1178 COLEOPTERA 



joint of funiculus larger than second, third and fourtli longer than 

 hroad ; club elongate-oval. Thorax subtransverse, base and apex 

 truncate, without ocular lobes, rather narrower in front than behind; 

 finely and sparingly punctured along the middle. Scutellion small. 

 Elytra oblong, scarcely at all curvate laterally, base feebly arcuate 

 and broader than thorax, humeral angles oblique ; substriate, finely 

 punctate, interstices simple. Lef/.s robust, femora somewhat clavate; 

 tibiae flexuous, the posterior a little expanded at the extremity, their 

 corbels narrowly cavernous ; tarsi rather short and thick, third joint 

 truly bilobed. 



Length (rost. inch), 3-3|- ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Otago. Mr. T. Chalmer; two examples. 



2088. N. pallescens, "-s. Body pale fusco-testaceous, covered 

 with depressed grey scales and yellowish setae ; antennae and ros- 

 trum reddish. 



In forvi resembling N. eclcctus ; base of elytra truncate, their 

 punctuation fine and close, so as to appear more striate, interstices 

 broader, particularly the second, in N. eclectus the third and fifth 

 seem a little wider than the others and the rows of punctures look 

 as if arranged in pairs ; antenna shorter, articulations of funiculus 

 gradually incrassate, second joint much shorter than first, joints 

 3 and 4 quadrate, succeeding ones transverse ; tihicB much thickened, 

 armed with well-developed spiniform denticles. 



Length (rost. inch), 2f ; breadth, 1-^- lines. 



Near Lake Tekapo. One; Mr. T. F. Cheeseman. 



Protophormus. 



Nov. (joi. 

 {Sharp; Trans. Roy. Diih. Soc, 1886, p. 416.) 



Bostrum breve, crassum, pterygiatum, scrobes brevissimae. Oculi 

 subconvexi, a prothorace remoti ; antennce elongata?, scapo oculos 

 superante, prothoracis marginem attingente. Prothorax snbcylindri- 

 cus, lobis ocularibus nullis. 



This insect is very similar in facies to the European genus 

 Phyllohius, from which it differs by the development of the 

 'pterygia, and also by the fact that, whereas in PJiyllobius the tip 

 of the hind tibiae is edge-like and bears only one series of setge, it is 

 here minutely truncate and bears two closely-approximated series of 

 cilias, so that the "corbeilles caverneuses " of Lacordaire are here 

 present in a rudimentary state, though this structure is so minute 

 that the corbeilles would ))e said to be open by Lacordaire had he 

 known the insect. There are also other important differences from 

 PhyllohiuH, such as that in Protophormus the hind coxae are widely 

 separated ; the mentum is small, but fills the buccal cavity ; the 

 mandibular scar is present ; the front coxae are small and contiguous, 

 and placed not very far from the front margin of the prosternum, 

 which is not at all emarginate ; the metasternum is rather short, about 



