CRYPTORHYNCHIDAE. 651 



Rostrum arched, as long as thorax, very gently narrowed towards the 

 middle, piceouS; bare and closely punctate in front ; with a fine carina along 

 the middle and an oblique less distinct one near each side, its base bicristate. 

 Thorax a fifth broader than long, its frontal half abruptly contracted, base 

 subtruncate ; disc nearly level, its i^unctation concealed with a few short, 

 suberect, squamiform blackish setae, and a distant pair of small crests 

 across the front of its broad basal portion. Scutellum indistinct. Elytra 

 2|- times the length of thorax, about a fourth broader, the somewhat 

 elevated oblique shoulders of about the same width as thorax at the base, 

 their sides a little uneven but subparallel to the commencement of the 

 sloping, gradually narrowed posterior declivity ; they are subseriate- 

 punctate, third interstices, between the base and hind thighs, Avith three 

 subrotundate crests, the hindmost obscurely fulvescent, the others dark, the 

 fifth with similar crests but placed farther back, and with a small grey one 

 on top of the declivity, where there is another grey spot near the side. 

 Tarsi rather narrow, penultimate joint slightly broader. 



Scape slender, inserted between the middle and apex, attaining the front 

 of the eye ; basal joint of funiculus shorter than second, 3-7 decrease in 

 length ; club elongate. 



Underside nigrescent, with pale -tawny scales and setae. Abdomen 

 elongate, second segment much shorter than the basal and not much longer 

 than the third or fourth . 



In form this most nearly approaches the northern C. variegatus (892), 

 but the vestiture is entirely different. C. humeralis (3320) may be at once 

 separated by its much shorter oviform club, &c. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 7 mm. ; breadth, 3|^ mm. 



Stephen Island. One, found by Mr. A. C. O'Connor on the 17th 

 September. 1916. 



Sympedius Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 499. 

 4234, Sympedius minor sp. nov. 



Convex, compact, opaque ; nigrescent, basal half of thorax rufescent, 

 antennae and tarsi light fusco-rufous ; densely covered with more or less 

 overlapping, variegate, principally dark fuscous squamae, and short erect 

 setae. 



Rostrum only slightly expanded near the base, a third shorter than 

 thorax, nearly smooth and bare before the antennae. Thorax a third 

 broader than long, depressed but not abruptly contracted in front, with a 

 pair of prominent, palish apical crests ; the basal half with some reddish, 

 suberect scales in front and greyish ones at the sides, and a pair of dark 

 oblique marks near the middle of the base ; it is very distinctly and closely 

 ininctate. Scutellum distinct. Elytra hardly at all broader than thorax 

 at the base, twice its length, almost straight to beyond the hind thighs, 

 curvedly deflexed and narrowed behind, their punctation quite hidden ; the 

 quadrate basal space is pale reddish-brown, there is a pair of small obtuse 

 elevations before the middle and another in line with the hind thighs. 



Scape rather short and stout, gradually thickened, inserted just before 

 the middle but not reaching the eye ; basal joint of funiculus stouter and 

 slightly longer than the next, joints 3-7 transverse ; club oblong-oval, finely 

 pubescent, triarticulate. 



Underside covered with depressed fuscous and greyish scales. Pectoral 

 <;anal deep, extending to front of middle coxae. Third and fourth ventral 



