450 COLEOPTERA. 



Underside thickly covered with tawny scak's, but with dark ones at the 

 sides of the intermediate segments. Metasternum short, broadly depressed, 

 in the middle. Second segment rather shorter than the basal, its frontal 

 suture obtusely angulate in the middle. 



The coarsely seriate-punctate elytra, white scutellum, rather short and 

 broad antennal club, and the almost pearl-like scales on the thorax, taken 

 together, i-endei- it distinct. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 3J mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Scarcliff, near Mount Algidus. Found by Mr. T. Ha 1 amongst decaying 

 leaves; 20th September, 1913. Apparently rare. The lustrous scales are 

 more easily seen when brushed with benzine. 



3937. Getacalles foveiceps sj). nov. 



Oblong, asperate, opaque ; piceous, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi more 

 or less fusco-rufous ; covered with overlapping, depressed, slightly varie- 

 gated light-brown scales, the erect ones tawny and dark fuscous, the dark 

 ones most conspicuous on the thorax and across the elytral declivity. 



Rostrum slightly shorter than thorax, thickly squamose nearly to the 

 apex. Head apparently depressed, owing to the minute pair of interocular 

 crests. Thorax a third broader than long, its frontal half abruptly con- 

 tracted, with an indistinct longitudinal carina near its base ; the hinder 

 portion twdce as broad, indistinctly bicristate on the middle in front. 

 Scutellum greyish. Elytra oblong, twice the length of thorax, their thick 

 porrect shoulders rather wider than it is at the base, considerably narrowed 

 and vertical behind ; the sutural punctation seriate, that near the sides 

 coarser and very irregular ; 3rd interstices tricristate, their posterior crests 

 most prominent, 5th somewhat similarly crested, the terminal one placed 

 lower down and usually larger than that of the 3rd, 2nd interstices slightly 

 elevated at the base. 



Differentiated by the ratliei- longer and narrower club than that of 

 G. haccatellus, the absence of lustrous scales, the more vertical declivity, 

 finer sutural punctation, more prominent crests, and interocular fovea. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 3| mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Clipping's Bush, Kingston. Two, found on the 29th January, 1914, by 

 Mr. T. Hall. 



3938. Crisius posticalis sp. nov. Crisius Pascoe, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. .500. 



Piceous, rostrum and antennae rufescent, tarsi more infuscate ; covered 

 with depressed, small, rotvmdate, principally ferriiginous scales on the 

 elytra, but with coarser suberect ones on the shoulders and uneven parts ; 

 those on the thoracic disc elongate and depressed, but f(u-nring a pale streak 

 near each side, the others form a pair of median and apical crests. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, a little dilated and ridged near the base, 

 the apical half in the male very finely longitudinally rugose and with an 

 interantennal groove, in the female bare near the apex only, which part 

 is quite mimitely and distantly punctate. Thorax rather broader than 

 long, its frontal portion moderately contracted, sometimes, owing to the 

 presence of coarse lateral squamae behind, appearing abruptly narrowed ; 

 its rather fine punctation concealed. Scutellum pale and small. Elytra 

 ratlier more than twice the length of thorax, widest jiist behind the oblique 

 slioulders. at that point a third broader tlian the thoracic base, gradually 



