210 COLlOOrXBRA. 



Scape distinctly setose, ruther stout, gradually incrassate, a little 

 shorter than the funiculus, and attaining the thoracic margin ; 2nd 

 joint of funiculus as long as the l)asal, joints 3-5 evidently longer than 

 broad, 6th and 7th obconical, slightly sliorter and broader; ehib elongate- 

 oval, triarticulate. 



Legs and tarsi witli grey setae; tibiae Hexuovis, the anterior almost 

 straight outwardly; posterior femora with a ]iale s])ot above, near the 

 extremity. 



Dr. Sharp described five species, "2116-20, inclusive; none of tliese 

 are in my collection, and some will probably be placed in distinct genera. 

 After studying their descriptions I find that B. asperatus does not agree 

 with any one of them. The 3rd interstices do not project over the base 

 of the thorax as in 2117 and 2118; in 2116 the 3rd and 5th interstices 

 are united behind so as to form, on each elytron, a large triangular 

 nodosity; in 2119 the 5th interstices ai-e nodiform behind but the 3rd 

 are not; wliilst in 2120 tlie sides of tlie tliorax are distinctly plicate or 

 submai-ginate behind. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5 mm.; breadtli, 2 mm. 



McClennan's Bush, near Methven. A single male t'ouTid 1)\- Mi-. T. 

 Hall on the 26th February, 1912. 



V<ir. — Ihree specimens secured by Mr. Hall on the 1st of tlie same 

 month at Pudding Hill measure 6 mm. by 2^ mm. ; the elytra are not 

 asperate, along the middle they are nearly plane, the squamosity is 

 much less variegate, and tlie 3rd and 4th tarsal joints are usually 

 piceous. I treat these as representing a vai'iety intermediate betAveen 

 this and the following species. 



3597. Brachyolus fuscipictus sp. nov. 



Opaque, piceous, antennae and tarsi dark I'usco-rufous ; the clothing 

 pale brown, somewhat coppery along the middle of the elytra, liglit tawny 

 oi- greyish on the thorax and sides of the apical declivity, dark fuscous 

 on top of the latter and along the side of each elytron ; the setae greyish. 



Rostrum nearly a third shorter than tlie thorax ; distinctly carinate 

 alqng the middle, its sides obtusely and less evidently. Thoi-ax slightly 

 broader than long, a little wider before the middle than elsewhere; a 

 little uneven, liroadly obliquely impressed in front towards the sides, 

 tri-impressed near the base, and with a slig-ht median carina before the 

 middle. Elytra double the length of and 'piite a third broader than 

 the thorax but, owing to the rounded shoulders, hardly broader than it 

 is at the base, the posterior declivity much narrowed and vertical lielow 

 tlu^ middle; their broad sutural area is ncaidy plane and indistinctly 

 punctate, the punctures near the sides are seriate, moderately coarse and 

 distant; the 3rd intei'stices are only obtusely projecting at the base, 

 they are moderately and unevenly elevated backwards aiid their terminal 

 nodosities are thick aiid prominent, the 5th are simple and have smaller 

 nodosities behind; the suture, along the ii]>])er half of tlio declivity, 

 is obtusely elevated and thickened and almost eurvate, below that point 

 it is pei'pendicular, apices subacuniinate. 



Ijegs clothed and marked like those of B. fix/iernfus, Imt the anterior 

 tibiae are evenly and gently curved externally. Antennae similar. 



Underside with fuscous and tawny scales, and many long and ratlier 

 coarse setae, but those on the finely punctate Terminal segment ai'e much 

 finer on the middle; the liasal alidominal segment is broadly depressed 

 and longer than the next, wliich is medially ancrulate in front, the 3rd 



