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3912. Clypeorhynchus nitidellus sp. nov. 
Convex, slightly nitid; rufo-castaneous, middle of thorax and elytra 
infuscate; irregularly and sparingly clothed with short, depressed, 
fulvescent setae, and some erect, elongate, darker ones. 
Rostrum stout, rather shorter than thorax, indistinctly sculptured, 
feebly bicarinate, dark red and almost smooth in front. Eyes subdepressed, 
rather large, subrotundate, with an intervening impression. Thorax very 
little longer than broad, slightly wider before the middle than behind, 
subeonstricted in front; with a broad but not deep frontal impression 
which becomes quite narrow behind; its punctation moderate, shallow 
and slightly rugose, with some longitudinal rugae in front, and with a 
moderate nodiform elevation near the middle of each side; the setae are 
most conspicuous at the apex, on the nodosities, and along a line towards 
each shoulder. Elytra oblong-oval, with slightly oblique shoulders, scarcely 
at all broader at the base than the thorax, almost thrice its length; they 
are evidently and nearly quite regularly punctate-striate from base to apex ; 
with slightly convex, nearly smooth interstices, the 2nd and 4th are a little 
elevated and thickly setose at the base, which is a little depressed at the 
suture ; the setae do not form. definite patches. 
Scape flexuous, rather slender, gradually imerassate, with a few slender 
erect setae ; basal joimt of the funicle distinctly flexuous and rather longer 
than the next, 3rd and 4th shorter than 2nd yet elongate, the following ones 
longer than broad; club elongate-oval. Legs normal, tibiae moderately 
flexuous. 
The somewhat shining surface, the oviform, obviously punctate-striate 
elytra, the shallow thoracic channel and punctation, combined with the 
perfectly natural and equally flexuous basal articulation of each antenna, 
are sufficient for immediate recognition. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 8 mm. ; breadth, fully 2} mm. 
Routeburn, north of Lake Wakatipu. Unique. Taken off trees along 
with other Coleoptera during the night of the 16th February, 1914, by 
Mr. T. Hall. 
3913. Clypeorhynchus halli sp. nov. 
Subelongate-oval, subopaque ; castaneo-fuscous, antennae and tarsi rufo- 
castaneous, rostrum nigrescent ; sparingly clothed with flavescent, depressed, 
very short squamiform setae, and with longer, coarser, and sometimes 
suberect ones near the sides and behind. 
Rostrum almost smooth and glabrous in front, finely tricarinate behind, 
the central carina, however, hardly extends forwards as far as the middle ; 
there is no perceptible punctation. Head simple, not foveate. Thorax 
hardly longer than broad, of the usual shape, distinctly, rather closely and 
coarsely punctured, with narrow smooth intervals, dorsal channel shallow 
and somewhat medially interrupted. Scutellum small. Elytra oblong- 
oval, incurved at the base so that the shoulders appear slightly porrect ; 
they are wider than the thorax but hardly thrice its length, with moderately 
prolonged, dentiform, quite divergent apices; their striae are subcrenate- 
punctate and deeper at the base than behind; interstices broad, with 
minute subgranular sculpture. 
Somewhat similar to C. setosus, darker, joints 5-7 of the funiculus equally 
small and beadlike, rostral carinae different, thorax more deeply and 
distinctly punctate; the elytra shorter, more incurved at the base, their 
