452 COLEOPTERA. 
quite obsolete. X. nodifer (3456) has considerably longer legs. and a pair 
of distant, conspicuous nodosities on the hind part of the elytra. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 4 mm.; breadth, 13 mm. 
Clipping’s Bush, near Kingston. Two were found by Mr. T. Hall, 
amongst leaf-mould, on the 29th January, 1914. 
3940. Zeacalles speciosus sp. nov. Zeacalles Broun, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
ser. 6, vol. 12, p. 379. 
Ovate, opaque, elytra very convex and uneven, variegate; rostrum 
piceo-rufous, thorax and elytra piceous, legs fusco-rufous, antennae and 
tarsi fulvescent ; thorax covered with depressed nigrescent squamae, but 
with some elongate fusco-fulvous ones along the sides, and with short, erect, 
variegate aettarts ones; elytra almost “wholly covered with depressed 
fulvescent squamae and erect, variegate ones on the elevated parts, sides, 
and posterior declivity ; there are also a pair of oblique, intensely black 
crests at the base, and a few small dark spots behind. 
Rostrum nearly as long as thorax, with sublinear, rather fine sculpture, 
squamose at the base. Thorax without inequalities, apparently punctate, 
of the same length and breadth, gradually narrowed from its base to the 
rounded apex. Scutellar region slightly depressed and blackish. Elytra 
on an abruptly higher level than the thorax, hardly any broader than it is 
at the base, not twice its length, gently narrowed behind the middle, 
posterior declivity rather narrow, almost vertical, its height equalling the 
length of the dorsum ; they are seemingly striate-punctate ; 2nd interstices 
slightly elevated, with conspicuous crests on top of the declivity, 3rd more 
elevated at the base but not crested behind, sometimes with a small dark 
spot on the middle, the other interstices also uneven. 
Legs normal, fuseo-rufous, with elongate, flavescent, setiform squamae. 
Scape stout, a good deal thickened near the extremity, implanted just 
behind the middle ; 2nd joint of funiculus as long as the basal, 3rd and 4th 
shghtly longer than broad, the others moniliform, 7th quite transverse. 
Underside piceous, with flavescent setiform squamae. Pectoral canal 
profound, its vertical borders extending as far as the hind part of the inter- 
mediate coxae. Second ventral segment on nearly the same plane as the 
basal, only a third of its length, its frontal suture nearly straight, 3rd and 
4th together only half the length of the transversely quadrate 5th. 
The contrast in coloration, the abruptly elevated elytra, the prominent 
posterior crest on the 2nd interstices, and the uneven but not distinetly 
raised outer ones make it easily recognizable. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 2 mm. ; breadth, 1} mm. 
Moa Basin, Canterbury ; 20th aotaten 1913. 6 this remarkable little 
weevil two examples were taken by Mr. Hall from amongst decaying leaves 
on the ground ; one of them—mutilated, unfortunately—is mounted on its 
back. 
3941. Acalles sternalis sp. nov. Acalles Schoenherr, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 
p. 488. 
Convex, suboblong, the derm nitid, piceous; covered to a large extent 
with depressed, small, coppery or rufescent squamae; but short, erect, 
blackish ones occupy most of the anterior portion of thorax and the base 
of the elytra near the scutellum, they also form an interrupted band across 
