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Gen. Ctenoiieiirus n. 



Ptostrum totum in sulco rostrali hand vel vix incu- 

 batum. 



Abdomen subtus convexura. 



Segmentum quintum ventrale feminae aute valvulas ge- 

 nitales unisinuatum, margine postico ante rimam genitalem 

 ne minime quidem prominulo. 



Cetera ut in Neurocteno Fieb. 



This genus is intermediate between Neiiroctenus and 

 Bradiyrrhyndms, agreeing witb the former one in the struc- 

 ture of the rostral furrow, but having the convex venter 

 and the unisinuate female lifth ventral segment of the lat- 

 ter genus. 



1. C. Hochstetteri Mayr. 



Elongatus, opacus, niger vel abdomine, limbo postico 

 pronoti pedibusque interdum piceis-, caput latitudine sua 

 distincte longius; antennae capite Va longiores, articulis 

 crassiusculis, longitudine subaequalibus; processus apicalis 

 capitis articulum primum antennarum distinctissime supe- 

 rans, apice leviter sinuatus; spinae postoculares obtusae, 

 oculos haud vel vix superantes; rostrum prosternum attin- 

 gens; pronotum medio transversim plus minusve distincte 

 impressum, lateribus leviter rotundatis, haud sinuatis; scu- 

 tellum disco planum vel carina media longitudinali obtusa 

 saepe obsoleta instructum, lateribus apicem versus extus le- 

 vissime curvatis; corium scutello longius, angulo apicali 

 acuto, margine apicali intus sinuato; membrana segmentum 

 dorsale sextum attingens, dimidia latitudine abdominis la- 

 tior, nervösa, fusca vel fusco-nigricans, basi obscure luteo- 

 bimaculata, limbo nitido. Long. ef 7V2 — 8 mm. $ 8 — 

 10 mm. 



Neuroctenus Hochstetteri Mayr, Verh. zool. 

 bot. Ges. Wien XVI, 365 (1866); Reise d. Novara, Hem. p. 

 166 f. 47. 



Habitat in Nova Zelandia. 



