OTIORHYNCHIDAE. 827 



Underside piceous, covered with pale -tawny depressed scales and 

 long setae. Presternum distinctly emarginate. Metasternum moderate. 

 Abdomen elongate, second segment rather shorter than the basal, its 

 frontal suture obtusely angulate in the middle, equalling the third and 

 fourth combined, fifth also as long, slightly emarginate at apex, sixth small ; 

 the first segment broadly depressed, second flat. 



Posterior corbels without any definite external truncature. Eyes nearly 

 flat, subrotundate, free from thorax, widely distant from each other. 

 Scrobes deep, open above near the apex, becoming narrow and vague half- 

 way towards the lower front of the eyes. Ocular lobes well developed. 



This does not agree with the descriptions of the six species placed by 

 Dr. Sharp in Catoptes and Brachyolus, and there are none exactly similar 

 in my own collection. 



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



Wadestown ; 10th August, ^1916. One, from Mr A. C. O'Connor, of 

 Wellington. 



Var. — Another specimen from the same source, but received after the 

 above description had been prepared, is covered with darker, dull, light- 

 coppery brown scales ; the third and fifth elytral interstices are rather 

 more distinctly and less interruptedly elevated, ard there is a slightly raised 

 swelling at each side of the scutellum. 



Brachyolus White. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 432. 

 4200. Brachyolus nodirostris sp. nov. 



Oblong, only moderately convex, opaque ; piceous, antennae fusco- 

 rufous, tarsi chestnut-red ; densely covered with depressed fusco-fulvous 

 squamae, those on the thoracic disc rather darker but with an oval yellowish 

 central spot ; there are numerous setae also, mostly slender, decumbent and 

 greyish, the others short, dark, and erect. 



Rostrum half the length of thorax, closely punctate and bearing long 

 slender grey hairs in front, densely squamose behind ; on each side, above, 

 an elongate swelling occupies the space between the scrobe and eye, and 

 along the centre there is a narrower one, the base is a little depressed. 

 Thorax of equal length and breadth, slightly wider before the middle than 

 elsewhere, base a little curved, apex truncate ; feebly impressed near each 

 side in front, but without other inequalities or rugae. Scutellum distinct, 

 yellowish. Elytra oblong, widely incurved and slightly broader than thorax 

 at the base, only about a fourth broader near the middle, almost double its 

 length, considerably narrowed and subvertical behind ; they are regularly 

 but not coarsely striate-punctate ; third and fifth interstices rather broader 

 than the others, obsoletely elevated near the base, more distinctly behind, 

 where they terminate as small horizontal prominences on top of the 

 declivity, the suture also is slightly raised there, very few small fuscous 

 spots occur behind. 



Legs thickly squamose and setigerous, some of the scales metallic, tibiae 

 flexuous, the anterior mucronate. 



Scape straight, very gradually thickened, inserted near the apex and 

 attaining the thoracic margin, bearing fuscous setae and somewhat lustrous 

 scales ; funiculus slightly longer, its basal two joints subequal, third and 

 fourth slightly longer than the following bead-like ones ; club elongate-oval, 

 indistinctly quadriarticiilate. 



Underside nearly plane throughout, subnitid. thinly covered with 

 depressed fusco-fulvous squamae and suberect greyish setae. Presternum 



