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clothed for tlie most part with slender grey scales and out- 

 standing seta;; the 2X)sterior ^/Z'jVe somewhat inwardly bent, 

 all distinctly uncinate ; tarsi narrow, their penultimate ynni 

 but little expanded. 



The polished impunctatc basal portion of the thorax will 

 enable anyone to recognize this species. 



Length (rostr. excl.) 1^, breadth quite ^ line. 



Mount Pirougia. A single specimen found on the ground. 



Scelodolichus squamosus, sp. n. 



Elougale, convex, subopaque, nigro-fuscous ; rostrum 

 shining piceous j antennce and tarsi reddish ; legs fusco- 

 rufous ; densely covered with narrow, slender, depressed 

 testaceous squamaj and moderately elongate fuscous set£e; 

 there are two grey spots near the middle of the thorax, and 

 its apex is of the same colour. 



Rostruvi elongate, finely sculptured, with a very indistinct 

 ridge along the middle, its base squamose ; it is very 

 gradually contracted towards the middle. Antennce inserted 

 behind the centre ; funiculus elongate ; club ovate. Thorax 

 as broad as it is long, broadly constricted and slightly 

 depressed near the front, most elevated along the middle, but 

 not distinctly keeled there ; its punctuation rather fine and 

 much concealed. Elytra elongate-ovate, higher than the 

 thorax ; shallow indistinctly punctate strice are visible on a 

 denuded spot in the disk. Legs long, clothed like the body, 

 but with more grey scales ; tibias nearly straight. 



Basal ventral aegment very long and flat, second short and 

 deflexed behind, third and fourth much abbreviated, iifth 

 large and flat, the supplementary segment depressed behind. 



This may be placed near S. hilaris ; it is, however, much 

 more convex and narrower, with longer and more slender legs 

 and antennas, and the clothing and sculpture are materially 

 different. 



Length (rostr. excl.) 1^, breadth f line. 



Mount Te Aroha. One, March 1894, on the ground. 



Obs, — S. Uneithorax (No. 882). A variety occurs on the 

 Hunua Range which should be recorded here. Bodi/ rather 

 shorter ; tarsi not so slender and elongate ; the erect setiv not 

 so coarse ; the basal ventral segment longitudinally impressed. 

 If I were to treat this as a distinct species there would be 

 great diflBculty in distinguishing the two. 



