OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 621 



Described from a single specimen mounted on cardboard minus an 

 -antenna. In unabraded fresh examples the squamae probably are more 

 numerous and of a brighter brassy hue. The legs are unusually elongate, 

 and the rufescent spots on the elytral apices have not been noticed in other 

 species. 



<$. Length (rostrum inclusive), 6 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Styx Saddle, near Ross. Found by Mr. H. Hamilton. 



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

 4192. Epitirnetes bicolor sp. nov. 



Robust, suboblong, narrowed anteriorly, only moderately convex, 

 opaque ; fusco-niger. funiculus piceo-rufous, tarsi rufo-castaneous ; covered 

 with depressed nigrescent and tawny-grey squamae, those of the latter 

 colour predominate along the lower sides and on a large space of the elytral 

 disc ; the setae are mostly decumbent and greyish, but suberect ones form 

 spots on the posterior declivity, the fuscous ones are less conspicuous. 



Rostrum fully a third shorter than thorax, moderately dilated and 

 closely but finely punctate in front, obtusely tricarinate behind. Eyes sub- 

 rotundate, quite free from thorax, widely distant from each other. Thorax 

 slightly broader than long, somewhat narrowed near the truncate apex ; 

 the discal depression broad and deep in front, narrower behind, the frontal 

 one near each side is broad and more coarsely punctured than the space 

 between them, the basal portion is slightly rugose. Elytra oblong, 2| times 

 the length of thorax, much narrowed and vertical behind, the base evidently 

 incurved so that the obtuse shoulders seem slightly porrect and distinctly 

 broader than the thoracic base ; they are seriate-punctate, third interstices 

 elevated at the base, obsoletely elsewhere, and, like the fifth, ending as 

 short horizontal prominences on the top of the posterior declivity, this has 

 the suture obtusely elevated nearly to the extremity. 



Legs moderately elongate and slender, with minute scales and many 

 setae, femora subclavate, tibiae flexuous, the posterior with some minute 

 denticles near the inner extremity, the two hind pairs of tarsi slender. 



Scape dull, rather slender, gradually thickened, implanted near the apex 

 and just reaching the thoracic apex ; basal two joints of funiculus equally 

 elongate, 3-7 diminish, yet rather longer than broad ; club elongate-oval, 

 triarticulate. 



Underside fuscous, covered with small flat tawny-grey scales and slender 

 setae. Prosternum moderately emarginate. Metasternum short. Basal 

 segment of abdomen truncate" between the widely separated coxae, nearly 

 double the length of second, their suture straight, third and fourth together 

 longer than second, fifth nearly as long as the basal. Mentum subcordate, 

 broadly impressed and occupying the buccal cavity so that only the tips 

 of the palpi are visible. Posterior corbels with narrow intervals between 

 the ciliae. 



The female of E. wakefieldi (2099) most nearly resembles the specimen 

 described above, but it is smaller, differently clothed and sculptured, and 

 the funicle and club are shorter. The tawny-grey area on the middle of 

 the elytra is absent in other species. 



$. Length (rostrum inclusive), 9 mm. ; breadth. 3§ mm. 



Martinborough, near Wellington. My specimen was sent on the 10th 

 August, 1916, by Mr. A. C. O'Connor. 



