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with yellow sete, on the disk there are about four series of 
coarse punctures, only two or three punctures in each row; 
the sete there are extremely small and scale-like; the coarser 
sete are somewhat concentrated on top of the posterior decli- 
vity, without, however, forming separated crests; immedi- 
ately below the summit the surface is bare or nearly so, and 
the sculpture is much finer and substriate; near the sides of 
the dorsum there are three or four rounded elevations. Legs 
stout, with depressed and erect sete ; along the hind or inner 
face of the middle and hind ¢/bi@ the sete form a distinct fringe, 
the external ciliz are interrupted near the middle, the inner 
extremity of the tibize is considerably produced. The tarsi 
are short, and their claws are much bent, so that they are not 
always easily seen. 
' The antenne bear fine sete; the second joint of the funi- 
culus is more slender but about as long as the first; 3 to 6 
are transverse; seventh large, gradually dilated, so as to 
become as broad as the base of the club. 
Underside piceous ; abdomen impunctate, basal segment a 
little depressed in the middle near the apex ; between the hind 
coxee there are two depressions, the second segment has a 
small setose elevation on the middle, the fifth is red and 
medially impressed. 
2. TLibie not prolonged inwardly at the extremity. 
Second abdominal segment not raised in the middle. 
This differs materially from No. 1512. It is smaller, the 
eyes are more convex, the antennez are rather shorter and 
stouter, the shoulders are narrower and are without setose 
elevations. 
The male is an interesting discovery, as its structure con- 
firms the genus as distinct from Phrynixus and its allies. 
6. Length (rostr. excl.) 13, breadth 2 line. 
Mount Pirongia. Seven examples, December 1892. 
Cuneopterus tenuicornis, sp. Nn. 
Body gradually and uninterruptedly widened from the 
front of the thorax to the truncate perpendicular apex of the 
hind body, the sides much inflexed; opaque, piceous, tarsi 
and antenne: infuscate red; it is covered with small, dull, 
pale brown squame. 
Rostrum as long as the thorax and about half the width ; 
apex nude, with a slight ridge along the middle, so that 
its sides appear depressed. Mandibles prominent. Thorax 
longer than broad, apex straight, base rounded, sides not 
uneven ; apparently impunctate, with a slight central ridge 
