408 Capt. T. Broun on new 



coDsisting- of dark brown, fusco-testaceous, and grej depressed 

 scales ; there are also many erect setae, the finer ones are 

 fuscous, the coarser are nearly white and chiefly distributed 

 on the hind part of the body. 



Eostrum rather short and broad. Eyes longitudinally 

 oval, lateral. Antennce finely pubescent; scape flexuous, 

 subclavate for nearly half its length ; basal joint of the funi- 

 culus nearly as long as the next four taken together, slender 

 at the base, second about the length of the following two, 3 

 to 7 small, moniliform ; club oblong-oval, tri articulate. 

 Thorax cylindric, longer than broad, slightly constricted in 

 front of the middle. Elytra ovate, shoulders rounded and 

 narrowed and scarcely exceeding the thorax in width ; poste- 

 rior declivity rather abrupt ; they are punctate-striate ; there 

 are no nodosities ; the squamee have a tendency to form spots. 

 Legs squamose, stout. 



Underside with grey hair-like scales ; metasternum mode- 

 rately convex ; abdomen elongate, rather flat, fifth segment 

 broadly grooved longitudinally. 



This may be mistaken for P. demissa, Pascoe ; the narrow 

 shoulders and the shorter elytra, which are more abruptly 

 deflexed behind, are constant and reliable characters ; the 

 posterior femora are usually less angulate and dentiform 

 below. 



Length (rostr. inch) 1, breadth f line. 



West Plains, Invercargill. Found by Mr. A. Philpott. 



About ten years ago Mr. S. W. Fulton sent me a specimen 

 which he took off" a Veronica buxifolia, but it was so mutilated 

 that I did not think it advisable to describe it. It is subject 

 to variation ; the funiculus is not always piceous. 



Group CryptorliyncMdaB. 



Psepholax crassicornisy sp. n. 



Convex, rather broad, opaque; antennse and tarsi piceo- 

 rufous, the body darker; squamosity dense, pale ochry, 

 greyish, and fuscous, causing a slightly speckled appearance. 



Eostrum shorter than the thorax, its anterior portion 

 nearly double the breadth of the basal ; finely and closely 

 asperate behind, punctate in front, with a few yellow hairs 

 there. Antennw short and thick, bearing slender flavous 

 setge ; the scape barely touches the eye, it is very tliick ; 

 funiculus about a third longer than tlie scape ; second joint 

 about as long as the first, contracted at the base, joints 3 to 7 

 strongly transverse, the seventh broader than the preceding 



