SALPINGIDAE. 543 



4074:. Agapytho foveicollis sp. nov. 



Elongate, slightly convex, nitid ; thinly clothed along the middle of 

 the elytra with fine erect yellow hairs, near the sides they are subdepressed, 

 thicker, and greyish, on the thorax they are quite yellow but unevenly 

 distributed ; fusco-fulvous, sometimes darker, about half of the outer part 

 of each elytron irregularly fuscous. 



Head as broad behind as the front of thorax, rather shorter, narrowed 

 and moderately prolonged before the antennal insertion ; distinctly but 

 not coarsely or closely punctured. Thorax obtusely angulate and widest 

 behind the middle, at that point as broad as it is long, lateral margins most 

 distinct there, shghtly sinuate towards the subrectangular posterior angles, 

 base truncate in the middle but oblique near the sides ; disc obtusely convex 

 along the middle, feebly bi-impressed in front, very distinctly bifoveate 

 near the base, its punctation like that of the head. Elytra rather broader 

 than thorax at the base, fully twice its length, subparallel, curvedly narrowed 

 behind ; their sculpture not seriate, similar to tliat of the thorax, finer 

 behind. 



Underside rufo-castaneous, with fine greyish pubescence. Head smooth 

 behind the middle, prosternum transversely rugose and punctate, meta- 

 sternum rather more coarsely and closely punctured than the abdomen. 



Var. — Darker, elytra to a large extent infuscate. 



Length, 2f-3 mm. ; breadth, 1 mm. 



Routeburn, 11th February, 1914; Hollyford, 23rd February, 1914. 

 Altogether about eight specimens, captured by Mr. T. Hall. Not at all 

 similar to any New Zealand member of the group, and easily distinguishable 

 by the pair of well-marked thoracic foveae. 



Group Otiorhynchidae. 

 Cecyropa Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 437. 

 4075. Cecyropa litorea sp. nov. 



Opaque, varying from rufo-piceous to fuscous ; densely covered with 

 tawny-grey, flat, rotundate squamae and many suboblong, scale-like decum- 

 bent setae ; legs and antennae obscurely rufescent, bearing whitish scales 

 and setae ; the sides of the body also setigerous. 



Rostrum about half the length of thorax, more or less rufescent and 

 slightly asperate in front, with a few erect yellowish setae there, and with 

 a slender median stria behind. Thorax nearly a fourth broader than 

 long, widest and strongly rounded at the middle, rather more gradually 

 narrowed behind than in front, very slightly constricted at the apex ; 

 Avithout visible sculpture. Scutellum small. Elytra cordiform, the base 

 fully as broad as the widest part of thorax, almost twice its length, their 

 shoulders rather wider and oblique but not conspicuously dilated ; they 

 are distinctly punctate striate from base to apex. 



Scape very gradually incrassate, extending to beyond the thoracic apex ; 

 second joint of funiculus hardly at all shorter than the stout basal, joints 

 3-7 transverse, seventh rather broader than the others ; club short, quadri- 

 articulate. 



Anterior tibiae nearly straight, the apical dilatation covers the basal 

 tarsal joint, the other pairs expanded at the extremity ; external trunca- 

 ture of posterior corbels moderately broad and very coarsely ciliate. 



