1056 COLEOPTEEA 



The very coarse sculpture of the head and thorax is a good dis- 

 tinguishmg character. 



Length, | ; breadth, nearly ^ line. 

 Tairua (1886) ; t^YO examples. 



1887. E. lepiphorus, "-s. Suhdeprcsscd, thorax moderately 

 shining, pale chestnut-red, legs and antennae fulvous ; clothed with 

 an admixture of yellow hairs, and minute brassy, seta-like scales, in 

 some lights more like setas than scales. 



Head trigonal, narrow, subopaque, closely punctured ; nearly 

 plane, interocular foveas very small ; tubercles small but distinct 

 and glossy, the intervening chanijel broad but shallow. Antennce 

 rather shorter than head and thorax, joints 3-8 nearly similar ; 

 ninth and tenth transverse ; eleventh largest, acuminate. Thorax 

 appearing slightly longer than broad, widest near the front, much 

 narrowed anteriorly ; discoidal groove abbreviated, basal and lateral 

 foveas distinct, its punctation more distant, shallower, and altogether 

 less evident than that of the head ; side margins blackish and rough- 

 looking. Elytra narrowed towards base, lateral margins pitchy, 

 sutural striae and intrahumeral impressions distinct, sculpture of 

 surface ill-defined. Hind-hody seemingly impunctate. 



One of the congeners of E. patruclis, smaller than that species, 

 and flatter. The head will lead to its identification. The clothing 

 is peculiar ; there are some slender scale-like setae on E.patruelis, but 

 they are not conspicuous. 



Length, -f ; breadth, nearly ^ line. 



Clevedon. One, from Mr. G. Munro. 



1888. E. validus, '^-s- Shining, red, elytra paler, legs and 

 antennge fulvescent ; clothed with short, depressed yellowish hairs 

 intermingled with a few^ longer ones ; body robust and convex. 



Head large, subquadrate ; interocular fove£e large, continued 

 forwards and confluent between the antennae ; the smooth, raised, 

 vertex portion prolonged nearly as far as the tubercles. Antenncc as 

 long as head and thorax, second joint rather shorter than first, joints 

 3-8 differ but little from one another, monilii'orm ; ninth and tenth 

 much broader than eighth, transverse, tenth nearly twice the width 

 of ninth ; eleventh largest, acuminate. Thorax scarcely larger than 

 head, the base with a large angular median fovea united to a fovea 

 near each hind angle, no discoidal sulcus. Elytra considerably 

 larger than thorax, the sutural striae and intrahumeral impressions 

 broad and rather deep ; there are also two small punctures close to 

 the scutellar region. Hind-hody long and convex. Legs stout. 



This might seem to agree pretty well with Dr. Sharp's E. con- 

 vexus (female) in many respects ; it is a smaller insect, however, and 

 the head is not at all narrow. 



Length, 1-1| lines ; breadth, f line. 



Found on the Waitakerei Eange, near Howick, and near Cleve- 

 don ; seven individuals, without anv well-marked sexual characters. 



