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the length of the second, the suture between these two arcuate ; 
third and fourth moderately short, with deep sutures. 
Scrobes quite open above, they extend from the apex and 
are directed obliquely downwards, but in front of the eyes, 
from the upper to the lower margin, there is a broad depres- 
sion. Posterior corbels not cavernous. There is just the 
merest trace of ocular lobes. Eyes moderately distant from 
the thorax, nearly round, large, and very convex ; this last 
character will serve to distinguish this from all the allied 
co) 
species; No. 2149 is, however, the nearest. 
The scape attains the hind margin of the eye. The man- 
dibular scar is indistinct, but I think the genus should be 
placed in the Otiorhynchide, as in a broken specimen of 
another species the scar, though shallow, can be seen. 
In No. 1288 the corbels of the posterior tibie are narrowly 
cavernous. 
Length (rostr. incl.) 23, breadth nearly 14 lines. 
Mount Pirongia. One, December 1892. 
All the species unfortunately are exceedingly rare. 
Ehynchogonus germanus, sp. 1. 
Robust, piceous, a little shining, clothed with small greyish 
depressed scales and short semierect setee. 
Rostrum short and broad, with a central carina; the finely 
punctate glabrous apical portion distinctly limited by oblique 
sutures. Hyes large, broadly longitudinally oval, very con- 
vex and prominent. Thorax broader than long, more nar- 
rowed, but not abruptly, in front than behind, its sides mode- 
rately rounded ; disk convex, with a slightly raised, smooth, 
central, linear space ; it is slightly rugose, the sculpture seems 
{o consist of small granules with a minute puncture in each; 
from these the sete arise.  Scutellum invisible. Hlytra 
ample, suboblong, evidently broader than the thorax; the 
shoulders, however, are much rounded, the sides are sub- 
parallel, behind they are narrowed and declivous; on each 
elytron there are six dorsal series of rather shallow sub- 
quadrate punctures, these almost form striz; the interstices 
are not narrow and they are a little elevated, the third and 
fifth are rather more raised than the others behind, but are 
not distinctly nodose. Legs stout, tibie a little flexuous, the 
inner extremity somewhat angulate or prolonged ; tarsi setose, 
their third joint bilobed. Antenne elongate, with fine grey 
setee ; second joint of the funiculus obviously longer than the 
first, both elongate, joints 3 to 7 nearly equal, each longer 
than broad ; club elongate-oval, three-jointed. 
