them obliterated in the middle ; the third and fourth short, with 

 deep sutures. Middle coxce moderately distant, the intervening 

 space concave behind ; hind coxte far apart. EpipleurcB extremely 

 narrow throughout. 



The rostrum is thicker and shorter than in Plirynixus, to which 

 this genus is allied ; the mandibular scar I cannot see ; the corbels 

 of the posterior tibiae are not cavernose. The structure of the 

 femora is a good differentiating character. 



2396. B. fuscatus, "-s- Convex, covered with fuscous sappy 

 matter ; when denuded, the surface appears brown, reddish on the 

 elytral disc, and rufo-piceous on the thorax ; the rostrum is pitchy, 



