Suarp—On New Zealand Coleoptera. 429 
front of the terminal truncation; the pseud-epipleuree are remarkable for their 
excessive size, and bear distant large, though rather obsolete, serial punctures. 
Greymouth. Mr. Helms has obtained two examples of this remarkable weevil; the first was found 
in a spider’s web some years ago, and the second under a piece of wood in a wet place. 
Dermorricuus (noy. gen. Rhyparisominorum). 
Corpus irregulariter setosum. Rostrum gracile, arcuatum prothorace paulo 
longius, scrobes laterales oculos attingentes. Oculi parvi subrotundati a thorace 
sat distantes ; antennze scapo apice clavato. 
This genus is closely allied to Phrynixus Pascoe, but possesses elongate though 
rather vague scrobes reaching to the small eyes. The antenne, too, are inserted 
evidently in front of the middle of the rostrum. The other characters, so far as I 
can see, are similar to those of Phrynixus. The tarsi are small, with the third 
joint short, not hbilobed but deeply depressed above for the insertion of the terminal 
jomt. The thorax is quite destitute of ocular lobes; the metasternum very short, 
the second ventral segment excessively large, the third and fourth extremely short. 
Dermotrichus mundulus, n. sp.—Piceus, haud nitidus, setulositate crispata 
irregulariter vestitus. Long. 33 m.m. (Plate xim., fig. 15.) 
Rostrum slightly broader in front of the antennz, and there almost smooth and 
shining, behind sulcate and minutely setulose, with two minute tufts between the 
eyes; antennz rather short, the scape gently clavate at the apex; second joint 
longer and thicker than the third, the funiculus only indistinctly articulated ; the 
club elongate, obtuse, its first jomt extremely long, the others quite short. Thorax 
slightly longer than broad, its greatest width in the middle, gently and equally 
narrowed to the front and the base, its surface not convex, but somewhat uneven 
and bearing ochraceous (or fuscous) thick setae, which are here and there more 
condensed and elevated. Elytra of peculiar form, being much narrowed to the 
base, which is of the same width as the thorax, becoming broader behind in a long 
slope, covered with angulate transverse fascize of condensed sete, two of these, 
one on the middle and one behind it, being very distinct ; scutellum invisible ; legs 
only feebly setose. 
Greymouth. Helms, No. 316. The three examples exhibit a good deal of difference in the clothing 
of the wing-cases, which may be due partly to variation, partly to abrasion. 
STEPHANORHYNCHUS. 
Stephanorhynchus aper, n. sp.—S. curvipedi similis sed latior; rugosus, indu- 
mento plus minusve variegato vestitus, elytris dorso sellato-tuberculato. Long. 3 
to 65 m.m. 
Antenne with rather elongate slender club, the second joint of which is 
subquadrate, and about as long as the first; rostrum keeled along the middle, a 
