450 COLEOPTERA. 
Underside thickly covered with tawny scales, but with dark ones at the 
sides of the intermediate segments. Metasternum short, broadly depressed 
in the middle. Second segment rather shorter than the basal, its frontal 
suture obtusely angulate in the middle. 
The coarsely seriate-punctate elytra, white scutellum, rather short and 
broad antennal club, and the almost pearl-like scales on the thorax, taken 
together, render it distinct. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 3} mm.; breadth, 2 mm. 
Scarcliff, near Mount Algidus. Found by Mr. T. Hal amongst decaying 
leaves; 20th September, 1913. Apparently rare. The lustrous scales are 
more easily seen when brushed with benzine. 
3937. Getacalles foveiceps sp. nov. 
Oblong, asperate, opaque; piceous, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi more 
or less fusco-rufous ; covered with overlapping, depressed, slightly varie- 
gated light-brown scales, the erect ones tawny and dark fuscous, the dark 
ones most conspicuous on the thorax and across the elytral declivity. 
Rostrum slightly shorter than thorax, thickly squamose nearly to the 
apex. Head apparently depressed, owing to the minute pair of interocular 
crests. Thorax a third broader than long, its frontal half abruptly con- 
tracted, with an indistinct longitudinal carina near its base; the hinder 
portion twice as broad, indistinctly bicristate on the middle in front. 
Scutellum greyish. Elytra oblong, twice the length of thorax, their thick 
porrect shoulders rather wider than it is at the base, considerably narrowed 
and vertical behind; the sutural punctation seriate, that near the sides 
coarser and very irregular; 3rd interstices tricristate, their posterior crests 
most prominent, 5th somewhat similarly crested, the terminal one placed 
lower down and usually larger than that of the 3rd, 2nd interstices slightly 
elevated at the base. 
Differentiated by the rather longer and narrower club than that of 
G. baccatellus, the absence of lustrous scales, the more vertical declivity, 
finer sutural punctation, more prominent crests, and interocular fovea. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 34 mm.; breadth, 2 mm. 
Clipping’s Bush, Kingston. Two, found on the 29th January, 1914, by 
Mr. T. Halli. 
3938. Crisius posticalis sp. nov. Crisius Pascoe, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 
p. 500. 
Piceous, rostrum and antennae rufescent, tarsi more infuscate ; covered 
with depressed, small, rotundate, principally ferruginous scales on the 
elytra, but with coarser suberect ones on the shoulders and uneven parts ; 
those on the thoracic dise elongate and depressed, but forming a pale streak 
near each side, the others form a pair of median and apical crests. 
Rostrum as long as thorax, a little dilated and ridged near the base, 
the apical half in the male very finely longitudinally rugose and with an 
interantennal groove, in the female bare near the apex only, which part 
is quite minutely and distantly punctate. Thorax rather broader than 
long, its frontal portion moderately contracted, sometimes, owing to the 
presence of coarse lateral squamae behind, appearing abruptly narrowed ; 
its rather fine punctation concealed. Scutellum pale and small. Elytra 
rather more than twice the length of thorax, widest just behind the oblique 
shoulders, at that point a third broader than the thoracic base, gradually 
