1202 COLEOPTEEA 



2128. I. vestitUS, lis. Broad, only slightly convex, opaque, 

 black ; densely covered with small round depressed, greyish-testaceous 

 or pale-brown scales, and coarse, grey, erect aetse ; legs and antennae 

 obscure fusco-rufous. 



Bostrum moderately short, tricarinate, most of its squamte 

 slightly fulvescent. Scrobes deep in front, directed towards, but 

 not reaching, the lower margin of the eyes. Scape attaining the 

 back of the eye, very gradually thickened ; second joint of fujiicultoi 

 very little longer than the first ; club elongate, triarticulate, densely 

 and finely pubescent. Eyes broadest above, subacuminate below. 

 Thorax- just as long as broad, widest near the front, narrowed but 

 nearly straight behind, base rounded ; uneven above, the largest 

 depressions behind the middle, near the sides. Scutelluvi minute. 

 Elytra broad, much broader than the thorax, shoulders oblique, the 

 sides sabparallel as far as the top of the hind declivity, where 

 they are abruptly narrowed, apices obtusely acuminate ; each has 

 six series of large distant punctiform impressions above, besides three 

 or four on each side ; they are nearly plane, the third interstices are 

 slightly raised at the base, the fifth are obtusely prominent (not pro- 

 jecting) at the top of the declivity, so that the space between these, 

 at that point, appears broadly depressed, the suture, however, is a 

 little raised and thickened there, still more so lower down. Legs 

 stout ; femora clavate, the squamosity near the base rather pale 

 and almost viridescent ; tibiae flexuous, with scales like those on 

 the rostrum ; soles of the tarsi, especially the second joint, rather 

 thinly clothed. Corbels narrowly cavernous. Ocular lobes distinct. 

 Metasteniwni short. In No. 1231 the scape reaches the front of the 

 thorax. Scrobes effaced behind. Ocular lobes broad. It is a near 

 ally of /. vcstlttts. 



Length (rost. excl.), 4 ; breadth, 2 lines. 



Wellington. Mr. Sandager ; one example. 



Group-RHYPAROSOMID-ffi. 

 Plirynixus. 



2129. P. simplex, 'is. Sub-oblony-ooate; piceo-fuscous, anten- 

 nae, tarsi, and apical half of rostrum reddish, clothed with elongate, 

 depressed and suberect, fulvous scales. 



Bostrum longer than thorax, its anterior portion nearly nude, 

 and more or less carinate, the basal part squamose. AntenncB me- 

 dially inserted, second joint of funiculus quite as long as but more 

 slender than first ; club paler-red, its base as broad as the seventh 

 joint. Protliorax as long as broad, subcylindrical, with a longi- 

 tudinal depression at the base ; its sculpture consists of rather large 

 punctures or cavities filled with scales, and, especially behind, more 

 or less rugose intervals. Elytra subovate, the base truncate in the 

 middle, the porrect humeral angles embracing the base of thorax ; 

 they bear rows of oblong punctures distinctly separated from one 

 another, these arc evident enough and regular near the suture, but 



