ANTHICIDAE. 691 



Head apparently impunctate, including the large prominent e3^es 

 evidently broader than the thorax, which is rather longer than broad, deeply 

 constricted behind the middle and with some small punctures near the base. 

 Elytra elongate, the extremity and shoulders rounded, nearly double the 

 width and thrice the length of thorax ; their punctation irregular, rather 

 fine yet distinct, but hardly extending backwards as far as the middle ; 

 there is an obtuse elevation on each near the base so that the yellow space 

 behind it as well as the suture seem depressed. Pygidium hardly at all 

 exposed. 



Antennae stout, with pale outstanding slender setae ; basal joint finely 

 punctate, thicker and rather longer than second, third rather longer than 

 adjoining ones, fifth and sixth slightly broader than fourth, the following 

 four more obconical, eleventh longest and subacuminate. 



Near C. crispi (727), rather more robust, with stouter somewhat 

 differently formed antennae, their basal joint much thicker, the eyes more 

 prominefit and larger, and the scutellum larger. The basal elevations 

 of the elytra are absent in 727, which, moreover, has an infuscate fascia 

 behind the middle of each elytron. 



Length, 3| mm. ; breadth, quite 1 mm. 



Pakarau, North Auckland ; 19th May, 1918. Described from a specimen 

 found bv Mr. A. E. Brookes. 



Group Otiorhynchidae. 



Catoptes Schoenherr. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 428. Syn. Irenimus 



Pascoe (p. 443). 



4292. Catoptes apicalis sp. nov. 



Fuscous, funiculus and tarsi castaneo-rufous ; covered chiefly with 

 small depressed fusco-testaceous squamae, rarely fulvescent, these, however, 

 along the third and fifth interstices of the elytra gradually become darker, 

 so that the nodosities on these at the summit of the posterior declivity 

 are quite fuscous, the declivity itself, however, is covered with yellowish- 

 grey scales and short setae like those on the third and fifth interstices as 

 well as those on the thorax. 



Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, subparallel, obtusely carinate 

 along the middle. Thorax slightly broader than long, wider before the 

 middle than elsewhere, base and apex truncate ; its surface apparently 

 imjninctate, a little uneven, more or less distinctly channelled along the 

 middle. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong, more than double the length 

 of thorax, their rounded shoulders rather broader than it is at the base, 

 their sides nearly straight, posterior declivity considerably narrowed back- 

 wards, its lower half vertical, the upper slightly curved but extending as 

 far backwards, or nearly so, as the apex ; they are distinctly but not 

 coarsely seriate-punctate. 



Scape attaining the back of the eye, gradually iucrassate, dull, finely 

 setose ; basal two joints of the funiculus about equally but moderately 

 elongate, 3-7 slightly longer than broad ; club elongate-ovate, qiiadri- 

 articulate. 



Underside light castaneous, metasternum and basal two ventral segments 

 covered with small light coppery scales and a few short grey setae, the 

 other segments setigerous. Prosternum dee])ly emarginate. Basal ventral 

 seginent subtruncate between the coxae, slightly longer than the second 



