CYLINDRORHTNIDAR. 699 



top of the posterior declivity, and lower down a pair of dark bare 

 spots are visible, the apices are setigerous. Legs with pale setae. 



Scape dull, setose, gradually incrassate, attaining the back of the 

 eye ; basal joint of the funiculus slightly longer than the next, joints 

 3-7 short and nioniliform ; club subacuniinate. 



Underside covered chiefly with elongate brassy scales and greyish 

 setae, third and fourth abdominal segments with setae only. Mandib- 

 ular scar present. Mentum truncate in front, rounded behind. Palpi 

 invisible. Metasternum short. Basal ventral segment almost plane, 

 broadly rounded in front, nearly double the length of second, the 

 suture nearly straight ; fifth elongate, with a rather shallow a])ical 

 fovea. Posterior coxae widely separated. Hind tibiae simple. 



Length (rostrum included), 6| mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Stephen Island ; 9th September, 1916. A single specimen from 

 Mr. A. C. O'Connor on the 25th August, 1918. 



Group Erirhinidae. 

 Erirhinus Schoenh. Man, N.Z. Coleopt., p. 449. 



4306. Erirhinus obscurus sp. nov. 



Oblong-oval, slightly convex ; fusco-testaceous, the funiculus, the 

 thorax except the base and apex, a large basal spot on each elytron, a 

 more elongate one near the hind thigh, and sometimes a smaller sub- 

 apical spot, infuscate ; covered with distinct, decumbent greyish-yellow 

 setae which, on the thorax, are disposed transversely. 



Rostrum rather longer than thorax. Moderately slender and arched, 

 subseriate-punctate. Head short, globose below. Eyes slightly pro- 

 minent, just free from thorax ; inwardly truncate. Thorax a third 

 broader than long, slightly wider near the middle than elsewhere, 

 distinctly but not closely punctate. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong- 

 oval, a little broader than thorax at the base, fully thrice its length, 

 distinctly striate-punctate. 



Underside fuscous, rather distantly and finely punctate. Prosternum 

 entire. Metasternum and basal segment of abdomen broadly depressed, 

 second segment nearly straight in front, not longer than third and 

 fourth together. 



Male. — Scape inserted at about a third from the apex of the rostrum 

 and reaching the eye ; basal joint of funiculus thicker and rather 

 longer than following two united, 4-7 short ; club ovate. Femora 

 clavate but not distinctly dentate below. 



In form somewhat similar to E. xenorhinvs (1532), which, however, 

 is readily distinguishable by its remarkably arched rostrum. 



Length (rostrum included), 3i mm. ; breadth, quite 1 mm. 



Staircase, south of Kemarkables. Found by the late Mr. T. Hall, at 

 an elevation of 2.100 ft., on the 1.5th March, 1914. 



4307. Erirhinus subconicollis sp. nov. 



Oviform, slightly convex, subopaque ; testaceous. Scutellum fuscous; 

 each elytron with a transverse subapical spot, three suboblong ones 

 near the hind thigh, and a longer one near the base, sonu'times pro- 

 longed towards the suture in the female, of similar dark colour ; thinly 

 clothed with greyish, decumbent, moderately elongate setae. 

 27— Bull. No. 1. 



