546 Oil neio Culecplera from Xeto Zealand. 



one third tlie length of the scape, secoiul distinctly shorter, 

 joints 3-7 slightly decrease in length, 4-7 moniliform and 

 hardly at all longer than broad. Club oval, triarticulate. 

 Thorax subcylindric. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra oblong- 

 oval, wider than thorax at the base. 



Legs of moderate length. Femora clavate. Tihua simple, 

 their inner angles not prolonged and acuminate. Tarsi 

 rather short, with finely pilose soles, their third joint bilobe I ; 

 the lobes, however, are quite short. 



Presternum moderately incurved. Ocular lobes obsolete. 

 Anterior cox(e prominent and contiguous, intermediate mode- 

 rately separated, the posterior widely. Abdomen elongate, 

 the basal segment at the sides but little longer than the 

 second, the suture medially incurved ; the third and fourth 

 about a third shorter than second (these and tlie second with 

 straight sutures), fifth rather long. 



With some slight modifications the only exponent of this 

 genus might be transformed into a Clijpeorhynchus. This 

 latter, however, has more slender and much longer antennas ; 

 the eyes, instead of being rotundate, are transverse, their 

 greatest length being from above downwards; their third 

 tarsal joint is formed of very elongate and distinctly separated 

 lobes ; the prosternuin is more deeply and abruptly emar- 

 ginate ; the elytra are closely adapted to the thorax and at 

 the base do not exceed it in width; the rostrum is nearly 

 cylindrical throughout, whereas in Ilycanus the anterior two 

 thirds is of oviform outline, and the smooth apical portion is 

 not limited by any definite suture. 



Hycanus Cockaynei, sp. n. 



Suhovate, slightly convex, opaque ; fuscous, apex of thorax, 

 clytral suture, and legs castaneous, tarsi testaceous, anteinue 

 rufescent ; very sparingly clothed with rather fine short grey 

 seta?, on the hind body, however, many longer erect ones 

 occur. 



Rostrum rather coarsely punctate, but smooth, shining, and 

 reddish near the extremity ; this part bears a i'ew slender 

 •white hairs, but is not apparently marked off from the 

 asperate portion by any basal suture ; on the head there is a 

 feeble longitudinal interocular furrow. Thorax slightly 

 longer than broad, widest near the front, sligiitly constricted 

 at apex, gradually narrowed backwards ; it is not uneven, 

 there being only a short groove in front ; its whole surface 

 is densely and minutely sculptured, and the visible punctures 



