OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 409 
3876. Platyomida fuscella sp. nov. 
Stout, opaque, piceous, antennae piceo-rufous; covered with tawny 
depressed and a few setiform squamae. 
Rostrum a little expanded anteriorly, a third shorter than thorax. with 
a median ridge which does not extend more than half-way towards the 
front and ends in an elongate interocular impression, the apex finely rugose- 
punctate. Thorax a little dilated before the middle, more narrowed in 
front than behind, without perceptible rugae or punctures; discal channel 
medially interrupted, rather broader and deeper in front than behind ; its 
length rather less than the breadth. Elytra nearly thrice the length of 
thorax, almost double its width in the middle, with curvedly narrowed 
shoulders, so that the true base hardly exceeds that of the thorax, their 
sides slightly uneven, gently narrowed behind the middle, more abruptly 
at the declivity, which is vertical ; each elytron has 6 series of dorsal, 
moderate punctures ; 3rd interstices slightly porrect and obtusely elevated 
at the base, indistinctly raised behind the middle, terminating as large 
horizontal nodosities on top of the declivity; 5th moderately binodose 
behind the middle, terminal nodosities less prominent than those of the 
3rd and directed backwards; the declivity with 2 pairs of small nodosities, 
the upper larger and nearer to each other than the lower. 
Antennae finely setose, 6th and 7th joints of funiculus obconical, hardly 
longer than broad, shorter than those of P. dorsalis. Tibiae denticulate 
inwardly. 
Underside nigrescent, with brassy scales and setae. Fifth ventral seg- 
ment closely and rugosely punctured, much longer than 35rd and 4th, its 
apex broadly rounded. 
The shorter rostrum, its broad abbreviated ridge, the distinct inter- 
ocular impression, rounded humeral angles, less flattened dorsum, &c., 
differentiate it. 
2. Length (rostrum inclusive), 11 mm.; breadth, 453 mm. 
Routeburn. Unique. Found by Mr. " Hall on the 13th February, 1914. 
3877. Platyomida rectirostris sp. nov. 
Opaque, piceous, antennae and tarsi rufo-piceous ; densely covered with 
small, depressed, obscure coppery, and more setiform paler squamae. 
Rostrum parallel, almost as long as thorax, with a fine but distinct 
median carina. Thorax cylindric, “apparently elongate, really of equal 
length and breadth, only slightly dilated before the middle; dise without 
rugae or tubercles, its central channel broad, rather deep, and almost unin- 
terrupted from base to apex, with obtusely raised borders, near each side 
behind the middle there is a transverse impression, no punctation is visible. 
Scutellum small. Elytra oblong-oval, their sides somewhat uneven, gradu- 
ally narrowed towards the base, which is a little and irregularly incurved 
and but little broader than that of the thorax; they are more than double 
its length, narrowed and vertical behind; they are moderately distinctly 
and somewhat irregularly seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices elevated at the 
base, trinodose along the middle, and ending in large, nearly horizontal 
protuberances on top of the posterior declivity ; 5th binodose behind the 
middle, the terminal nodosity rather smaller than that of the 3rd and 
extending obliquely outwards; declivity with a pair of smaller nodosities 
near the summit, and another pair near the extremity. 
Antennae similar to those of P. dorsalis ; legs rather long and slender. 
