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Rostrum apparently smooth. Thorax rounded and widest near the 
middle, base submarginate; disc with minute dense sculpture and many 
coarse but not deep punctures. Elytra widest behind the middle, each 
with four broad, deep, impunctate dorsal striae, the suture and interstices 
cariniform and touching the slightly raised basal margin. 
Funiculus and club with pale pubescence, the legs with a few short hairs. 
Basal ventral segment with minute dense sculpture and a few coarse 
shallow punctures. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 1} mm.; breadth, 3} mm. 
Hollyford ; 18th February, 1914. Another of Mr. T. Hall’s numerous 
discoveries amongst decaying leaves. Unfortunately, it is unique. 
3909. Clypeorhynchus clarulus sp. nov. Clypeorhynchus Sharp, Man. N.Z. 
Coleopt., p. 1210. 
Subopaque, castaneo-rufous, sides of thorax and elytra fuscous ; 
irregularly clothed, chiefly with decumbent, slender and elongate, rather 
bright fulvescent squamae. 
Rostrum stout, almost equalling thorax in length, its frontal half some- 
what expanded, apex nearly nude and quite red. Head immersed up to 
the eyes, with a small fovea between them. Thorax of equal length and 
breadth, only shghtly dilated before the middle, nearly straight behind ; 
the surface a little uneven, irregularly and moderately coarsely punctured, 
with a pair of moderate nodosities, bearing suberect scales, before the 
middle, the central channel deeper in front than behind. Klytra double 
the length of thorax, their shoulders obliquely curved so that the base is 
hardly broader than that of the thorax, they are a good deal narrowed 
and deflexed behind ; on each elytron there are 4 dorsal series of granules 
which in some aspects give the elytra a somewhat punctate-striate 
appearance ; the sutural region is depressed at the base, the 2nd and 4th 
interstices are a little elevated there; the scales are most apparent on the 
interstices but become coarser, suberect and sometimes greyish behind 
Legs elongate, femora moderately clavate; tibiae flexuous and acumi- 
nate, tarsi rather short. 
Scape flexuous, attaining the thoracic apex, clavate at the extremity 
and bearing many elongate squamae; basal joint of funiculus not quite 
half the length of the scape nor double the length of the elongate 2nd, the 
5rd and 4th, sometimes the 5th, longer than broad, 6th and 7th submonili- 
form ; club ovate, not elongate, SNe 
Of about the same size as C. cordipennis (2394), much brighter, frontal 
suture of rostrum less distinct, scape more clavate, &c. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 5-54 mm.; breadth, nearly 2mm. 
Mount Dick. Two found amongst decaying vegetable matter by 
Mr. T. Hall, at a height of 1,100 ft., on the 10th March, 1914. 
3910. Clypeorhynchus merus sp. nov. 
Opaque, fuscous; base of femora, tibiae, tarsi, funiculus, and club 
chestnut-red ; squamosity slender, decumbent, irregularly distributed, 
subseriate on the hind-body, usually tawny-grey, rarely fulvescent. 
Rostrum rather shorter than thorax, subcarinate along the middle, 
rufescent and nearly nude in front. Thorax subcylindric, a little narrowed 
anteriorly, nearly straight behind; median channel shallow, antero-lateral 
