416 Suarep—On New Zealand Coleoptera. 
Zealand insect it is apparently quite absent ; so that this genus cannot be assigned 
to the Otiorhynchidz with certainty at present. 
The rostrum is very short and thick, and the short scrobes are very deep; they 
possess, however, at their upper and posterior part, a slight prolongation directed 
towards the under-surface of the rostrum, not towards the eye; the mentum is 
rather small, but the maxille are not exposed; the scape of the antennz is 
elongate, reaching back behind the front margin of the thorax; the eyes are 
round, but little convex; the thorax is without the slightest trace of ocular lobes, 
but vibrissze are present in a rudimentary state; the prosternum is not emarginate 
in front, and is of moderate length ; the front coxze are rather small, and are con- 
tiguous, though their cavities are very nearly separated ; middle coxee a good deal, 
hind very widely separated’; first ventral segment moderate, separated from the 
second by a strongly arcuated suture, which is obliterated in the middle; tarsi 
with the third joint bilobed; the first joint of the front feet entirely concealed 
(viewed in front) by a prolongation of the tibize ; truncature of hind tibia uniform 
(= ‘‘ corbeilles caverneuses,” Lacordaire), and surrounded by short thick transparent 
setee, which are almost spines; the hind tibia is much dilated at the apex; the claws 
of the tarsi are small. 
The above characters are taken from Cecyropa albicans. C. tychioides, Pascoe, 
has the front coxee just perceptibly more separated, the thorax is provided with 
well-developed vibrissze (but, independent of these, is quite destitute of ocular 
lobes), and the corbels are studded with peculiar squamz or tubercles. Thus, it 
exhibits the characters of C. albicans in a more perfected degree. 
Cecyropa albicans, n. sp.—Rufa, fere ubique albido-squamosa, prothorace trans- 
versim subgloboso, antice angustiore; elytris subtiliter seriatim punctatis, lateribus 
post humeros dilatatis. Long. 5 m.m. 
Antennz with the scape covered with white scales, and bearing numerous erect 
setee, the third joint rather shorter than the second, the penultimate joints trans- 
verse, the club short-ovate; eyes very widely separated ; thorax broad, very 
much rounded at the sides, more narrowed in front than behind, and with a faint 
constriction behind the front; the base obsoletely margined, without channel or 
other impressions, uniformly covered with fine white scales, and also with minute 
distant sete ; elytra clothed like the thorax, but the setze are even more minute ; 
they bear regular series of fine distant punctures, and they have a lateral dilatation 
behind the shoulders ; a minute scutellum is visible. 
Otago. Professor Hutton ; one example. 
PROTOPHORMUS (nov. gen. Otiorhynchinorum). 
Rostrum breve, crassum, pterygiatum, scrobes brevissimee. Oculi subconvexi, 
a prothorace remoti; antennz elongate, scapo oculos superante, prothoracis mar- 
ginem attingente. Prothorax subcylindricus, lobis ocularibus nullis. 
