OTIORHYXCHIDAE. 419 



Underside with tawny-giey scales and short setae ; metasternum and 

 basal segment of abdomen broadly depressed, 2nd finely transversely rugose, 

 5th with subgranular sculpture. 



No othei' New Zealand weevil has such remarkable thoracic sculpture. 



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



Western Springs, near Auckland. Found by Mr. A. E. Brookes, clinging 

 to moss, on the 20th March, 1914. One only. 



^892. Inophloeus fuscatus sp. nov. IiiopJdoeus Pascoe. Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 439. 



Oblong, opaque, piceo-iEuscous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; covered 

 with depressed, light and dark fuscous squamae, the pale ones usually 

 most numerous on the rostrum and frontal part of thorax ; the setae on 

 the elytra are decumbent and greyish, those on the thorax and rostrum 

 .are short, erect, and dark. 



Rostrum rather more than half the length of thorax, only slightly 

 dilated in front, the median carina distinct, the lateral ones much less so. 

 Head convex. Thorax hardly at all broader than long, a little wider before 

 the middle than elsewhere, gradually narrowed behind ; the median channel 

 distinct near the base, nearly obsolete in front, its sculpture consists of small 

 obtuse tubercles or rugae behind, in many of these there i^ a minute seti- 

 gerous puncture, the apical sculpture is finer. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra 

 oblon^i, quite double the length of thorax, somewhat incurved and evidently 

 bi'oader than it is at the base, the sides only slightly curvedly narrowed there, 

 rather gradually narrowed backwards, more strongly near the subvertical 

 •decHvity, apices not definitely divergent ; dorsum nearly plane, distinctly 

 seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices costiform, moderately nodose on top of the 

 •declivity and prolonged as a slight ridge nearly to the extremity ; 5th 

 rather less costiform, but with more elongate and horizontal posterior 

 elevations, the 7th form obtuse lateral margins ; the suture is somewhat 

 ■elevated behind. 



Antennae finely setose ; scape gradually incrassat ^ and attaining the 

 back of the eye ; 2nd joint of funiculu'^ almost as long as the basal, 3rd 

 longer than broad, joints 4-7 shorter, obconical ; club elongate-oval, quadri- 

 ga rticulate. 



Legs with coppery or greyish scales and grey setae ; tibiae flexuous, 

 posterior corbels with only a linear interval between the cilia. Prosternum 

 deeply eniarginate. 



This may be separated from species of about equal size by the absence 

 of any sutural projection on the summit of the posterior declivity. 



cJ. Length (ro.strum inclu.sive), 9 mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



Skipper's, east of northern part of Lake Wakatipu. Mr. M. 0. Pasco, 

 of Queenstown, kindly sent me a number of coleoptera that had been col- 

 lected by Mr. E. Sainsbury. They were in a bottle with alcohol and had 

 been shaken, so that they became entangled, and unfortunately, with the 

 exception of the pair of weevils described above, the finer species were too 

 much mutilated when got out of the bottle to be of much use. 



3893. Inophloeus collinus sp. nov. 



Elongate, nearly plane above, opaque ; nigrescent, antennae and tarsi 

 rufo - piceous ; densely covered with small, depressed, greyish - brown 



