122 COI.KOPTKHA. 



lavlv punctured, more coarsely and closely behind than in front, where 

 there is a crest at each side formed of coarse, woolly, pale-yellowish 

 setae; it is tricristate across the middle; these crests are prominent 

 and rotundate; anotlier in line with tliese, Ijut on the side, is much 

 smaller; the mesial basal depression lias obtusely raised lateral borders; 

 this hind portion bears decumbent, rather coarse and elongate, obscurely 

 fulvescent squamae, but the setae at its sides are suberect. Elytra 

 eviform, twice the length of the thorax, at the middle nearly double its 

 width, with uJieven, tuberculate or crested sides, they are much narrowed 

 and nearly vertical behind; their punctures are irregular and coarse, 

 but on the hind declivity become much finer and substriate; greyish 

 woollv setae form an interrupted semicircular crest from one slioulder 

 to the other, but leaving a sutural gaj) in line Avith the posterioi- femora, 

 the median basal <le})ression is crested at each side with fulvescent setae 

 similar to those extending backwards along the suture; an oblique 

 seiies of 4 crests extends fi'om before the middle of each side to within 

 a short distance of tlie suture, the liindmost, just on top of tlu' declivity, 

 is the most prominent; a little lower ihiwii, at each side, there is a 

 larger setigerous prominence. 



Legs normal, bearing numerous coarse, curled, tawny setae; the 

 tarsi are densely and finely clothed above. 



Antennae with fine dense tawny vestituie; sca})e medially inserted 

 and attaining the back of the eye, slendei- near tlie base, clavate at 

 the apex; funiculus rufescent, its 2nd joint alnidst as elongate as the 

 1st, joints 3-6 subtransverse, 7th distinctly <'nlarged, narrowed towards 

 its base; club conical, obsoletely ai'ticulated, not much larger than the 

 preceding joint. 



Underside dull fuscn-iiiceous, l)ut with the middle (if the l)asal seg- 

 ments evidently rufescent ; these two are somewhat convex, rather evenly 

 and coarsely punctured, and bear numerous coarse, rather elongate, 

 bright-fulvous setae; the suture between tlie segments is obli(|ue towards 

 the middle and distinct throughout; the 2nd, in the middle, is as long 

 as the 1st. and slopes abruptly downwards to the abbreviated 3rd and 

 4th, which, as well as the 5th, are on a lower level, and l>ear finer setae. 



When compared with its nearest ally, P. humeralis, 2544, it will be 

 at once separable by the j^resence of the rounded crests across the middle 

 of the thorax and the abruptly clavate scape. Ilie underside is 

 materially different, being wholly nigro-fuscous in 2544, with somewhat 

 flattened basal ventral segments; the punctures on these are very irre- 

 gular, so that some parts, near their junction in the middle particularly, 

 are perfectly smooth ; all the setae are very small, and their suture 

 towards the middle is completely obliterated. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 4i-5 mm. ; bri adth, 2-2i mm. 



Hakapoua, Southland. Three specimens found bv Mr. A. Philpott 

 in March, 1911. 



3442. Sosgenes longicollis s]). nov. Sosgenes Broun, Man. N.Z. Coleopt.. 

 p. 1476. 



Subcylindrie, sul>opa(jue, almost nude; piceo-rufous, rostrum quite 

 red, antennae and tarsi fulvescent. 



Rostrum about a third shorter than the thorax, stout, feebly arched, 

 subparallcl, slightly dilated at the antennal insertion so that the scrobes, 

 at tliat point, arc open and (|uite visible above; it is finely sculptured, 

 has a .shallow median groove witli sliglitly t'arinate lateral lioi'ders, and 



