332 COLEOPTERA. 



from each antenna a broad groove proceeds backwards, these grooves 

 become convergent at the base and almost reach the rather deep, elongate 

 interocular impression. Head rather short, almost as broad as the thoracic 

 apex, distinctly and moderately closely punctured. Thorax slightly and 

 obtusely dilated before the middle, gently narrowed behind, the base sub- 

 marginate and with almost rectangular angles, its apex somewhat con- 

 stricted ; its surface is a little uneven^ being tri-impressed near the base, and 

 having also a median frontal impression, the punctation is moderately fine 

 on the middle but becomes rather coarser and closer and somewhat rugose 

 towards the sides. Elytra about a third broader than the thorax, with 

 slightly curvedly narrowed shoulders ; on each elytron there are 6 deep, 

 broad, punctate dorsal grooves, with equally broad, smooth, costiform inter- 

 stices, the 3rd and 5th are only slightly more convex than the others, which 

 are more or less irregularly confluent near the extremity ; the vertical sides 

 are similarly sculptured. 



Tibiae more or less minutely denticulate and setose inwardly. Antennae 

 sparsely pubescent. 



We have no other allied weevil with such deeply and regularly sulcate 

 elytra. 



Underside shining black, with some short, slender, depressed setae ; 

 rather finely punctate, the 1st and 5th segments of the abdomen most dis- 

 tinctly, the former broadly depressed ; head slightly transversely uigose. 



cj. Length (rostrum exclusive), 10 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Remarkables, near Queenstown, Otago. The only specimen I possess 

 was presented to me by Mr. M. 0. Pasco, who discovered it on the 28th 

 December, 1912. 



Group Hylobiidae. 

 3762. Bryocatus burrowsi sp. nov. Bryocalus Broun, Bulletin No. 1, 

 Part III,.N.Z. Inst., p. 218. 



Convex, subovate, moderately broad, opaque ; densely covered with 

 small, depressed, mostly greyish-tawny squamae, but with a broad whitish 

 streak along the middle of the thorax, and also bearing some coarse grey 

 scales ; fuscous, basal half of the scape and the claws slightly rufescent, 

 remainder of antennae and the tarsi blackish. 



Rostrum very slightly and gradually narrowed towards the setose apex, 

 at its base fully half the breadth of the front of thorax and rather longer 

 than it is. Thorax nearly a third broader than long, distinctly wider at the 

 middle than elsewhere, its sides obliquely narrowed, base slightly rounded, 

 apex sharply truncate ; the disc is moderately convex and the front a little 

 depressed, there are no other inequalities, and the punctation is invisible. 

 Elytra subcordate, almost twice the length of thorax, arcuate-emarginate 

 and slightly broader than it is at the base, widest near the middle, subvertical 

 and considerably narrowed behind ; they are striate, 3i'd interstices with a 

 pair of subcontiguous nodosities neai' the base, and 2 rathoi' larger, distinctly 

 separated ones behind ; 5th trinodose behind the middle, the sides less 

 evidently trinodose. 



Legs elongate and stout, very similar to those of B. jugosus, 3609. Scape 

 incrassate near the extremity, hardly reaching the eye. Club oblong-oval. 



This most nearly accords with B. jugosus, but the outline is interrupted 

 at the junction of the thorax and elytra, there are no thoracic ridges, the 

 shape and sculpture of the elytra differ, the club is rather longer, and the 

 basal half of the scape is reddish. From all the other members of the genus 

 it is markedly differentiated by the presence of some scattered, coarse, con- 



