038 COLEOPTKRA. 



on each elytron there are two inner series, about five in each, of oblong 

 punctures, the otlier series are interrupted by niinute tubercles and crests ; 

 third interstices thickly elevated and setigerous at the base, interruptedly 

 and much less obviously behind, scutellar region depressed ; across the 

 top of the posterior declivity there are usually six minute horizontal tufts, 

 a lateral, more nodiform and prominent one in hne with these and a 

 similarly setigerous one just below it ; towards each side of the basal half 

 die surface is uneven and setigerous, the declivity is substriate-punctate. 



Legs moderately stout and elongate, with decumbent setae only ; tibiae 

 nearly straight, mucronate. 



Scape inserted between the middle and apex, flexuous, gradually sub- 

 clavate, extending to the middle of eye ; basal joint of funiculus thicker 

 but hardly longer than the next, joints 3-6 transverse, seventh distinctly 

 larger ; club subovate, not elongate, its apical joints very small. 



Fern. — Underside piceo-fuscous, with a few fine greyish setae. Abdomen 

 almost quite smooth, second segment longer and flatter than the basal, 

 its frontal suture obtusely angulate in the middle, fifth longer than third 

 and fourth together, with a minute apical fovea. The mentum and sub- 

 mentuni subquadrate and about equal. Palpi uncovered. Rostrum rather ' 

 longer, more slender and subparallel. 



Male. — Metasternum and basal ventral segment broadly depressed in 

 the middle, fifth minutely granulate, and witii a broad apical depression. 



The nearest species is A. ocularius (3603). 



Length (rosti'um inclusive), 4 mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Glenhope, Nelson; 20th December, 1914. Mr. T. Hall found about 

 eight specimens altogether, a few of which were caught on Mount Slips 

 and adjacent localities. 



Dermotrichus Sharp. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1205. 

 4216. Dermotrichus vicinus sp. no v. 



Opaque, elongate-subovate, slightly convex ; fuscous, rostrum and 

 thorax more rufescent, antennae and tarsi infuscate-red ; thinly covered 

 with short, depressed, flavescent squamiform setae, and coarser suberect 

 ones which form crests. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, arched, subnitid, nude, finely punctate, and 

 moderately expanded in front, obtusely bicarinate along the middle behind 

 the antennae and with another carina at each side, the intervals with small 

 squamae. Eyes just free, small, subrotundate, with a pair of minute 

 crests between them. Thorax slightly broader than long, a little wider 

 before the middle than elsewhere, narrower in front than behind ; slightly 

 imeven, basal impression not deep, its punctation moderately coarse but 

 shallow and distant, the front almost smooth ; the coarser setae form a 

 pair of small apical crests, and three just before the middle. Elytra 

 oviform, curvedly deflexed and attenuate behind, 2| times the length of 

 thorax, a third broader at the middle, of the same width as it is at the base, 

 which is subtruncate ; they are obsoletely seriate-punctate, substriate 

 behind ; the suberect coarse setae are congregated in patches, of which 

 there are three near each shoulder, eight or ten form an interrupted 

 transverse series behind the middle, the series farther back is nearly absent 

 across the middle but prominent at the sides, and there are two series near 

 the extremity alongside the suture. 



Legs with depressed scale-like setae ; posterior tibiae more obviously 

 acuminate than in the female. 



