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•listiiu'i than the punctures; tlic interstices nearest tlie suture, except 

 just at the l)as<.\ are a good deal and lather evenly elevated, causing the 

 suture to appear depi'essed, the outer ones are less raised. 



Underside piceous, witli sonic yellow setae, the nietasternum with a 

 patcli of greyish sponge-like vestiture at eacli side; basal ventral 

 segments relatively coarsely but not deeply punctured, the 5th even less 

 deeply, with a large oblong median fovea : in my older speeinu'n this 

 segment is testaceous, the other is rufescent. 



Ficngth (rostrum exclusive), 2Jmm.; breadth, IJmm. 



-Mount Te Aroha. My first specimen was found about thirty years 

 ago; another pair during my short visit in Noveniber, 1910. Tlie recent 

 captures are i-atlier darker than that described above ; all were found 

 amongst dead leaves, and have the same lai'ge fovea on the last segment. 



Group COSSONIDAK. 



3462. Allaorus scutellaris sp. nov. Allaorus Broun, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 



voL 41, p. 208. 



Elongate, suboviform, slightly convex, moderately nitid ; of a faintly 

 rufescent fusco-testaceous hue, antennae ferruginous; very sparingly 

 clothed witli slender, gi-eyish-yellow, decumbent pubesceiice. 



Rostrum cylindrical, nearly as long as the thorax, slightly arched, 

 finely yet distinctly punctate. Thorax subconical, gradually narroAved 

 anteriorly, rather longer than bi'oad, obsoletoly constricted near the 

 front, which is a little rounded, apparently more elevated, and more 

 finely sctilj)tured than the moderately coarsely but not closely punctured 

 disc. Scutellum distinct. Elytra nearly twice the length of the tliorax, 

 just a little broader than it is at the base, which is subsinuate; they are 

 a good deal, and somewhat abruptly, narrowed near the extremity, which 

 is broadly rounded; their surface is rather coarsely striate-punctate, 

 moi'e evidently striate near the suture; interstices without distinct serial 

 punctuies; the 2nd, as well as the suture, are only slightly raised. 



Tibiae with strongly developed hooks; the apex of the anterior is 

 emarginate and has an acute inner angle, but along tlie insi<le, near 

 the middle, there is no fringe or emargination. 



This agi'ees iii nearly all essential particulars with Allaorus, but the 

 larger eyes and distinct scutellum are good discriminative feattires. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 2§ mm. : Ineadth, nearly 1 mm. 



Erua. My specimen was found amongst decaying leaves, on tlie 

 grotmd, in January, 1911. 



Group .AXTHRIBIDAE. 



3463. Anthribus albiceps sp. nov. Anthribus Geoft'rov, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 545. 



Variegate, slightly nitid, light castancous, i-ostiiim ])iceous; the basal 

 joint of the tai-si and joints 2-8 of tlie iinti'nnae tetaci'ous; the l)asal 

 joint of the latter, the tips of the intermediate, and the club, as well as 

 joints 2-4 of the tarsi and the apical portion of the tibiae, more or less 

 inf\iscate; the pubescence almost white, rather slendei-, concentrated on 

 the head, but tinevenly and rather thiidy distiibtited elsewhere. 



Rostrum as long as the thora.x, moderately slendei-, considerably 

 dilated near the apex but very gradually towards its l)ase, distinctly 

 and rather closely punctate and longitudinally rugose. Thorax as long 

 as it is broad, widest behind the middle, gently narrowed anteriorly, 

 more abruptly behind; the base is margined and truncate but not de- 

 finitelv angulate ; at a short distance in advance, in line with the 



