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Underside blackish, covered with minute, slightly nitid pinkish-grey 

 scales. 



$. Length (rostrum inclusive), 21 lum. ; breadth, 8| mm. 



Male. — Elytra narrower, more strongly and closely granulate, almost 

 asperate. Underside with dull-tawny squamae. 5th ventral segment as 

 long as the 3rd and 4th combined, truncate behind ; 6th short and broad, 

 rounded behind. 



(J. Length (rostrum inclusive), 20mm. ; breadth, 7|mm. 



Mount Hutt, near Methven. The type, a female, was detected by Mr. T. 

 Hall, with the aid of a lantern, crawling over a rock amongst the snow, at an 

 elevation of 7,000 ft.. at midnight on the 28th December, 1912; another 

 of the same sex was caught in a trap at a height of 5,400 ft. on the 15th 

 February ; and a male was secured in the same way on the 15th March, 1913. 



The calm courage and the indifference to toil and hardship displayed by 

 the discoverer of the type merit more than the simple honour of having his 

 name conferred on the species. 



P. letvisi, 2910, is smaller, 17 mm. by 6 mm., and may be at once separated 

 by its elongate grey clothing and substriate elytra. 



Liparogetus gen. nov. 



Rostrum fully half the length of thorax, a third narrower than head, 

 subparallel, its apical portion deflexed and simple, not at all pterygiate. 

 Scrobes just visible from above, beginning between the middle and apex, 

 deep there, extending towards but not quite reaching the front of the eyes. 

 Scape stout, gradually incrassate, inserted before the middle and attaining 

 the centre of the eye. Funiculus 7-articulate ; 2nd joint rather longer than 

 broad and fully half the length of the basal, 3rd and 4tli as long as broad, 

 5th and 6th moniliform, the 7th rather larger. Cliib oblong-oval, triarticu- 

 late, terminal joint longest. Eyes quite free from thorax, slightly pro- 

 minent, lateral, subovate, transverse. Thorax without perceptible ocular 

 lobes, truncate at base and apex, of equal length and breadth. Scutellum 

 small. Elytra oblong, nearly thrice the length of thorax, distinctly wider 

 than it is at the base. 



Legs moderately elongate ; femora stout and subclavate ; tibiae flexuous, 

 the anterior mucronate, the others strongly bent and produced inwardly 

 at the extremity. Tarsi with brush-like soles, but glabrous along the 

 middle ; 2nd joint short, penultimate dilated and bilobed, the terminal as 

 long as the others combined, with simple claws. 



Prosternum widely emarginate. Front coxae contiguous, the inter 

 mediate moderately, posterior widely separated. Metasternum short. 

 Basal ventral segment truncate between the coxae, slightly sinuate behind ; 

 2nd quite half as long, and only slightly longer than the 3rd or 4th ; 5th 

 rather shorter than the basal, subtruncate and finely ciliate behind ; 6th 

 very short. 



The different scrobes, as well as the apical structure of the tibiae prevent 

 the type of this genus being phiced in Lijperohius. 



3761. Liparogetus sulcatissimus sp. nov. 



Subovate, moderately convex, nitid ; nigrescent, antennae and tarsi 

 piceous ; vestiture white, scanty and hair-like, confined principally to the 

 elytral striae. 



Rostrum finely but distinctly punctate in front, more distinctly and 

 closely elsewhere ; it is neaily flat or feebly bi-impressed near the middle, 

 12— Bull. No. L 



