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Underside with tawny-grey scales and short setae; metasternum and 
basal segment of abdomen broadly depressed, 2nd finely transversely rugose, 
5th with subgranular sculpture. 
No other New Zealand weevil has such remarkable thoracic sculpture. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 6mm.; breadth, 23 mm. 
Western Springs, near Auckland. Found by Mr. A. E. Brookes, clinging 
to moss, on the 20th March, 1914. One only. 
3892. Inophloeus fuscatus sp. nov. Inophloews Pascoe, Man. N.Z. 
Coleopt., p. 439. 
Oblong, opaque, piceo-fuscous, antennae and tarsi fusco-r1ufous ; covered 
with depressed, light and dark fuscous squamae, the pale ones usually 
most numerous on the rostrum and frontal part of thorax; the setae on 
the elytra are decumbent and greyish, those on the thorax and rostrum 
are short, erect, and dark. ; 
Rostrum rather more than half the length of thorax, only slightly 
dilated in front, the median carina distinct, the lateral ones much less so. 
Head convex. Thorax hardly at all broader than long, a little wider before 
the middle than elsewhere, gradually narrowed behind ; the median channel 
distinct near the base, nearly obsolete in front, its sculpture consists of small 
obtuse tubercles or rugae behind, in many of these there is a minute seti- 
gerous puncture, the apical sculpture is finer. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra 
oblong, quite double the length of thorax, somewhat incurved and evidently 
broader than it is at the base, the sides only slightly curvedly narrowed there, 
rather gradually narrowed backwards, more strongly near the subvertical 
declivity, apices not definitely divergent ; dorsum nearly plane, distinctly 
seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices costiform, moderately nodose on top of the 
declivity and prolonged as a slight ridge nearly to the extremity; 5th 
rather less costiform, but with more elongate and horizontal posterior 
elevations, the 7th form obtuse lateral margins; the suture is somewhat 
elevated behind. 
Antennae finely setose; scape gradually incrassat> and attaining the 
back of the eye; 2nd joint of funiculus almost as long as the basal, 3rd 
longer than broad, joints 4—7 shorter, obconical ; club elongate-oval, quadri- 
articulate. 
Legs with coppery or greyish scales and grey setae; tibiae flexuous, 
posterior corbels with only a linear interval between the cilia. Prosternum 
deeply emarginate. 
This may be separated from species of about equal size by the absence 
of any sutural projection on the summit of the posterior declivity. 
$. Length (rostrum inclusive), 9mm. ; breadth, 34 mm. 
Skipper’s, east of northern part of Lake Wakatipu. Mr. M. O. Pasco, 
of Queenstown, kindly sent me a number of coleoptera that had been col- 
lected by Mr. E. Sainsbury. They were in a bottle with alcohol and had 
been shaken, so that they became entangled, and unfortunately, with the 
exception of the pair of weevils described above, the finer species were too 
much mutilated when got out of the bottle to be of much use. 
3893. Inophloeus collinus sp. nov. 
Elongate, nearly plane above, opaque ; nigrescent, antennae and tarsi 
rufo- piceous; densely covered with small, depressed, greyish - brown 
