434 COLEOPTERA 



shoulders proininont. tlio intcrstir-os scarcely differ from one another, the 

 apices are less prolonj^ed, but instead of being straight or slightly incurved 

 at the extremity they are obviously divergent. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 7 mm. ; })readth, nearly 21 mm. 



Hollyford ; 18th February, 1914. Found at night on a mossy tree by 

 Mr. T. Hall, wliose name has been i>iven to it. 



3914. Dermotrichus multicristatus sp. nov. Dermotrichus Sharp, Man. 

 N.Z. r>)leopt., p. 1205. 



Opaque, fusco-piceous, rostrum, antennae, and legs fusco-rufous : 

 irregularly clothed with depi-essed, slender, and longer, suberect flavescent 

 s(jiiamae. 



Rostrum strongly arched, nearly as long as thorax, slightly dilated and 

 indistinctly pmictured before the middle, convex or obtusely carinate 

 behind, with some small squamae. Eyes small, with distinct facets, sub- 

 rotmidate, less distant from the thorax than from each other. Head short, 

 i\arrowed anteriorly, minutely bicristate. Thorax not longer than broad, 

 widest near the middle, about equally narrowed before and behind, base 

 truncate, medially depressed there, with a few fine punctures in front ; the 

 scales so concentrated as to form a pair of small apical crests, an elongate 

 central one, and a shortei' pair at each side of it. Scutellum in\'isible. 

 Elytra oviform, nearly double the width of thorax in the middle, twice its 

 length, very slightly broader than it is at the base, medially depressed 

 there, deflexed, but not abruptly so, behind ; their punctate striae are 

 rendered indistinct by the squamae, which are concentrated in lines along 

 the middle, but form elongate conspicuous crests inside the shoulders, on 

 top of the declivity there is a transverse series of about 8 miequal crests ; 

 just below these, at each side, there is a larger one ; these are the principal 

 ones, but there are others near each side and on the posterior declivity. 



Legs with depressed greyish scales and a few setae ; front tibiae nearly 

 straight, the others slightly flexuous and distinctly mucronate. 



Scape rather slender, flexuous, moderately clavate, attaining the front 

 or centre of the eye, with a few fine elongate decumbent squamae ; basal 

 joint of funiculus thicker but scarcely longer than the next, joints 3-6 

 transversely quadrate, 7th larger; club densely pubesceiit, rather large, 

 subpvrifoi'm, apical articulations indistinct. 



Underside dull fuscous, finely and sparingly squamose. Prosternum 

 emarginate in front. Metasternum truncate in front, very short, hardly 

 longer than the coxae. Second ventral segment larger than the 1st, its 

 frontal suture oblique towards the sides and subangulate in the middle, 

 3rd and 4th together evidently shorter than 5th, which is slightly rufescent, 

 with an obtuse elevation each side of the middle. 



Fern. — Rostrum slightly longer than thorax. 



The squamose vestiture should perhaps exclude this species from 

 Dermotrichus ; the typical species, D. mundulxs (2133), I have not seen. 

 The legs and antennae, I presume, are piceous, the elytra seem to be with- 

 out punctation or striae ; it measures 3 mm. in length — whether the rostrum 

 is included or not I cannot state. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 4 mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



Mount Earnslaw and Hollyford. About two dozen specimens, from 

 Mr. T. Hall. 



