OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 417 
Rostrum half the length of thorax, thick, slightly narrowed and finely 
setose at the apex, with an indistinct median carina. Thorax very slightly 
broader than long, obtusely rounded at or just before the middle, slightly 
narrowed behind; with coarse, short, irregular rugae, and a somewhat 
interrupted but not deep central channel, and an oblique frontal impression 
near each side. Elytra oblong, twice the length of thorax, incurved and a 
little broader than it is at the base, so that the shoulders, though obtuse, 
seem slightly porrect, a good deal narrowed and vertical behind; they are 
coarsely seriate-punctate; 3rd interstices shghtly elevated along the middle, 
evidently incrassate and raised at the base and terminating as distinct 
nodosities on the summit of the dechivity ; the 5th simple at the base, the 
posterior nodosities more horizontal than those of the 5rd and not extending 
as far back; the suture slightly oblique and thickened at the base and 
somewhat elevated behind as far as the middle of the declivity. 
Scape straight, gradually incrassate; basal joint of funiculus as long 
as the next, 3rd slightly longer than broad, jomts 4-7 moniliform, club 
elongate-oval. Posterior corbels thickly cilate but not cavernous. 
With the exception of the less-developed ocular lobes, this species 
corresponds with the generic diagnosis; the body, however, is unusually 
elongate. In the male, 64mm. by 24mm., the thorax is less rounded, 
almost straight behind, with a more distinct mesial channel. Fifth ventral 
segment much more finely setose than the others. 
2. Length (rostrum inclusive), 7mm.; breadth, 2? mm. 
Mount Dick; 17th March, 1914. Mr. T. Hall. One of each sex, found 
in leaf-mcould. 
3890. Brachyolus terricola sp. nov. 
Opaque, piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; densely covered with 
depressed greyish and tawny squamae above, the sides of elytra with dark 
fuscous ones ; the short, erect setae on the thorax and sides of elytra usually 
fuscous, those on the raised elytral interstices are testaceous or greyish. 
Rostrum rather shorter than thorax, distinctly medially carinate. 
Thorax nearly a third broader than long, a little wider before the middle 
than elsewhere; slightly transversely impressed near each side in front, 
longitudinally at the middle of the base, the dise without definite rugae or 
punctation. Elytra more than double the length of thorax, with oblique 
shoulders, so that the base is hardly wider than that of the thorax; not 
asperate, their serial punctures rather shallow near the suture, coarser 
towards the sides; 3rd interstices somewhat elevated and terminating as 
prominent nodosities on top of the declivity, usually infuscate there, and 
below that point distinctly ridged half-way towards the shghtly dehiscent 
apices, the 5th with smaller terminal nodosities. 
Scape with infuscate or greyish setae; 2nd joimt of funiculus as long 
as the basal, 3rd and 4th longer than the following ones, 7th subtriangular, 
hardly longer than broad ; club elongate. 
This does not agree with any of Sharpe’s descriptions of 2116 to 2120 
inclusive. In B. sylvatica (3127) the rostral carina is quite fine; it differs 
in other details as well. B. fuscipictus (3597) may be distinguished by its 
thoracic carina. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 64 mm.; breadth, 2% mm. 
Moa Basin. Another of Mr. T. Hall’s novelties; 20th October, 1913. 
