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thorax are also aids to identification. The exposure of the pygidium is 

 probably abnormal. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 5 mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Howard Goldfield, Nelson. Two, found by Mr. T. Hall on the 10th 

 May, 1915 ; one mounted on its back. 



4080. Phrynixus humilis sp. nov. 



Subovate, moderately convex, opaque ; fuscous, rostrum rufescent, 

 antennae and legs pale fuscous ; irregularly clothed with pale - tawny 

 squamae, some fulvescent ones on the thorax and along the middle of the 

 elytra, and feather-like greyish ones on the shoulders and hinder portion 

 of elytra. 



Smaller than P. squamalis, with more obscurely coloured vestiture, which 

 on the thorax and rostrum is similarly disposed. The elytra, however, are 

 less cordiform, the posterior declivity is nearly vertical, their shoulders are 

 obviously though rather obtusely porrect, their punctation is finer and more 

 distant, and the posterior striae are indistinct. 



The rostrum and antennae are relatively shorter, the scape attains 

 the front of the eye, the femora are equally slender at the base and clavate 

 in the middle, the pygidium is not exposed ; the scrobes, tibiae, &c., are 

 like those of P. squamalis. 



Underside light castaneous, with depressed taw^ny scales. Abdomen 

 rather convex, basal segment subtruncate between the coxae, medially 

 incurved behind, less reduced than in P. squamalis yet distinctly longer 

 than the second. 



In a second specimen, probably the female, the elytra are subquadrate, 

 being only slightly longer than broad, and the coarser squamae are more 

 concentrated on the summit of the declivity, which ajjpears quite vertical. 



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



Howard Goldfield ; 10th May, 1915. A single male, from Mr. T. Hall. 



4081. Phrynixus amoenus sp. nov. 



Elongate, moderately convex, opaque ; piceous, antennae and tarsi 

 fusco-rufous ; irregularly clothed with small, depressed and suberect fer- 

 ruginous squamae, the shoulders with an oblique crest on each formed of 

 pale, upright, feather-like scales, similar ones form a pair of prominent 

 tufts on the top of the posterior declivity, and lower down, at each side, 

 there is a rather larger rufescent one. 



Rostrum nearly a third shorter than thorax, arched, a little narrower 

 behind than in front, which is nearly bare and indistinctly sculptured, the 

 basal portion has a ferruginous median squamose ridge, and just before the 

 antennae there is a pair of quite minute pale crests. Thorax apparently 

 elongate, yet only slightly longer than broad, evidently narrower than 

 elytra, its sides almost straight behind, slightly wider and unevenly squamose 

 before the middle, its base truncate ; disc irregularly punctate, with three 

 frontal ridges which extend to beyond the middle, the central one is rufes- 

 cent and slender, the others more prominent and mixed with pale scales, 

 there is a median depression at the base. El}i;ra unevenly oblong-oval, 

 each side being quadricristate, nearly double the length of thorax, vertical 

 behind, they are bisinuate at the base, scarcely any wider than the thorax 

 there, and the shoulders are not perceptibly porrect ; dorsum nearly plane, 

 with a few minute graniiles, broadly impressed at the base, irregularly 

 punctate and bearing, besides the prominent ones, a few small unequal 



