CRYPTORHYNCHIDAE. 575 



a dark border. Legs and antennae similar. Mentum small, the thick 

 fiavescent palpi quite visible. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 3| mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



Glenhope ; 18th July, 1915. A single example, from Mr. T. Hall. 



Allanalcis Broun. Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 45, p. 141. 



4124. Allanalcis variatus sp. nov. 



Convex, subovate, broadest near the shoulders, tapering towards both 

 extremities, without crests or inequalities, opaque ; fuscous, densely covered 

 with depressed elongate squamae, mostly of a pale brick-red hue, and with 

 some scattered, erect white ones ; sides of thorax and elytra nigrescent, 

 usually with an angular, large, fuscous spot on each side of the posterior 

 declivity ; rostrum and legs more or less piceous, antennae and tarsi light 

 infuscate red. 



Rostrum stout, about as long as thorax, slightly narrowed towards the 

 middle, minutely asperate. Thorax of equal length and breadth, slightlv 

 narrowed towards its rounded apex, the base oblique at each side, its 

 moderately coarse and close punctation scarcely discernible. Elytra cordate, 

 nearly double the length of thorax, just as wide at the base, broader near 

 the shoulders, considerably narrowed but not vertical behind ; with narrow, 

 indistinctly punctured striae and feebly elevated interstices. 



Legs coarsely setose, tibiae nearly straight inwardly. Penultimate tarsal 

 joint broadly expanded, grooved above along the middle, entire and 

 densely setose underneath, the terminal rather slender and attached to 

 the base of the third, with small claws. Antennae of normal structure. 



Underside piceous ; basal segment large and flat, coarsely punctate, 

 with tawny scales, the second very short, indistinctly separated and on 

 the same plane, fifth rufescent, finely punctate. 



This resembles the Auckland A. incidtus (2572), which has tawny or 

 infuscate yelloiv squamae, in place of infuscate red as erroneously recorded 

 in the printed description. A. variatus is larger, the thoracic base is not 

 truncate, the posterior declivity is more sloping, and the squamae are 

 elongate. 



Length (rostrum exclusive). 2^ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Glenhope, near Nelson. About ten examples were detected amongst 

 decaying forest-leaves bv Mr. T. Hall, most of them during the winter of 

 1915. 



4125. Allanalcis seticollis sp. nov. 



Subopaque, nearly plane above, posterior declivity subvertical ; more 

 or less infuscate red, elytral striae quite rufescent ; the thorax with 

 elongate, decumbent, reddish scales near the sides, paler and more distant 

 ones towards the middle, which bears depressed fulvescent setae. Elytral 

 disc with elongate-oval, tawny-fulvous squamae, whitish ones extend from 

 the shoulders backwards and are then irregularly curved inwardly as far 

 as the third interstices, these are bordered behind by nigrescent ones, white 

 scales cover, but unevenly, about half of the declivity. 



Thorax as long as broad, only very slightly narrowed before the middle, 

 relatively coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra cordate, not twice the 

 length of thorax, on about the same level ; on each there are three well- 

 marked dorsal striae, and near the side two series of elongate impressions. 



21— Bull. No. 1. 



