RHIPIPHORIDAE. 619 



so as to clasp the outside of the shoulders. Scutellum large, the middle of 

 the base sharply depressed longitudinally and smooth, with finely carinate 

 lateral borders. Elytra four times the length of thorax, gradually narrowed 

 posteriorly, with strongly rounded, dehiscent apices, which do not cover 

 the terminal abdominal segment. 



Legs slender and elongate. Anterior tibiae simple, the others finely 

 bispinose at the extremity. Tarsi pentamerous, slender, longer than the 

 tibiae, their claws thickened underneath for two-thirds of their length, 

 the remainder curved and slender. 



None of the genera in Lacordaire's four tribes agree with Allocinops, 

 which, indeed, is more approximated to the New Zealand Rhipistena 

 (p. 416, Man. N.Z. Cotaopt.). In the typical species, R. lugubris Sharp (734), 

 the basal four joints of the antennae are relatively slender and elongate, 

 they differ in shape, and, united, are about twice the length of the lobes 

 of the succeeding ones ; its head is quite oviform, with obsolete posterior 

 angles ; the eyes are not at all transverse, they are only very slightly 

 eonvex and are emarginate inwardly ; the hind angles of the thorax are less 

 prolonged ; the scutellum is simple, and the tibiae are described as being 

 spurless. 



4189. Allocinops brookesi sp. nov. 



Elongate, widest near the middle, clothed with decumbent, slender, 

 dark ashy pubescence ; head and thorax quite nitid and black, but with 

 the posterior angles of the latter slightly rufescent ; elytra less shining, 

 nigro-piceous, their shoulders and costae slightly reddish ; antennal lobes 

 dull black, densely and minutely sculptured and pubescent ; legs piceo- 

 rufous, tibial spurs and the claws castaneous. 



Head finely, rather distantly and irregularly punctured, with a broad 

 subinterrupted median groove from the antennae to the base. Thorax 

 similarly punctate, finely margined at the base ; with an obtuse longitudinal 

 elevation behind the middle, and a broad depression between it and each 

 of the convex basal angles. Elytra finely and irregularly pimctured, each 

 tricostate, the costa nearest the suture extends from the base to the middle, 

 the next hardly reaches the extremity, the third is less distinct, it extends 

 from the middle backwards but becomes obsolete behind. 



All the New Zealand Khipiphoridae possess ample wings. 



Length, 13 mm. ; breadth, 3-| mm. 



Karekare, west coast, near Auckland ; 23rd February, 1916. Unique. 

 Caught by Mr. A. E. Brookes, of Mount Albert, after whom it is named. 



Group Otiorhynchidae. 

 Nicaeana Pascoe. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 427. 



4190. Nicaeana cordipennis sp. nov. 



Convex, of irregular contour, slightly nitid ; nigrescent, legs and antennae 

 rufo-piceous, club paler ; sparingly clothed with dark ashy and a few white 

 scales, and with some suberect greyish setae. 



Rostrum short, of the same width as the head at the base, gently 

 narrowed anteriorly, finely, distantly, and indistinctly punctate, with a 

 few white setae in front. Eyes widely separated, rotundate, slightly convex. 

 Thorax of equal length and breadth, apex and base truncate, the latter 

 margined, its sides moderately rounded ; its sculpture apparently granular, 



