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round, distant tubercles ; on the sides similar tubercles are placed 

 close together in regular series and look like costao. Legs with 

 numerous depressed sette. 



Underside coarsely punctate, metasternum broadly impressed. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2A' lines; breadth, quite f line. 



Welhngton. Mr. Sandager sent me the only specimen that has 

 been found. 



Group-CYLINDRORHINID^. 



Anagotus. 



Nov. gen. 

 {Sharp; Trans. Ent. Soc, 1882, Parti., p. 90.) 



Rostrum sat elongatum, ad apicem dilatatum, supra antennarum 

 insertionem angulatim prominulo ; scrohcs obliquse, profundae, longe 

 ante oculos desinentes ; corpus tuberculatum, prothorace gracilis ; 

 pedes elongati, tibiaB simplices, baud mucronatae, apicibus nullo 

 modo dilatatis. 



This is a remarkable insect, having rather the facias of an 

 African ground-weevil than of any New Zealand form hitherto dis- 

 covered, and perhaps the type of a distinct group near the Hippo- 

 rhinides. The scrobcs are continued to the apex of the rostrum, and 

 there, owing to the dilatation of the latter, exposed in front ; they 

 are continued obliquely backwards, passing to the undersurface, 

 but become obsolete about half-way to the eye. The basal joint of 

 the antemur reaches to the eye, and is nearly as long as the other 

 joints together ; the club is well marked, though slender and 

 elongate. The mandibles are without scar, and are not very dif- 

 ferent from those of Lypcrohius. The front coxa are contiguous. 

 The metasternum is short ; the first 'vcntral segment is in the middle 

 a good deal longer than the second, which is quite twice as long as 

 the third. Legs elongate and slender; tihice. quite unarmed, not 

 thickened at the apex. Tarsi slender, the third joint scarcely 

 broader than the preceding ones, its apical lobes quite short ; it, as 

 well as the two basal joints, rather densely pubescent beneath, with 

 a glabrous space along the middle. 



At present this insect may l)e placed near Tnopliloeus, at the 

 head of the Gi/lindrorhinidcB, till its peculiarities can be more cor- 

 rectly appreciated ; it appears to me to have considerable affinities 

 both with the Amycterides and Hipporliinidcs, though differing 

 greatly from the former by the elongate rostrum. 



2144. A. helmsi, ^^-s. Niger, indumento sordide fusco vestitus, 

 femoribus versus apicem late albido-cingulatis ; prothorace elytrisque 

 tubercmlatis. 



Long, (cum rostro), 18mm. 



Thorax slender, longer than broad, approximating to cylindric, 

 but the upper surface very irregular, with aii elongate elevation in 

 the middle in front ; a rather large prominence on each side of this, 



16 — PT. V. 



