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obtusely raised behind, apices iimiidcd and just visibly dehiscent, their 

 whole surface is granulate, but much less evidently than the thorax. 



In general form and structure this agrees with //. frontalis, but in 

 appearance more nearly resembles //. aefhiops, 2123, which, however, is 

 somewhat nitid, its thorax is broader than long, with rugose sculpture; 

 the elytral apices are slightly produced, but the slioulders are more 

 rounded; its eyes are flat, and the scrobes are broader above, the 

 funiculus is shc)rter, and the tarsi are more slender. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 6^ mm.; breadth, 2| mm. 



Mount Hutt. (Ine individual. Anotlier of Mr. T. Hall's captures 

 during l)a(l weather; .".Otli Marcli, 1012. 



3590. Catoptes spectabilis sp. nov. Catoptes Schoeiiherr, Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 428. Svn. Irenimus Pascoe, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 

 p. 443. 



Body moderately elongate and convex, opa(]ue ; piceous, antennae 

 and tarsi fusco-rufous, legs darker; entirely covered with tawny squamae 

 and paler, moderately elongate setae, which are suberect on the tliorax, 

 but on the elytra are decumbent and subseriate. 



Rostrum about a thii-d shorter than the thorax, slightly dilated near 

 the apex, finely setigeruus there, with a carina along the middle. Thorax 

 of nearly equal length and breadth, base and apex subtruncate, slightly 

 wider before the middle than elsewhere ; its surface just a little uneven, 

 liaving an oblique frontal impression near each side, with indistinct 

 jiunctate-granulose sculpture. Scutellum small and indistinct. Elytra 

 subcordate. rather elongate, not quite straight at the base, which is 

 slightly broader than that of the thorax in the male, more evidently in 

 the othoi' sex, more than doulile the lentith of the thorax, with somewhat 

 obliquely narrowed shoulders, the posterior declivit}- attenuate and 

 vertical; owing to the squamosity they appear rather indistinctly seriate- 

 punctate, but on denuded spots the sculpture is well marked; the 3rd 

 interstices are unevenly and slightly elevated, the 5th even less raised, 

 both terminate in moderate nodosities on the top of the declivity, the 

 suture is prolonged backwards so as to form a contiguous pair of remark- 

 able horizontal protuberances which project over the laterally compressed 

 declivity. 



Legs elongate, rather slender, with grey setae; tibiae flexuous, 

 mucronate; tarsi rather narrow, their penultimate joint moderately 

 expanded and bilobed. 



Antennae rather slender; scape implanted near the apex and reach- 

 ing the back of the eye, with nearly white scales and a few erect setae; 

 basal joint of funiculus a little thicker but not longer than the 2nd, 

 joints 3-7 obconical, 3rd and 4th distinctly longer than broad ; club 

 elongate-oval, tri articulate, finely pubescent. 



TTnderside with many elongate grey setae; the 2nd venti-al segment, 

 ill the middle, almost as long as the 1st; 5th subtriangular, fully the 

 length of the 3rd and 4th combined, with a rather large and deep 

 angular fovea near the base. 



Scrobes apical, visible above, indistinctly jivolonged obliquely down- 

 wards. Eyes just free from the thorax. obli<|iu', imt prominent. Ocular 

 lobos only feebly developed. Po.sterior corbels simple, without anv ex- 

 ternal truncature. 



The remarkable sutural protuberances at the summit of the posterior 

 declivity enable it to be at once separable from every species except 



