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sparingly punctured. Thorax very little longer than broad, slightly wider 

 near the front than elsewhere, gently narrowed towards the base, more 

 contracted at the apex ; rather closely, distinctly but not coarsely punc- 

 tured, less closely alongside the obsolete median groove. Elytra nearly 

 double the width and thrice the length of thorax, somewhat curvedly 

 narrowed near the base, which is only a little broader than the thorax 

 there, a good deal narrowed posteriorly, with simple apices ; their striae 

 are rather broad and deep, indefinitely punctate, and become shallow behind ; 

 interstices moderately convex, irregularly and finely sculptured. 



Underside glossy black, with fine depressed setae. Prosternum deeply 

 eniarginate. Basal ventral segment broadly depressed in the middle, longer 

 than the second there ; third and fourth shorter, each transverselv im- 

 pressed and with a punctiform fovea at the sides ; fifth large, finely 

 transversely rugose near the base, closely and distinctly punctate behind. 



Rather larger than P. siilcipennis (3918), with more variegated, brighter, 

 and longer vestiture ; dee^Der and apparently impunctate elytral striae and 

 convex interstices ; thorax slightly longer but only obsoletely sulcate ; 

 legs with suberect setae ; scape straight, basal joint of funiculus rather 

 longer, the third and fourth shorter, club very elongate-oval. 



^. Length (rostrum inclusive), 11|^ mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Hunter Mountains, south-west of Lake Wakatipu. One, found bv 

 Mr. X. Philpott at a height of nearly 6,000 ft. , 27th December, 1914. 



4094. Phygothalpus anthracinus sp. nov. 



Shining black, below as well as above, antennae and tarsi piceo-rufous ; 

 sparingly clothed with decumbent, slender greyish scales, and a few erect 

 straw-coloured setae behind ; suboblong-oval, only moderately convex. 



Rostrum and head, together, of the same length as thorax, the former 

 moderately finely, densely, and confliiently punctured near its sides, irregu- 

 larly above, with an obtuse central carina extending from the rather broad 

 and deep interantennal impression to the well-marked fovea between the 

 eyes, its apical portion, and the head, finely and more regularly punctate. 

 Thorax of equal length and breadth, widest before the middle, more gradu- 

 ally narrowed behind than in front ; closely and somewhat rugosely punc- 

 tured near the sides, much more distantly and finely along the middle, where 

 a well-marked groove extends from behind that point nearly to the apex. 

 Elytra nearly thrice the length of thorax, not double its breadth, curvedly 

 narrowed near the base, the hind slope a good deal but not abruptly 

 narrowed, with simple apices ; they are coarsely stria te-punctate to beyond 

 the middle, much more finely behind ; interstices irregularly and very 

 finely rugose, the pair nearest each side of the suture almost plane, the 

 others moderately convex, the third with an elongate depression along the 

 inner side of each before the middle. 



This is more glossy and considerably larger than its nearest ally, 

 P. nitidulus (3764). The thorax is proportionately shorter and broader ; the 

 elytra are more narrowed near the base, the punctures there are more 

 quadrate, and the third interstices instead of being flat are, like the outer 

 ones, convex. The antennae are more elongate, the scape is flexuous, the 

 basal two joints of the funiculus are longer, the third is distinctly longer 

 than broad, and the fifth and sixth, in place of being transversely rotundate, 

 are oviform. The metasternum and basal two ventral segments are broadly 

 depressed. 



(J. Length (rostrum inclusive), \\\ mm. ; breadth, 4| mm. 



