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closely striate-punctate, interstices rather narrow, a pair on each elytron 
usually elevated at the base, the scutellar region depressed. 
Legs elongate, tibiae simple, indistinctly mucronate. 
Underside castaneous, with many fine yellow setae.  Prosternum 
elongate, moderately coarsely but not deeply punctured, its coxae con- 
tiguous. Metasternum moderately short, broadly impressed. Abdomen 
very elongate, basal segment broadly depressed in the middle, nearly double 
the length of the 2nd, their suture sinuate; 35rd and 4th together longer 
than 2nd, with deep sutures; 5th subquadrate, coarsely punctate, broadly 
rounded and minutely ciliate behind ; 6th semicircular, concave at the base, 
finely punctate behind. 
Easily separable from N. sulctrostris by the elongate contour, sub- 
acuminate hind-body; unimpressed thorax, but with more numerous 
punctures, different ventral segments, &c. 
g. Length (rostrum inclusive), 44 mm.; breadth. 14mm. 
Gordon’s Knob, near Nelson. Half a dozen examples taken by My. T. 
Hall from fallen leaves, on or about the 15th November, 1914. In its 
natural condition it is smeared with sappy matter, so that the rostral groove 
and elytral sculpture are partly hidden. 
Inososgenes gen. Nov. 
Body elongate, subparallel, shghtly convex. Head immersed up to the 
small transverse eyes. Rostrum stout, slightly shorter than thorax, slightly 
dilated in front, parallel behind. Scrobes subapical, quite visible and 
open above, distinctly prolonged to the eyes. Scape inserted near the 
apex, attaining the eye, stout, straight, gradually incrassate. Funiculus 
7-articulate, basal joint longer and thicker than the next, joints 3-7 trans- 
versal ; club short, ovate. Thorax without ocular lobes, truncate at apex, 
nearly so at the base, ovifiorm. Scutellum absent. Elytra oblong, incurved 
and rather broader than thorax at the base, not vertical behind. 
Legs moderately stout and elongate; femora unarmed, subclavate at 
the middle; tibiae slightly flexuous, uncinate; tarsi finely setose under- 
neath, penultimate joint excavate above but not lobate. 
Prosternum elongate, very deeply emarginate in front, broadly impressed 
along the middle, the coxae large, prominent, contiguous, and situated 
near the base. Intermediate coxae moderately, the posterior widely, 
separated, all about equidistant from front to rear. Metasternum very 
short. Basal ventral segment truncate between the coxae, very large, 
2nd rather shorter, on a slightly higher level, the frontal suture indefinite, 
apparently oblique at the sides, 3rd and 4th moderately well developed, 
with straight sutures and, together, shorter than the 5th. Epipleurae 
linear. 
Nearly related to the minute Sosgenes carinatus (2556), im which, how- 
ever, the rostrum is not in the least dilated anteriorly, its apex is smooth, 
shining, and abruptly marked off behind like Clypeorhynchus, the scrobes 
are not open above, and the deep prosternal depression has almost sharply 
raised lateral borders. 
3921. Inososgenes longiventris sp. nov. 
Opaque, nigro-piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous; sparingly 
clothed with subdecumbent tawny setae, those on the legs erect. 
