KRIHRHINIDAE. '2'^^^ 



Rostrum fully the length of the thorax, more than half the width of 

 the head, a little narrowed between the antennae and the middle; mo)e 

 rinely punctured than the head, slightly flattened along the middle, this 

 part boi-dered at each side by a slender line. Head rather narrow and 

 closely punctate. Thorax as long as it is broad, moderately constiicted 

 near tlic apex, closely j^unctured, more coarsely than the head, but 

 more finely in front. Elytra nearly four times the length 'of the thorax, 

 not twice its width at the base, almost straight as far as the hind thighs, 

 their aj^ices rounded and not covering the closely sculptured quite red 

 pygidium ; they are striate-punctate, the interstices are finely rugose, 

 and the 2nd, on each, bears a small crest on the summit of the decdivity. 



Femora of unequal length, the anterioi' shortest, notched at the 

 extremity and dentate underneath, the intermediate strongly dentiform, 

 the posterior still more so. 



Scape flexuous, gradually tliickened and atlaining tlie Ijack of the 

 eye; funiculus nearly as long as the scape, basal joint moderately thiel; 

 but only very little longer than the elongate 2nd, 3rd slightly longer 

 than broad; joints 4-6 moniliform, hardly at all transverse; club large, 

 not ecjual to the funiculus in length, its 3rd joint apparently entii-e, 

 subacuminate, hardly exceeding its precedessor in length. 



Differs from 0. latipennis in most details, in its moi-e elongated 

 thorax and elytra particularly; the antennae are longer and stouter, 

 the club is more distinctly annulate and tapers towards the extremity, 

 and the eyes are more longitudinally oval. In general contour it more 

 nearly resembles 0. uniform/s, 3303, which, however, is thickly covered 

 with circular fulvous scales. 



(J. Length (rostrum exclusive), 4 nun. ; breadth, li nun. 



Mount Hutt. This is another of Mr. Hall's discoveries on the oOtli 

 March, 1912. Described from a single specimen. 



3633. Stephanorhynchus halli sp. nov. Stephanorhi/nchtis White, Man. 

 N.Z. Coleopt., p. 462. 



Robust, without crests or tubercles; densely covered Avith depressed, 

 elongate, testaceous scales, and some grey ones wliich, on the el3"tra, are 

 disposed in series; along the middle of the tlioiax tliei't is a fuscous 

 streak, and another, much less distinct, near each side, the sides of the 

 head and elytra are similarly marked, and the depressed parts of the 

 elytral disc are also streaked but rather more glossy ; antennae rufo- 

 castaneous. 



Rostriim aiched, as long as the thorax, moderately ridged from be- 

 hind the antennae to the front of the eyes, with a groove along each side 

 of tlie ridge, tlie apical portion darker and l)earing some fulvous setae. 

 Head rather shorter than the rostrum, not abruptly consti-icted behind, 

 with a well-marked channel from the eyes to its base, so tliat its sides 

 near the middle appear ridged. Eyes very convex and piominent. 

 Thora.v of about ecpial length and breadth, constricted just behind the 

 raised apical margin, very slightly and bi-oadly im])ressed along the 

 middle, its l)ase slightly emarginate in front of t\\c oblong scutellum, 

 there is no visible punctation. pjlyti-a at ilic I)ase exceeding the 

 thorax by half its width, tluice its lengtli, witli reminded shoulders, 

 they are oblong, ov only very gradually nan-owed liackwards, witli 

 simple apices; they are moderately striate-i)unctate, tlie sul)de])ressed 

 sutural portion indistinctly so; tlie 3rd interstices, reckoning the suture 

 as the first, are broader and more elevated than the others, and at the 

 extremitv unite with the indistinctly raised outei- ones. 



