434 COLEOPTERA 
shoulders prominent, the interstices scarcely differ from one another, the 
apices are less prolonged, but instead of being straight or slightly ineurved 
at the extremity they are obviously divergent. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 7 mm. ; breadth, nearly 2} mm. 
Hollyford: 18th February, 1914. Found at night on a mossy tree by 
Mr. T. Hall, whose name has been given to it. 
3914. Dermotrichus multicristatus sp. nov. Dermotrichus Sharp, Man. 
N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1205. 
Opaque, fusco-piceous, rostrum, antennae, and legs fusco-rufous ; 
irregularly clothed with depressed, slender, and longer, suberect flavescent 
squamae. 
Rostrum strongly arched, nearly as long as thorax, slightly dilated and 
indistinctly punctured before the middle, convex or obtusely carinate 
behind, with some small squamae. Eyes small, with distinct facets, sub- 
rotundate, less distant from the thorax than from each other. Head short, 
narrowed anteriorly, minutely bicristate. Thorax not longer than broad, 
widest near the middle, about equally narrowed before and behind, base 
truncate, medially depressed there, with a few fine punctures in front; the 
scales so concentrated as to form a pair of small apical crests, an elongate 
central one, and a shorter pair at each side of it. Scutellum invisible. 
Elytra oviform, nearly double the width of thorax in the middle, twice its 
length, very slightly broader than it is at the base, medially depressed 
there, deflexed, but not abruptly so, behind; their punctate striae are 
rendered indistinct by the squamae, which are ‘concentrated in lines along 
the middle, but form elongate conspicuous crests inside the shoulders, on 
top of the declivity there is a transverse series of about 8 unequal crests ; 
just below these, at each side, there is a larger one ; these are the principal 
ones, but there are others near each side and on the posterior declivity. 
Legs with depressed greyish scales and a few setae ; front tibiae nearly 
straight, the others slightly flexuous and distinctly mucronate. 
Scape rather slender, flexuous, moderately clavate, attaining the front 
or centre of the eye, with a few fine elongate decumbent squamae ; basal 
joint of funiculus thicker but scarcely longer than the next, joints 3-6 
transversely quadrate, 7th larger ; club densely pubescent, rather large, 
subpyriform, apical articulations indistinct. 
Underside dull fuscous, finely and sparingly squamose. Prosternum 
emarginate in front. Metasternum truncate in front, very short, hardly 
longer than the coxae. Second ventral segment larger than the Ist, its 
frontal suture oblique towards the sides and subangulate in the middle, 
3rd and 4th together evidently shorter than 5th, which is slightly rufescent, 
with an obtuse elevation each side of the middle. 
Fem.—Rostrum slightly longer than thorax. 
The squamose vestiture should perhaps exclude this species from 
Dermotrichus ; the typical species, D. mundulus (2133), I have not seen. 
The legs and antennae, I presume, are piceous, the elytra seem to be with- 
out punctation or striae ; if measures 3 mm. in length—-whether the rostrum 
is included or not I cannot state. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 4mm.; breadth, 1? mm. 
Mount Earnslaw and Hollyford. About two dozen specimens, from 
Mr. T. Hall. 
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