Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. , bo 



Lyperobius Huttoni. 



L. ovalis, niger, nitidus ; capite antice convexo ; rostro teuuiter 

 puuctato, basi fovea profunda impresso ; oculis valde angustis ; 

 antennis piceis ; scapo apice sensim incrassato ; funiculo articulis 

 duobus basalibus sequalibus, reliquis submoiiiliformibus ; clava 

 breviter ovata, tomentosa ; prothorace inaequaliter convexo, leviter 

 vage punctato ; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis approxiraatis, 

 interstitiis planatis, tertio quintoque multo latioribus ; corpore 

 infra nitido, subtiliter punctato ; pedibus tenuiter vage setulosis. 

 Long. 9-11 lin. 



Hab. Tarndale. 



P^DAKETUS. 



Caput parvum ; rostrum modice elongatum, apicem versus crassius ; 

 scrobes praemedianae, obliquae, ante medium oculorum desinentes. 

 Ocidi ovales, grosse granuluti. Scapus oculum vix attingens ; fu- 

 niculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo magno, caeteris transversis. 

 Frotliorax amplus, utrinque rotundatus, basi leviter bisinuatus. 

 Scutellum invisum. Elytra breviter cylindrica, basi prothoracis 

 latiora. Coxie antiese baud contiguse ; femora mutica ; . tihice 

 cylindricse, unco valido armatae ; tarsi breves ; unguiculi liberi. 

 Fropectus baud excavatum. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus 

 ampliatis. 



1 can only compare this genus to the Australian Psaldus^ 

 from which it is at once differentiated, inter alia^ by its nonnal 

 scrobes and propectus (the latter without the slightest trace of 

 a canal). Syagrius has a different rostrum and the tibioe not 

 armed with a hook. 



Pcedaretiis hispidus. 



P. breviter cylindricus, fuscus, squamulis erectis piliformibus, rostro 

 incluso, vestitus ; antennis nitide subferrugiiieis, clava ovata ; 

 prothorace latitudine longitudini aequali, lateribus valde rotundatis, 

 supra confertim fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striatis, striis 

 punctis remotis impressis ; corpore infra fortiter punctato ; tarsis 

 fulvis. Long. 1| lin. 



IJab. Auckland. 



Erirhinus acalyptoides. 

 E. ovatus, fulvus, parce sericeo-pilosus, prothorace fusco ; rostro 

 gracili, prothoraci longitudine aequali, modice arcuato,basi striato; 

 antennis fere in medio rostri iusertis, clava majuscula, fusca ; 

 prothorace transverse, utrinque valde rotundato, sat vage punc- 

 tato ; scutello rotundato ; elytris prothorace multo latioribus, 

 striato-punctatis, apice rotundatis ; pedibus fulvis ; corpore infra 

 infuscato. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. Otago. 



I can see nothing to differentiate this jjretty little species 

 generically from Erirhinus. It is very simihir in appearance 

 to our Acalyptus Carjnni. 



