646 COLEOPTERA. 



funiculus with slender grey setae, basal joint very stout, the next obconical 

 but only half as large, joints 3-7 strongly transverse ; club short and 

 broad, finely pubescent, indistinctly articulate. 



Pascoe's Tmchyphloeus porcnlus (753), judging by its description, must 

 have very different vestiture. His T. irritus (754), the type of Aporolobus, 

 is stated to be of the " same size and shape but with a remarkably stout 

 scape " ; in A. scapalis the scape is even thicker than that of 754, and 

 the clothing is entirely different ; the exposure of the pygidium is probably 

 abnormal. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 4 mm. ; breadth, Ih mm. 



Glenhope. One from Mr. T. Hall ; 20th August, 1915. 



Group Rhyparosomidae. 

 Phrynixus Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 432. 

 4079. Phrynixus squamalis sp.^nov. 



Subovate, moderately convex, subopaque ; rufo-piceous, rostrum more 

 nitid and rufescent, antennae and tarsi light infuscate red ; irregularly 

 clothed and crested with rufo-fulvous and pale feather-like squamae. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, moderately slender and arched, slightly 

 narrowed behind the middle, very finely punctate in front, with a pair of 

 minute crests just in front of the antennae, the squamae behind separated 

 along the middle by a flat line which extends backwards between the eyes. 

 Thorax a third broader than long, somewhat contracted near the apex, 

 its sides nearly straight but uneven behind, base truncate ; disc very 

 irregularly punctured, the bare spaces smooth, an elongate crest along the 

 middle does not reach the feeble basal impression, alongside this there is a 

 pair, and there is a single crest near each side at the middle. Elytra sub- 

 cordate, deflexed and attenuate posteriorly, slightly broader than thorax 

 at the base, more than double its length ; their shoulders are not prominent 

 but are covered with pale, erect, quite feather-like scales, similar ones occur 

 on the dorsum and hind slope, on the top and sides they become conspicuous : 

 the punctation is somewhat irregular, not quite seriate above, but the hind 

 slope is punctate-striate. Pygidium castaneous, two segments uncovered, 

 these are smooth, the last is strongly transverse. 



Scape flexuous, elongate and slender but clavate at the extremity, inserted 

 just before the middle and extending to the centre of the eye, with fine 

 depressed scales only ; basal two joints of the funicle rather slender and 

 equally elongate, third rather shorter than the transverse following ones, 

 seventh rather broader than the base of the club, which is subovate, 

 narrowed towards its base, densely and minutely pubescent, and indistinctly 

 articulate. 



Underside castaneous, with flavesceut squamae. Prosternum emargi- 

 nate. Metasternum truncate behind. Basal ventral segment broadly 

 rounded and depressed in front, deeply incurved medially bi'liind, so that in 

 the middle it is only half the length of the large smooth second, fifth longer 

 than preceding two combined, densely and minutely sculjitured, with short 

 fine setae. 



Scrobes quite lateral and foveiform, situated just before the middle. 

 There are no ocular lobes. Tibiae not perceptibly mucronate. The usual 

 basal depression of the thorax and elytra, so consjiicuous in Phrynixux, 

 are almost entirelv absent. The abdominal structure and abbreviated 



