334 COI.KOPTEIIA. 



Mount Hutt. My specimen was found by Mr. T. Hall on the 15th 

 March, 1913, at an elevation of 4,500 ft. 



3764. Phygothalpus nitidulus sp. nov. PhygothaJpus Broun, Trans. N.Z. 



Inst., vol. 45, p. 117. 



Elongate, slightly convex, somewhat shining ; sparingly clothed with 

 decumbent, moderately short, flavescent setae, and a few erect ones on the 

 posterior declivity ; elytra fuscous, rostrum and thorax piceous, legs and 

 antennae rufo-castaneous. 



Head and rostrum nearly as long as thorax : the rostrum dilated before 

 the middle so that the deep scrobes at that pai-t are quite open above, its 

 frontal portion somewhat deflexed and rather finely punctate, but without 

 anv suture near the antennae, behind these distinctly punctured but only 

 indefinitely tricarinate in the male, quite obsoletely in the female ; head 

 with a narrow interocular fovea, less distinct in the male. Thorax shining, 

 subtruncate at base and apex, of almost equal length and breadth, rather 

 wider before the middle than elsewhere, nearly straight yet slightly narrowed 

 behind ; disc evenly, distinctly, but only moderately closely punctured, the 

 median groove rather fine and interrupted near the middle. Scutellum 

 small. Elvtra nearly thrice the length of thorax, ratlier broader than it is, 

 and somewhat incurved at the base, their sides but little curved, gradually 

 narrowed and deflexed behind ; dorsum regularly and evidently striate- 

 punctate, more distinctly striate towards the extremity, with broad, nearly 

 plane, finely punctate interstices. 



Scape subclavate near the extremity, reaching just beyond the middle 

 of the eye, finely and scantily setose ; basal joint of funiculus double the 

 length of the next, which is hardly twice as long as broad; remaining joints 

 more or less moniliform, 3rd scarcely longer than 4th, the 7th slightly broader 

 than 6th ; club distinctly triarticulate and pubescent, subacuminate. 



Tibiae flexuous, the anterior mucronate and bent inwards, the others, in 

 the male, dilated and acutely biangulate at the extremity. 



Underside shining, nigrescent, moderately finely but not closely punc- 

 tate, with some fine yellowish setae ; metasternum broadly impressed 

 behind, basal segment of abdomen subtruncate between the coxae, broadly 

 depressed along the middle, where it is rather longer than the metasternum, 

 its suture sinuate behind, 2nd medially depressed towards the front, evi- 

 dently shorter than the 1st, but slightly longer than the well-developed 

 3rd or 4th, the terminal ecjuals the basal in length. Soles of the tarsi irregu- 

 larly and finely setose, the penultimate joint most thickly. 



Considerably larger than the type of the genus, P. .sulcicoUis, 3287, the 

 rostrum indefinitely carinate, the thorax more finely punctate, with an 

 interrupted slender central groove, the elytra not distinctly striate, the 

 scape obviously thicker, the antennae and legs concolorous. and the tibiae 

 differing in structure. 



In ClypeorhynchuH the shoulders are oblique : in this genus they are only 

 a little curv^edly narrowed. 



(J. Length (rostrum inclusive), 8 mm. ; breadth. 3 mm. 



Remarkables, Otago. I am indebted to Mr. M. 0. I'asco, of Queens- 

 town, for one of each sex, found by him on the 28th December, 1912. 



3765. Phygothalpus majusculus sp. nov. 



Subopacjue, fusco-piceous, antennae and tarsi piceo-rufous ; covered 

 with decumbent infuscate setae, the elytra, in addition, with many erect 

 paler ones 



