1372 COLEOPTERA 



but has a red streak along the middle ; autennte reddish, with 

 fulvescent club ; legs infuscate-red. 



Bostrum with five fine costte behind, the grooves between them 

 punctate, in front it is tricarinate ; it is fringed, near the front, with 

 coarse fuscous setae, but, near the apex, bears yellow hairs only. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, the contracted anterior portion 

 moderately finely punctured ; the basal portion with coarse rugose 

 punctuation, and an indistinct central carina; there are coarse setae 

 on the sides, but only a few slender yellow ones on the disc. Elytra 

 arcuate at base, moderately narrowed anddeflexed behind, their sides 

 inflected ; on the disc of each elytron there are four series of coarse 

 punctures, about six in each row, beyond these the punctuation is 

 not so regular, the posterior declivity is punctate-striate ; they bear 

 very short yellow setae, rather longer, sometimes paler setae form 

 small prominences near the top of the hind slope, which, though a 

 little raised, does not appear distinctly nodose ; the third interstices 

 are somewhat elevated near the base. Legs clothed with moderately 

 coarse, more or less erect setae. 



Underside with fine setge, and some very coarse punctures on the 

 metasternum and first ventral segment. 



Length (rost. excl.), Ih lines; breadth, |^ line. 



Moeraki. Discovered by Mr. Sandager. A second specimen, in 

 its natural state, is larger (1|-X-| lines) ; it is probably a female. 



Group-ERIRHINIDiE. 



Erirhinus (Gen., p. 449). 



2397. E. anxius, i^-s- Suhovatc, elongate, slightly convex, a 

 little shining, black ; tarsi fuscous, legs more or less infuscate ; 

 funiculus piceous, scape fulvescent ; clothed with slender, ash- 

 coloured or greyish hairs. 



Bostrum arched, slender, parallel, elongate, smooth along the 

 middle, with rows of fine punctures near each side. Scayc slender, 

 thickened apically, attaining the eye ; funiculus longer, its basal 

 joint largest, much incrassate towards the extremity; second slender, 

 longer than third ; joints 3-7 become shorter, the seventh being 

 transverse ; club rather large, oval. Thorax much broader than 

 long, narrower in front than it is behind, its sides rounded ; the 

 surface distinctly but not closely (except at the sides) punctured ; 

 there are no ocular lobes ; the base and apex truncate. Scutcllum 

 small. Elytra oblong, twice as long as broad, apices individually 

 rounded; striate-punctate, interstices nearly flat, very indistinctly 

 punctured. Femora medially thickened, but not perceptibly den- 

 tate ; tibicB stout, flexuous, unarmed. 



Underside smoky-black, pubescence greyish ; metasternum mode- 

 rately large, convex, with a small depression behind, the middle 

 with fine transverse strite, the rest of its surface punctate ; abdomen 

 elongate, not depressed, its second segment shorter than the follow- 

 ing two conjointly. 



