OF NEW ZEALAND. 1373 



The dark colour, long hind-body, slender rostrum, and brightly- 

 coloured scape distinguish this species. 



Antenna implanted before the middle of the snout. Eyes 

 rounded, not prominent, not widely distant above. 



Vak. — Femora at the base, and the tibiae near the extremity, 

 fusco-testaceous ; most part of the disc, and two minute basal spots 

 on elytra, of nearly similar colour. 



Length (rost. excl.), 1^ lines; breadth, nearly i line. 



Boatman's. Four from Mr. Cavell. I found one on Mount 

 Egmont. The insect may be widely distributed. 



2398. E. fuscipes, "-s. (Vf(/br;«, elongate, slightly nitid ; the 

 rostrum, thorax, most part of the elytral base, and the club, blackish ; 

 scape reddish ; the other parts pale testaceo-fuscous ; sparingly 

 clothed with short griseous hairs. 



This resembles E. anxiiis ; the body, however, is narrower and 

 more attenuated posteriorly. Tliorax about as long as it is broad, 

 more closely punctured. Elytra not oblong, gradually narrowed 

 backwards, with a few coarse, depressed, pallid set^e on the posterior 

 part of the suture. 



Underside nearly black, shining, finely and distantly punctured ; 

 the metasternum and two basal segments of the abdomen distinctly 

 depressed longitudinally. 



The eyes are more widely separated above than they are in 

 E. anxms, with pale scales between them. The rostrum is striate- 

 punctate. The antenme arise from before the middle of the rostrum. 



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



Mount Egmont, elevation i, 000ft. Two examples. 



Alloprocas. 



Nov. gen. 



Eyes rotundate, slightly prominent, just free. Head globose 

 underneath. Rostrum arched, a little longer than thorax, not 

 slender, of nearly equal thickness throughout. Aiiteniice inserted 

 just before the middle in the female, near the front in the male ; 

 the scape touches the eye. Thorax transverse, apex obtusely 

 rounded, base subtruncate. Scutellum distinct. Elytra suboblong, 

 a little wider than the thorax at the base, very gradually narrowed 

 from the shoulders backwards. Scrobe lateral, its lower margin 

 extending to the lower and front part of the eye. Ocular lobes ab- 

 sent. Legs about equidistant from front to rear, the mesosternum 

 about as long as the metasternum. Abdomen with the second seg- 

 ment shorter than the following two, its frontal suture sinuate. 

 Femora a little clavate, the anterior with a denticle underneath, the 

 others slightly angulate and dentate. Tibia flexuous, with small 

 terminal hooks. Tarsi moderate, third joint bilobed, claws thick- 

 ened at the base. Front coxce contiguous. Prosternum with a 

 semicircular emargination, the outer angle dentiform. 



The senus is allied to Erirliinus and Aneuma, 



