CRYPTORHYNCHIDAE. 453 
the top of the hind declivity, a pair of spots lower down, 4 short tufts along 
each side, and a few less distinct spots on the dorsum ; antennae and tarsi 
fusco-testaceous. 
Rostrum dark rufous, subparallel, slightly arched, stout, of about the 
same length as thorax ; with an indistinct median carina, it is longitudinally 
rugose-punctate, more finely punctate near the apex. Thorax more or 
less abruptly contracted in front, with a pair of small apical crests, it 1s 
a fifth broader than long; the larger basal portion is closely and coarsely 
punctured, depressed along the middle, and has a pair of short median 
crests in front. Scutellum invisible, its region depressed. Elytra suboblong, 
on a higher plane than the thorax, more than twice its length, hardly any 
broader than it is at the base, with somewhat oblique shoulders, moderately 
narrowed but only subvertical behind ; they are moderately coarsely sub- 
striate-punctate with slightly uneven interstices. 
Legs stout yet elongate, squamose, tibiae nearly straight, tarsi rather 
narrow. Scape inserted at or just before the middle, flexuous, gradually 
inerassate, attaining the front of the eye; 2nd joint of funiculus as long as 
the Ist, 3rd shghtly longer than 4th or 5th, the terminal broader than the 
transverse 6th ; club ovate, apparently triarticulate, basal joint largest. 
Underside piceous, with short tawny scales, closely punctured. The 
elevated borders of the rostral canal extend to the middle of intermediate 
coxae. Second ventral segment quite half the length of the flat basal, some- 
times without any definite suture, 5th as long as 3rd and 4th combined, 
truncate at apex. Metasternum deeply concave in the middle. 
Of about the same size as A. australis (2180), but differing greatly in 
coloration, sculpture, and vestiture, and more especially in sternal structure. 
Length (rostrum exclusive), 34-4 mm.; breadth, 2-24 mm. 
Mount Alfred, Ben Lomond, and Mount Earnslaw, during February and 
March, 1914, at elevations varying from 2,000 ft. to 4,000 ft. Found by 
Mr. T. Hall amongst dead leaves on the ground. The description has been 
derived from a clean, perfectly fresh example; most of the others are 
smeared with sappy matter, and therefore appear much less brightly 
coloured and indistinctly marked, but the sternal structure is constant. 
3942. Acalles nodigerus sp. nov. 
Convex, rufo-piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous; covered with 
small, fulvescent, depressed, and suberect but not elongate squamae on 
the elevated parts. 
Rostrum about as long as thorax, stout, somewhat medially narrowed, 
rufescent, bare and finely punctate near the extremity. Head impressed 
between the eyes. Thorax a third broader than long, somewhat abruptly 
contracted in front, bicristate there; the larger basal portion closely but 
not coarsely punctured, depressed and with an indistinct carina along the 
middle, there is a nodosity at each side, and on the front a median pair of 
squamose ones. LElytra subcordate, convex, with suboblique squamose 
shoulders, slightly broader at the base than the thorax, more than twice 
its length, rather gradually narrowed and subvertical behind, their sides 
uneven ; the dorsum with series of coarse, rather close, subquadrate punc- 
tures, these become finer behind ; 3rd interstices with 4 unequal, squamose 
nodosities, the 5th less distinctly trinodose. Femora grooved, the anterior 
angulate below. 
