RHYPAROSOMIDAE. 437 



Scape moderately slender, straight, subclavate at extremity, hardly 

 reaching the back of the eye ; 2nd joint of funiculus elongate and slender 

 yet shorter than the 1st, the 3rd much shorter, joints 4-7 submoniliform ; 

 club large, oblong-oval. 



The rostrum is slightly longer and more parallel than that of P. 'philpotti, 

 and therefore less oviform in front ; the antennae are more slender and 

 the tibiae less flexuous. There can be little difficulty in identifying this 

 species owing to the close granular sculpture, and the unusual length of the 

 elytra behind the posterior femora. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 10|^ mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



Mistake Basin, west of Mount Algidus. Unique. Found by Mr. T. 

 Hall at an elevation of 3,000 ft. 



3918. Phygothalpus sulcipennis sp. nov. 



Suboblong-oval, slightly nitid ; nigrescent, antennae and tarsi piceous ; 

 moderately closely covered with depressed, rather small but elongate ashy 

 squamae. 



Rostrum indistinctly tricarinate, somewhat longitudinally rugose and 

 punctate behind, the apex finely and closely. Head gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly, distinctly and closely punctate, with a small central fovea. Eyes 

 very slightly convex, quite lateral, the lower space between each and the 

 thorax almost smooth. Thorax of equal length and breadth, just per- 

 ceptibly broader near the front than behind, slightly obliquely narrowed 

 in front ; with a linear median impression which becomes obsolete behind 

 the middle, moderately closely but not coarsely punctate, without super- 

 ficial inequalities, the base a little rou.nded. Scutellum small but distinct. 

 Elytra oblong-oval, slightly broader than thorax at the base, nearly thrice 

 its length ; regularly and distinctly punctate-striate, interstices slightly 

 convex, finely punctate. 



Scape flexuous, gradually incrassate, attaining the back part of the 

 eye, bearing fine grey setae ; basal joint of the funicle not double the length 

 of the elongate 2nd, 3rd slightly longer than 4th, the following ones bead- 

 like, 7th rather transverse ; club elongate-oval. Tibiae slightly flexuous, 

 the anterior indistinctly mucronate, the others expanded and inwardly 

 prominent at the extremity. 



The even surface of the thorax, its abbreviated and slender discal channel, 

 and smooth interstices, the evidently striate elytra, the slightly flexuous 

 and obsoletely mucronate front tibiae, and the presence of moderately 

 developed oculai' lobes distinguish it. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), S^ mm. ; breadth, 3^ mm. 



Mount Dick. A single specimen found by Mr. T. Hall under a stone, 

 at an elevation of 4,000 ft., on the 10th March, 1914. 



3919. Nestrius sulcirostris sp. nov. Nestrius Broun, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 1480. 



Elongate, moderately convex, subopaque ; fuscous, rostrum and thorax 

 usually more rufescent, antennae and legs fusco-rufous ; rather thinly 

 clothed with moderate!}^ slender, greyish-yellow, erect and subdepressed 

 setae. 



Rostrum rather shorter than thorax, parallel, impunctate, broadly 

 and rather deeply sulcate from the antennae to its base, which is on a lower 

 level than the head. Thorax oviform, a little broader before the middle 



