429 SuHarp—On New Zealand Coleoptera. 
ProroLosus (noy. gen. Otiorhynchinorum). 
Corpus parvum, indumento obscuratum, setosum; antennze scapo crasso ; 
rostrum breve crassum, scrobes modice elongatze parum distinctee; cox ante- 
riores contigue; loba ocularia parum distincta. 
This is undoubtedly closely allied to the preceding genus, though the front 
coxee are in the normal condition as to contiguity; the scrobes, too, are differ- 
ently constructed, instead of being broad and deep cavities tending directly 
upwards towards the front and anterior part of the eye, they are here finer, 
and their terminal portion, though not very distinct, is directed towards the 
undersurface of the head; the metasternum is short, but not so extremely 
short as it is in Aporolobus; the other characters seem to be much the same 
as in that genus. I refer two species to the genus. Of the three individuals 
I have seen, two show the minute palpi visible at the front of the mentum; I 
am not sure whether this may not be abnormal. 
Protolobus obscurus, n. sp.—Longulus, indumento grisescente vestitus, parcius 
albido-setosus ; prothorace elongato, subeylindrico. Long. 3 m.m. 
Antenne with the third joint only half as long as the second, club elongate 
oval, acuminate ; eyes widely separated, and very little visible from the front ; 
thorax elongate, subcylindric being nearly straight at the sides; elytra rather 
narrow and elongate. No sculpture can be seen owing to the dense exudation 
with which the surface is covered; but the setze project through this, and on 
the elytra form regular series. There is a slight appearance of nodulosity on 
the commencement of the declivity of the wing-cases. 
Otago. Professor Hutton. The second species of the genus is from the same source, and may per- 
haps be Trachyphlceus parvulus, Pasc. 
Caropres, Schénherr. (Irenimus, Pascoe). 
Although placed by Lacordaire in his division without ocular lobes, this 
genus really belongs to the other division. It is true the ocular lobes are but 
slightly defined, still they are clearly present, and the correlative position and 
form of the eyes leave no doubt as to the true place of Catoptes: when 
Lacordaire’s error is corrected and his description amended it will be seen that 
there is nothing to distinguish Pascoe’s genus Irenimus from Catoptes. Bra- 
chyolus punctipennis assigned by me provisionally to that genus approaches 
closeiy in the systematic characters to Catoptes, but has the ocular lobes well 
marked, and the emargination of the prosternum abrupt; also the buccal 
cavity is more open at the base. 
Catoptes brevicornis, n. sp. — Dense pallide griseo-squamosus, fusco-varie- 
