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Eostrum half the length uf thorax, thick, slightly narrowed and finely 

 setose at the apex, with an indistinct median carina. Thorax very slightly 

 broader than long, obtusely rounded at or just before the middle, slightly 

 narrowed behind ; with coarse, short, irregular rugae, and a somewhat 

 interrupted but not deep central channel, and an oblique frontal impression 

 near each side. Elytra oblong, twice the length of thorax, incurved and a 

 little broader than it is at the base, so that the shoulders, though obtuse, 

 seem slightly porrect, a good deal narrowed and vertical behind ; they are 

 coarsely seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices slightly elevated along the middle, 

 evidently incrassate and raised at the base and terminating as distinct 

 nodosities on the summit of the declivity ; the 5th simple at the base, the 

 posterior nodosities more horizontal than those of the 3rd and not extending 

 as far back ; the suture slightly obhque and thickened at the base and 

 somewhat elevated behind as far as the middle of the declivity. 



Scape straight, gradually incrassate ; basal joint of funiculus as long 

 as the next, 3rd slightly longer than broad, joints 4-7 moniliform, club 

 elongate-oval. Posterior corbels thickly ciliate but not cavernous. 



With the exception of the less-developed ocular lobes, this species 

 corresponds with the generic diagnosis ; the body, however, is unusually 

 elongate. In the male, 6| mm. by 2| mm., the thorax is less rounded, 

 almost straight behind, with a more distinct mesial channel. Fifth ventral 

 segment much more finely setose than the others. 



$. Length (rostrum inclusive), 7 mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Mount Dick ; 17th March, 1914. Mr. T. Hall. One of each sex, found 

 in leaf-mould. 



3890. Brachyolus terricola sp. nov. 



Opaque, piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; densely covered with 

 depressed greyish and tawny squamae above, the sides of elytra with dark 

 fuscous ones ; the short, erect setae on the thorax and sides of elytra usually 

 fuscous, those on the raised elytral interstices are testaceous or greyish. 



Eostri;m rather shorter than thorax, distinctly medialty carinate. 

 Thorax nearly a third broader than long, a little wider before the middle 

 than elsewhere ; slightly transversely inlpressed near each side in front, 

 longitudinally at the middle of the base, the disc without definite rugae or 

 punctation. Elytra more than double the length of thorax, with oblique 

 shoulders, so that the base is hardly wider than that of the thorax ; not 

 asperate, their serial punctures rather shallow near the suture, coarser 

 towards the sides ; 3rd interstices somewhat elevated and terminating as 

 prominent nodosities on top of the declivity, usually infu.scate there, and 

 below that point distinctly ridged half-way towards the slightly dehiscent 

 apices, the 5th with smaller terminal nodosities. 



Scape ^\ath infuscate or greyish setae ; 2nd joint of funiculus as long 

 as the basal, 3rd and 4th longer than the following ones, 7th subtriangular. 

 hardly longer than broad ; club elongate. 



This does not agree with any of Sharpe's descriptions of 2116 to 2120 

 inclusive. In B. sylvatica (3127) the rostral carina is quite fine ; it differs 

 in other details as well. B. juscipictus (3597) may be distinguished by its 

 thoracic carina. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 6| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Moa Basin. Another of Mr. T. Hall's novelties; 20th October, 1913. 



