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is abruptly depressed at the base; its clypeal portion is narrower, 

 smooth, and shining. Thorax elongate, its length being a third more 

 than the breadth; it is only slightly rounded at the middle and broadly 

 but not deeply contracted near the front, which, though truncate, covers 

 the liead; a narrow, flattened, nearly smooth space extends from the 

 base as far as the fi-ontal constriction, the surface elsewhere is distinctly 

 but not very closely punctate, its apex is rufescent. Elytra of the same 

 width as thorax at the base, which is Truncate and niarginated, they are 

 only very slightly dilated behind, where there are a few fine setae; along 

 the middle of each elytron a carina extends from base to apex, the 

 suture also is carinate, the interval has 2 series of rather large, sub- 

 oblong, distinctly separated punctures; the series nearer the side are 

 similar, but the carina between them is less definite, the posterior 

 declivity is nearly smootli. 



Scape straight, very gradually incrassate, inserted immediately be- 

 hind the smooth apical portion of the rostrum, but not i-eaching as far 

 backwards as its base; basal joint of funiculus nearly twice the length 

 of the 2nd, but very little thicker, joints 3-6 subquadrate, 7th slightly 

 shorter and broader ; club i-ather large, ovate, finely piibescent, with 

 ill-defined apical articulations. 



Legs stout and elongate, finely setose; anterior tibiae with a frontal 

 prolongation which covers the basal joint of the tarsi ; the other pairs 

 have a few yellowish, rigid setae close to the extremity ; the tarsi, 

 underneath, bear outstanding setae. 



There are no ocular lobes nor scutellum. The eyes are minute and 

 hardly discernible, and appear to be placed at the sides, near the base 

 of the rostrum. 



Underside moderately shining, rufo-piceous, the last segment darker. 

 Presternum evenly concave from the frontal emargination to the coxae, 

 the sides of the cavity finely carinate, and with a transverse carina in 

 front of the coxae, which are contiguous, but there is no longitudinal 

 median ridge almost dividing the cavity as is seen in S. carinatns, 2556. 

 liasal ventral segment broadly depressed longitudinally, in the middle, 

 almost double the length of the 2nd, the suture between them is indis- 

 tinct ; the 3rd and 4th with deep straight sutures, much abbreviated 

 and, conjointly, only half the length of the 2nd; the terminal with 

 relatively coarse shallow punctures. 



The more parallel-sided outline, evidently longer and more cylin- 

 drical thorax, with its smooth longitudinal impression, the finer and 

 more obviously separated elytral punctures, and the fact of the scrobes 

 being expanded and open above at the point of the antennal insertion, 

 irrespective of other details, show that this species is abundantly distinct. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 2-^ mm. ; bieadth, nearly § mm. 



Great Barrier Island. T detected a single specimen amongst leaf- 

 mould kindly collected for me in March, 1911, by Mr. Frank Flynn. 



3443. Bantiades suturalis sp. nov. Bantiades Broun, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 

 p. 1371. 



Suboblong, slightly nitid, thinly and unevenly clothed; the setae 

 moderately fine, mostly curled and fulvescent, but in line with the 

 posterior femora a pair of spots are nearly grey; elytra light brown, the 

 thorax and legs fusco-testaceous, the antennae and apical portion of 

 the rostrum somewhat rufescent. 



Rostrum slightly longer than the tlu)rax, arclied, subparallel, a little 

 dilated in front, the clypeus moderately distinctly marked off, and 



