548 COLEOPTERA. 



crests ; posterior declivity quite striate, the scales concentrated as small 

 spots. 



Scape medially inserted, attaining the back of the eye, slender and 

 flexuous near the base, clavate near the extremity without erect setae ; 

 basal two joints of the funicle equally elongate, joints 3-6 transverse, 

 seventh larger, club small. 



Legs elongate, tibiae raucronate and bearing somewhat rufescent curled 

 setae ; penultimate joint of tarsi excavate above, entire and finely hispid 

 below. 



Underside dull black, with a few short, depressed fulvescent setae. 

 Prostcrnum hardly at all emarginate. Basal two ventral segments connate 

 and about eq;ially large, the first subtruncate between the widely distant 

 coxae, its hind suture obliterated in the middle and, near the sides, repre- 

 sented by oblique series of punctures only, both segments nearly smooth 

 in the middle, punctate elsewhere ; fifth finely and closely. 



This fine species very well accords with the generic diagnosis, but 

 cannot easily be confounded with any other. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 4^ mm. ; breadth, 2^ mm. 



Glenhope, Nelson. Unicjue. Another of Mr. T. Hall's discoveries on 

 the 23rd November, 1914. 



Phnjnixus binodosus (3278) var. — From Mr. Hall I have three varietal 

 specimens, captured on the 20th December, 1914, and 20th February, 1915, 

 at Glenhope. These dif!er as follows from the type : — 



Rostrum with a pair of small greyish crests before and behind the 

 antennae. Thorax with a central ridge which is slender in front but broader 

 at the middle, where it ends. In addition to the pale humeral ridge and 

 prominent posterior nodosities there are about five very unequal dorsal 

 elevations on each ehi;ron ; one at the base is quite elongate. In one, 

 mounted on its back, the basal two ventral segments are connate as usual, 

 bu^ their coarse punctation is nearly absent in the middle. 



It is evident that the type, which was found at Broken River, had been 

 rubbed or damaged, and that the Glenhope specimens represent the species 

 in its perfect condition. 



Erymneus Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 435. 

 4082. Erymneus terrestris sp. nov. 



Subovate, moderately elongate, slightly convex, opaque ; piceous, 

 antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; clothed with small, decumbent, light 

 reddish-brown squamae, the crests consist principally of greyish, suberect, 

 woolly scales ; legs with curled rufescent setae. 



Rostrum a third shorter than thorax, its anterior half slightly expanded,^ 

 the basal portion finely longitudinally carinate, and bearing a pair of minute 

 cress just behind the antennae and a larger one in front of the eyes. 

 Thorax slightly longer than broad, somewhat contracted- in front, mode- 

 rately coarsely and closely punctured ; its apical portion with a pair of 

 distinct crests and a narrow central ridge, across the middle it is tricristate, 

 the longitudinal basal depression has obtusely raised, but not definitely 

 crested, lateral borders. Elytra oblong-oval, twice the length of thorax, 

 almost double its width near the middle, the base bisinuate ; on each 

 elytron, alongside the broad basal impression, there is an obtuse elevation, i 



the oblique, slightly porrect shoulder is covered with greyish suberect 

 sc(uamae, which form two, sometimes three, somewhat rounded crests which 

 extend from the humeral ridge towards the suture, and a pair of incon- 



