RHYPAROSOMIDAE. 435 
3915. Dermotrichus elegantalis sp. nov. 
Hlongate, gradually narrowed medially, slightly convex, opaque ; 
fuscous, legs, antennae, and rostrum fusco-rufous ; covered with depressed, 
short, tawny squamae, and bearing numerous Crests. 
Rostrum arched, slightly expanded in front in the male, subparallel 
in the female, as long as the thorax, nearly smooth and glabrous before the 
antennae, behind finely trisulcate and bearing 4 longitudinal series of small 
transverse squamae. Head short, narrowed anteriorly, with a pair of 
small crests. Eyes free from thorax, lateral, small, subrotundate, nearly 
flat. Thorax slightly longer than broad, a little wider near the middle 
than elsewhere, rather more curvedly narrowed in front than behind ; 
longitudinally depressed at the base, its moderately distant punctation 
concealed by the squamae; it has a pair of small apical crests, 3 before 
the middle still smaller, and similar scales form a streak along each side. 
Elytra elongate-oval, deflexed and a good deal narrowed behind, of the 
same width at the base as the thorax, quite double its length ; neither 
striae nor punctures are visible, the basal depression is rather broader than 
that of the thorax, and is hordered with concentrated squamae, these 
form another basal streak near each side and a pair behind ; on the summit 
of the declivity 4 distinct, but not very large, median crests are formed 
of longer woolly scales ; there are usually “2. smaller pairs lower down, 
and each side, near the top, is more or less distinctly tricristate. 
Scape moderately slender, clavate at the extremity, indistinetly 
squamose, inserted before the middle and attaining the middle of the eye. 
Second joint of funiculus as long as the Ist, joints 3—7 indistinetly separated, 
apparently subquadrate ; club large, subpyriform. 
Underside dull dark fuscous, sparingly and finely squamose. Meta- 
sternum short, subtruncate behind. Second ventral segment in the middle 
as long as the basal, its frontal suture oblique at the sides, angulate in the 
middle, and with a median fovea behind; 3rd and 4th very short, with 
straight deep sutures, 5th shorter than 2nd. 
The elongate form, remarkable vestiture, and the foveiform serobes, 
which, however, are prolonged to the eyes as squamose grooves, might 
warrant the exclusion of this rather elegant species from Der rmotrichus. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 54mm.; breadth, 12 mm. 
Moa Basin, Canterbury. Six Eales found by Mr. T. Hall amongst 
decaying leaves on the ground ; 20th October, 1913. 
3916. Phygothalpus philpotti sp. nov. Phygothalpus Broun, Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., vol. 45, p. 117. 
Suboblong-oval, with a slight silky gloss; nigrescent, antennae and 
tarsi piceous ; moderately aeenes math depressed ere fulvous setae 
intermingled, on the elytra, with a few grey patches, and with some short 
erect ones, those behind more conspicuous and longer. 
Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, its frontal half subovate and 
pterygiate, the apical portion shining, finely punctured, and bearing a few 
erect yellowish setae, coarsely and “irregularly punctate behind; with a 
slight median carina, the sublateral ones less distinct, all somewhat con- 
vergent towards the shallow interocular fovea, the interantennal fovea 
distinct. Eyes flat, lateral. Thorax scarcely any broader than long, a 
little wider before the middle than elsewhere, rather more narrowed in 
front than behind, with a broad discal channel w hich is even more expanded 
