OTIORHYNCHIDAK. 631 



The six horizontal nodosities across the nigrescent top of the posterior 

 declivity, and the simple rostrum, differentiate this species. 



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



Karekare, west coast, Auckland ; 23rd February, 1916. Three ex- 

 amples, from Mr. A. E. Brookes, of Mount Albert. 



4205. Inophloeus festucae sp. nov. 



Eobust, slightly convex, opaque ; piceous, tarsi and antennae fusco- 

 rufous ; densely covered with small depressed, light - coppery or fusco- 

 testaceous squamae and a few short grey setae, on the thorax there are 

 many erect, short, dark setae, elytral nodosities fuscous. 



Rostrum a fifth shorter than thorax, moderately dilated in front, with 

 a slight carina along the middle ; scrobes quite open above near the apex. 

 Thorax subtruncate at base and apex, very little broader than long, slightly 

 wider near the front than elsewhere ; with coarse irregular, wart-like rugae, 

 and a moderately well-marked groove from base to apex. Scutellum indis- 

 tinct. Elytra suboblong, somewhat incurved and rather wider than thorax 

 at the base, fully a third broader just behind the obliquely narrowed 

 shoulders, very gently narrowed towards the declivity which is obliquely 

 contracted and vertical ; they are nearly plane above, moderately seriate- 

 punctate, some of the punctures longer and coarser than the others, the 

 suture slightly elevated at the base and again below the top of the declivity ; 

 third interstices also a little elevated at the base, with a small nodosity on 

 top of the declivity, fifth hardly at all raised but terminating a little 

 farther forward than the third, as larger horizontal nodosities. 



Basal two joints of funiculus almost equally elongate, third and fourth 

 rather longer than the following ones ; club elongate-oval, indistinctly 

 quadriarticulate . 



Ocular lobes distinct. Eyes almost flat, widely distant from each other. 

 Tibiae flexuous. Cilia of posterior corbels rather narrowly separated. 



Underside thickly covered with depressed tawny-grey scales and elon- 

 gate setae. Structurally like I. sexnodosus ; fifth ventral segment simple. 



In one example pale spots occur between the elytral punctures. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 10| mm. ; breadth, 4| mm. 



Stephen Island ; 17th September, 1916. Several, found by Mr. A. C. 

 O'Connor feeding on tall fescue and the tops of ngaio (Myoporum) shrubs. 



Group Cylindrorhinidae. 

 Phaeophanus Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 792. 



4206. Phaeophanus o'connori sp. nov. 



Robust, moderately convex and elongate, opaque ; nigrescent, thickly 

 covered with depressed, hair-like, mostly coppery-brown squamae, those along 

 the sides and on the posterior declivity always paler, sometimes whitish, 

 the thorax with a white streak along the centre, legs irregularly spotted 

 with grev. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, considerably dilated in front, the broad 

 channel along the middle, which is wider in front than behind, has costiform 

 lateral borders from the antennal insertion to the eyes. 



Thorax, including the conspicuous ante-median prominence at each side, 

 a fifth broader than long, base and apex subtruncate ; with an obtuse 

 carina along the middle, which, however, becomes obsolete behind, the basal 

 half is irregularly uneven but without visible punctation ; before the 



