Species of New-Zealand Culeoptera. 57 



Stephanorhynchus brevipenms. 



S. squamulis filiformibus brevibus fere omnino tectus ; rostro capita 

 paulo longiore, antice gibboso, fronte super oculos leviter bituber- 

 culata, tuberculis baud setosis ; occipite longitudiualiter excavato ; 

 clava antennarum elongato-ovata, arete articuLita ; protborace 

 capite minore, coiiico, pone apicem strangulate ; elytris brevibus, 

 leviter striatis, singulis quadrituberculatis,tuberculo juxta suturam 

 pone medium majore," vel cristam triangularem formante, apicibus 

 rotundatis ; tibiis fulvis, posticis valde curvatis. Long. 24 lin. 



Hab. Christchurch. 



Well differentiatedj inter alia, Ly its short elytra, rounded 

 at the apices. 



Hoplocneme punctatissima. 



H. nigra, vel purpureo-nigra, vix nitida, femoribus apice, tibiis tar- 

 sisque subferrugineis, supra confertim punctata ; capite inter 

 oculos baud excavato, coUo valde constricto ; clava antennarum 

 majuscula ; protborace subcylindrico, angulis anticis rotundatis ;' 

 scutello pai-vo ; elytris sat ampliatis, baud striatis. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. Otago. 



Smaller than H. Hooheri, Wh., from which it may be at 

 once known by the irregularly crowded punctures on the elytra 

 without any trace of stria?, instead of being in regular lines. 

 Mr. White refers Hoplocneme to the neighbourhood of Orches- 

 tes, with which it has nothing to do ; it is one of the Erirhi- 

 ninfe, and allied to the same writer's Stephanorhynchus. The 

 funicle in Hoplocneme is six-jointed, and the club is four- 

 jointed. 



Pactola. 



Rostrum capite brevius, cylindricum ; scrobes obHquse, infra oculo3 

 desinentes. _4H<(?HHce subterminales ; scapus elongatus, pone ocu- 

 los superans ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo majusculo, 

 quatuor ultiniis transversis ; clava magna, ovata, concreta. OcuU 

 prominuli, laterales, rotiiudati, grosse granulati. Proihorax an- 

 gustus. Elytra ampliata, supra irregularia, humeris callosis. 

 Pedes quatuor anteriores mediocres, femoribus simplicibus, tibiis 

 subrectis ; pedes posteriores vh^otcs,, femoribus fortiter clavatis, 

 infra dente magno armatis, tibiis arcuatis, baud compressis, om- 

 nibus apice muticis ; tarsis articulo tertio late bilobo ; unguiculi 

 subdentati ; coxce antieae coutiguae, intermediae et posticae late dis- 

 tantes. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus valde ampliatis. 



It is with some doubt tliat I refer this genus to the Erirhi- 

 ninte. In the form of the hind legs it approaches the two 

 preceding genera ; but the head, not constricted behhid to 



