Coleoptera from New Zealand. 411 



Length (rostr. excl.) 2|-, breadth 1^ line. 



Mount Pirongia. 



This is another of the rare ground-weevils of New Zealand. 



SCHYLUS, gen. nov. 



Body convex, suboviform, narrowed towards both extre- 

 mities, without superficial inequalities, clothed with hair-like 

 scales and erect sets. Rostrum as long as the thorax, stout, 

 hardly at all arched, subparallel. Scrohes deep, lateral, 

 extending from near the apex to the ejes. Antennce inserted 

 near the apex. Scape slender, gradually clavate apically ; it 

 attains the front of the eye. Funiculus rather longer than 

 the scape; the basal two joints elongate and about equal; 

 joints 3 to 7 decrease. Club ovate, 4-articulate. Ei/es just 

 uncovered, flat, coarsely facetted, longer than broad, yet 

 nearly rotundate. Thorax truncate at base, gradually 

 narrowed anteriorly, its apical portion projecting over the 

 head. Scutellum absent. Elytra closely applied to the thorax, 

 hardly any wider at the base than that is, narrowed and nearly 

 vertical behind. Legs long and thick. Femora elongate, 

 not clavate, grooved below, the anterior toothed or angulate 

 near the middle. Tibioi rather short, the front pair dis- 

 tinctly, the others indistinctly, mucronate. Tarsi finely 

 pilose, rather narrow, their penultimate joint broadly lobate. 



Pectoral canal deep, extending to the front of the middle 

 coxa3, limited by the raised borders of the mesosternuin ; 

 these borders touch the front cox^e. Metasternum very short. 

 Coxce widely separated. Abdomen with the frontal suture 

 broadly rounded and very indistinct; the basal segment 

 nearly as long as the following three ; second short, but little 

 longer than the third, its basal suture indistinct ; third and 

 fourth short, with deep sutures. Epipleurce extremely 

 narrow. 



The apex of the rostrum is almost truncate above and 

 below, and the almost concealed mandibles close the aperture. 

 The mentum seems elongate. The jyalpi are invisible. The 

 ocular lobes are represented by the rounded angles between 

 the rostral canal and the sides of the thorax. 



In Cyclacalles, the type of which is No. 883, all the femora 

 are angulate and dentate, the antennai are inserted before the 

 middle of the rostrum instead of near its apex, the meta- 

 sternum, though short, is rather longer, and there is a well- 

 marked suture between it and the first ventral segment ; the 

 abdomen is shorter, the basal segment notably so, the tibiai 

 have more distinct spurs, and the body is shorter and more 

 rotundate. 



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