142 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and 



crassiusculis ; chd'a distincta. Protliorax transversus, lobis ocula- 

 ribus nullis, Eh/tni obovata, humcris obsoletis. Pahs mcdiocres, 

 iutcrmcdii paulo breviores ; tibia' antica) subflexuosa3 ; xmgues liberi. 



Witli some hesitation I have come to the conckision that 

 tlie nearest ally of tliis genus is ProsayJeus, from which, how- 

 ever, it differs, inter ah'a, in its foveiform scrobes, placed on the 

 dorsal surface near the apex of the rostrum. At first sight the 

 species here described reminds one of our Metallites marginatus. 



Nicceana modesta. 



N. oblongo-ovata, dense griseo-squamosa, maciilis indistinctis albis 

 (aUquando vitta humerali) notata ; antciiuis pedibusque rufo-tes- 

 taceis, piHs griseis adspersis ; capite supra oculos modice convexo, 

 antice subplanato ; prothoracc anticc posticeque ti'uucato, utrinquo 

 rotuudato ; scutello triaugulari, minuto ; elytris subcordatis, 

 striato-punctatis ; tibiis intus muticis ; tarsis articulo secundo di- 

 latato. Long. 1| lin. 



Hah. Otago, Waitaki. 



Lyijerohiiis tuherculatus. 



L. oralis, fuscus, griseo-squamulosus ; capite antice convexo ; rostro 

 modice lougiusculo, in medio siibcarinulato, basi fovea impressa ; 

 prothorace subtransverso, supra ina3quali, lateribus subangulatis, 

 apice constricto ; elytris ovatis, seriatim punctatis, iuterstitiis 

 tertio, quiuto septimoque paucituberculatis ; abdomine leviter 

 punctidato. Long, 7-8 lin. 



Hab. Christchurch. 



Notwithstanding a great dissimilarity in general appearance, 

 owing to the squamosity and tuberculation, I have no hesi- 

 tation in placing it Avith Lyperohius. I am indebted for my 

 specimens of this and other Curculionida from Christchurch to 

 C. ]M. Wakefield, Esq., who informs me that it is found on a 

 plant called the " Spaniard," which, in the spring, abounds 

 with Curculionidae. 



EiRATUS. 



nostrum arcuatum, validum, apiccm versus gradatim latius ; scrohes 

 subtermiuales, obliquae. Oculi ovales, transversi. Antennce bre- 

 viusculae ; clava majuscula. Prothorax utrinque rotundatus. 

 Elytra subcyHndrica, postice callosa. Prosternum antice elongatum, 

 Coxce anticoe separata?. Processus interfemoralia late truncatus. 

 Tibicn recta?, apice micinata) ; unrpxes simplices. Abdomen seg- 

 mentis duobus basalibus valde ampliatis. 



An HyIobius-{ovm, as it appears to me, but differing in its 



