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spicuous grey scales overlaying the finer vestiture ; there are about 10 of 

 these on the thorax, and many on the legs. 



Length (lostrum inclusive), 2J mm. ; breadth, 1 mm. 



Pudding Hill, near Methven. One found amongst moss and lichen, on the 

 8th March 1913, by Mr. W. Burrows, whose name has been given to it. 



Group Rhyparosomidae. 



3763. Ciypeorhynchus striatus sp. nov. Clypeorhynckus Sharp, Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 1210. 



Elongate, moderately convex, opaque ; rufo-fuscous, elytral disc darker, 

 antennae, tibiae, and tarsi chestnut-red ; irregularly clothed with coarse as 

 well as slender flavescent setae. 



Rostrum arched, rather shorter than thorax, finely tricarinate, coarsely 

 punctured, and covered with decumbent setae behind, its apical portion 

 shining, rufous, distinctly punctate, with only a few slender erect setae. 

 Head short, with an elongate interocular fovea. Eyes subdepressed, just 

 free, obliquely transverse. Thorax with feebly developed ocular lobes, 

 hardly any longer than broad, a little broader, and moderately rounded, 

 near the front than elsewhere ; its surface slightly uneven, impressed at 

 each side near the apex, rather coarsely and moderately closely punctured ; 

 bearing a few fine short setae on the middle, but coarser ones form an 

 •oblique streak near each side ; the broad median channel is deepest in 

 front. Elytra fully double the length of thorax, of the same width as it is 

 at the base, with slightly oblique shoulders, behind these very gradually 

 and j ust perceptibly narrowed to beyond the hind thighs ; their striae 

 appear broad and are distantly punctured, interstices somewhat uneven 

 but not granulate ; disc thinly clothed with subdepressed, moderately fine 

 setae, they are more concentrated on the shoulders but are coarser and form 

 patches on the posterior declivity, there are also many infuscate erect setae. 



Legs elongate, femora clavate and fuscous near the middle, slender and 

 rufescent at the base ; tibiae with outstanding setae, the anterior more 

 strongly flexuous and mucronate than the posterior. Tarsi with pilose 

 soles, their penultimate joint cleft to the base. 



Scape flexuous, attaining the back of the eye, bearing some fine erect 

 setae : basal joint of funiculus very elongate and slender, a third longer 

 than 2nd, joints 3-6 decrease in length, 7th bead-like ; club elongate-oval, 

 triarticulate, densely pubescent. 



Underside slightly nitid, with numerous fine yellow setae. Rostrum 

 broadly bisulcate. Prosternum coarsely punctate, deeply emarginate in 

 front. Metasternum very short, medially depressed. Basal ventral seg 

 ment nearly twice the length of the next, broadly impressed in the middle 

 subtruncate between the widely separated coxae, 3rd and 4th rather shorter 

 than 2nd, .5th as long as the 1st, truncate behind and much more ciosely 

 punctured there than in front, the 6th distinct, but short and broad. 



This cannot be Sharp's C. gracilipes, 2138, as the rostrum and thorax 

 are described as rugose, and the former evidently is without carinae. It 

 conies nearer to P. impresses, 2141, from Taieri, which has numerous spots 

 formed of congregated setae, interspersed with granular elevations on the 

 elytra, so that their surface appears more asperate, and their striae are 

 indefinite or obsolete. The thorax is rather broader before the middle and 

 more rugosely sculptured, and the whole insect is of a moi^ dusky hue 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 8 mm. ; breadth, 2-J mm. 



