Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 55 



Lyperohius Huttoni. 



L. ovalis, niger, nitidus ; capite autice convexo ; rostro teuuiter 

 puuctato, basi fovea profuuda impresso ; oculis valde angustia ; 

 antennis piceis ; scapo apice sensim inerassato ; fuuiculo articulis 

 duobiis basalibus aequalibus, reliquis submouiliformibus ; clava 

 breviter ovata, tomentosa ; prothorace iiioequaliter convexo, leviter 

 vage punctato ; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis approximatis, 

 interstitiis plauatis, tertio qnintoque multo latioribus ; corpora 

 iijfra uitido, subtiliter punctato ; pedibus tenuiter vage setulosis. 

 Long. 9-11 lin. 



Hab. Tarndale. 



P^DAIJETUS. 

 Caput parvum ; rostrum modice elongatum, apicem versus crassius ; 

 scrobes prtemedianae, obliqufe, ante medium oculorum desinentes. 

 Oc2(li ovales, grosse granulati. iScajius oculum vix attingens ; fu- 

 tiiculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo niagno, caeteris transversis. 

 Frothoixix amplus, utrinque rotundatus, basi leviter bisinuatus. 

 ScuteUum invisum. Elytra bi'eviter cylindrica, basi prothoracis 

 latiora. Coxte anticae haud contignae ; femora mutica ; tihioe 

 cylindricae, unco valido armatae ; tarsi breves ; unguicuU liberi. 

 Fropectus haud excavatum. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus 

 ampliatis. 



1 can only compare this genus to the Australian Psaldus, 

 from which it is at once differentiated, inter alia, by its normal 

 scrobes and propectus (the latter without the slightest trace of 

 a canal). Syagrius has a different rostrum and the tibise not 

 armed with a hook. 



Piedaretiis hispidus. 



P. breviter cylindrieus, fuscus, squamulis erectis piliformibus, rostro 

 incluso, vestitus ; antennis nitide subferrugineis, clava ovata ; 

 prothorace latitudine longitudini aequali, lateribus valde rotundatis, 

 supra confertim fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striatis, striis 

 punctis remotis impressis ; corpore infra fortiter punctato ; tarsis 

 fulvis. Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Auckland. 



Erirhinus acalj/ptoides. 

 E. ovatus, fulvus, parce sericeo-pilosus, prothorace fusco ; rostro 

 gracili, prothoraci longitudine aequali, modice arcuato,basi striato ; 

 antennis fere in medio rostri insertis, clava majuscula, fusca ; 

 prothorace transverso, utrinque valde rotundato, sat vage punc- 

 tato ; scutello rotundato ; elytris prothorace multo latioribus, 

 striato-punctatis, apice rotundatis ; pedibus fulvis; corpore infra 

 infuscato. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. Otago. 



I can see nothing to differentiate this pretty little species 

 generically from Erirhinus. It is very similar in appearance 

 to our Acalijptus Garpiid. 



