RHYI'AROSOMIDAE. 435 



3912. Clypeorhynchus nitidellus sp. nov. 



Convex, slit^htly iiitid ; lufo-castaneous, middle of thorax and elytra 

 infuscate ; irregularly and sparingly clothed with short, depressed, 

 fulvescent setae, and some erect, elongate, darker ones. 



Rostrum stout, rather shorter than thorax, indistinctly sculptured, 

 feebly bicarinate, dark red and almost smooth in front. Eyes subdepressed, 

 rather large, subrotundate, with an intervening impression. Thorax very 

 little longer than broad, slightly wider before the middle than behind,, 

 subconstricted in front ; with a broad but not deep frontal impression 

 which becomes quite narrow behind ; its punctation moderate, shallow 

 and slightly rugose, with some longitudinal rugae in front, and with a 

 moderate nodiform elevation near the middle of each side ; the setae are 

 most conspicuous at the apex, on the nodosities, and along a line towards 

 each shoulder. Elytra oblong-oval, with slightly oblique shoulders, scarcely 

 at all broader at the base than the thorax, almost thrice its length ; they 

 are evidently and nearly quite regularly punctate-striate from base to apex ; 

 with slightly convex, nearly smooth interstices, the 2nd and 4th are a little 

 elevated and thickly setose at the base, which is a little depressed at the 

 suture ; the setae do not form definite patches. 



Scape flexuoiis, rather slender, gradually incrassate, with a few slender 

 erect setae ; basal joint of the funicle distinctly flexuous and rather longer 

 than the next, 3rd and 4th shorter than 2nd yet elongate, the following ones 

 longer than broad ; club elongate-oval. Legs normal, tibiae moderately 

 flexuous. 



The somewhat shining surface, the oviform, obviously punctate-striate 

 elytra, the shallow thoracic channel and punctation, combined with the 

 perfectly natural and equally flexuous basal articulation of each antenna, 

 are sufficient for immediate recognition. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 8 mm. ; breadth, fully 2| mm. 



Routeburn, north of Lake Wakatipu. Unique. Taken off trees along 

 with other Coleoptera during the night of the 16th February, 1914, by 

 Mr. T. Hall. 



3913. Clypeorhynchus halli sp. nov. 



Subelongate-oval, subopaque ; castaneo-fuscous, antennae and tarsi rufo- 

 castaneous, rostrum nigrescent ; sparingly clothed with flavescent, depressed, 

 very short squamiform setae, and with longer, coarser, and sometimes 

 suberect ones near the sides and behind. 



Rostrum almost smooth and glabrous in front, finely tricarinate behind, 

 the central carina, however, hardly extends forwards as far as the middle ; 

 there is no perceptible punctation. Head simple, not foveate. Thorax 

 hardly longer than broad, of the usual shape, distinctly, rather closely and 

 coarsely punctured, with narrow smooth intervals, dorsal channel shallow 

 and somewhat medially interrupted. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong- 

 oval, incurved at the base so that the shoulders appear shghtly porrect ; 

 they are wider than the thorax but hardly thrice its length, with moderately 

 prolonged, dentiform, quite divergent apices ; their striae are subcrenate- 

 punctate and deeper at the base than behind ; interstices broad, with 

 minute subgranular sculpture. 



Somewhat similar to C. setosus, darker, joints 5-7 of the funiculus equally 

 small a' d beadlike, rostral carinae different, thorax more deeply and 

 distinctly punctate ; the elytra shorter, more incurved at the base, their 



