644 COLEOPTERA. 



I nososgenes it is placed in it, but in this spocies the scrobes are hardly visible 

 above. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 3^ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Wadestown, near Wellington. A single specimen, sent bv Mr. A. C. 

 O'Connor on the lOtli August, 1916. 



Group Erirhixidak. 

 Dorytomus Germar. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 453, 



4223. Dorytomus australis sp. nov. 



Subovate-oblong, moderately convex, subopaque ; thinly clothed with 

 slender greyish hairs, the elytra with series of erect, rather coarser, yellowish, 

 grey setae ; body mostly testaceous, but with a streak along the middle of 

 thorax, a pair of spots in line with the hind thighs, and a smaller pair just 

 below the summit of posterior slope dark fuscous, base of elytra and thorax 

 slishtlv infuscate, rostrum and antennae fulvescent. 



Rostrum fully a third longer than thorax, parallel, arched, rather slender, 

 punctate behind the antennae, feebly carinate along the middle. Thorax 

 a third })roader than long, its sides moderately rounded, more obviously 

 narrowed in front than behind, base and apex truncate, without perceptible 

 ocular lobes ; distinctly punctured, less closely along the middle, the 

 intervals minutely sculptured, pubescence yellowish, coarser near the sides. 

 Scutellum suboblong, fuscous. Elytra oblong, gradually narrowed behind, 

 broader than thorax at the base, quite thrice its length ; their shallow, 

 rather closely punctate striae become deeper behind, the fourth and fifth 

 interstices end abruptly so that there appears to be a depression on each 

 elvtron behind them. Femora angulate and subdentate. 



Scape moderately slender, implanted just before the middle and reaching 

 the eye ; basal joint of funiculus thicker and longer than the elongate second, 

 third oblong, fourth shorter, 5-7 trans verseh^ moniliform ; club oblong- 

 oval, triarticulate. 



Underside light castaneous, with slender grey hairs. Metasternum 

 grooved along the middle. Second ventral segment shorter than the basal, 

 rather flat across the middle, its frontal suture slightly sinuate, third and 

 fourth as distinctly punctured as the fifth. 



The fuscous marks and seriate setae are distinctive. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 3J mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Dunedin. One, sent by Mr. A C. O'Connor, found by Mr. W. G. 

 Howes. 



Simachus Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 963. 



4224. Simachus placens sp. nov. 



Suboblong-oval, moderately convex, subnitid ; antennae, tibiae, and 

 elytra fulvescent ; these last with a large basal spot not) extending to the 

 sides, the suture and apical portion, and an elongate spot just behind each 

 of the posterior femora, and all the thorax, more or less rufo-fuscous ; the 

 rostrum and femora of a lighter hue ; })ubescence yellowish, rather more 

 slender and elongate, and disposed transversely on the thorax. 



Rostrum a fourth longer tlian tliorax, arched, parallel, moderately 

 slender, substriate-punctate. Thorax a third broader than long, moderately 

 rounded and widest before the middle, base and apex straight, without 

 ocular lobes ; distinctly and closely punctate. Scutellum suboblong. 



