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31)15. Dermotrichus elegantalis sp. nov. 



Elongate,' gradually uanowed medially, slightly convex, opaque ; 

 fuscous, legs, antennae, and rostrum fusco-rufous ; covered with depressed, 

 short, tawny squamae, and bearing numerous crests. 



Rostrum arched, slightly expanded in front in the male, subparallel 

 in the female, as long as the thorax, nearly smooth and glabrous before the 

 antennae, behind finely trisulcate and bearing 4 longitudinal seiies of small 

 transverse squamae. Head short, narrowed anteriorly, with a pair of 

 small crests. Eyes free from thorax, lateral, small, subrotmidate, nearly 

 flat. Thorax slightly longer than broad, a little wider near the middle 

 than elsewhere, rather more curvedly narrowed in front than behind ; 

 longitudinally depressed at the base, its moderately distant pimctation 

 concealed by the squainae ; it has a pair of small apical crests, 3 before 

 the middle still smaller, and similar scales form a streak along each side. 

 El}^.ra elongate-oval, deflexed and a good deal narrowed behind, of the 

 same width at the base as the thorax, quite double its length ; neither 

 striae nor punctures are visible, the basal depression is rather broader than 

 that of the thorax, and is bordered with concentrated squamae, these 

 form another basal streak near each side and a pair behind ; on the summit 

 of the declivity 4 distinct, but not very large, median crests are formed 

 of longer woolly scales ; there are usually 2 smaller pairs lower down, 

 and each side, near the top, is more or less distinctly tricristate. 



Scape moderately slender, clavate at the extremity, indistinctly 

 squamose, inserted before the middle and attaining the middle of the eye. 

 Second joint of funiculus as long as the 1st, joints 3-7 indistinctly separated, 

 apparently subquadrate ; club large, subpyriform. 



Underside dull dark fuscous, sparingly and finely squamose. Meta- 

 sternum short, subtruncate behind. Second ventral segment in the middle 

 as long as the basal, its frontal suture oblique at the sides, angulate in the 

 middle, and with a median fovea behind ; 3rd and 4th very short, with 

 straight deep sutures, 5th shoiier than 2nd. 



The elongate form, remarkable vestiture, and the foveiform scrobes, 

 which, however, are prolonged to the eyes as squamose grooves, might 

 warrant the exclusion of this rather elegant species from Dermotrichus. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 51 n^ni- ; breadth. If mm. 



Moa Basin, Canterbury. Six exaniples found by Mr. T. Hall amongst 

 decaying leaves on the ground : 20th October, 1913. 



3916. Phygothalpus philpotti sp. nov. P/H/(/ot/i(d/)Ns Broun, Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst., vol. 45, ]). 117. 



Suboblong-oval, with a slight silky gloss ; nigrescent, antennae and 

 tarsi piceous ; modei-ately covered with depressed fusco-fulvous setae 

 intermingled, on the elytra, with a few grey patches, and with some short 

 erect ones, those behind more conspicuous and longer. 



Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, its frontal half subovate and 

 pterygiate, the apical portion shining, finely punctured, and bearing a few 

 erect yellowish setae, coarsely and irregularly pmictate behind ; with a 

 slight median carina, the sublateral ones less distinct, all somewhat con- 

 vergent towards the shallow interocular fovea, the interantennal fovea 

 distinct. Eyes flat, lateral. Thorax scarcely any broader than long, a 

 little wider before the middle than elsewhere, rather more narrowed in 

 front than behind, with a broad discal channel which is even more expanded 



