Species of Neio-Zeuland Culeoptera. 57 



Stephanorhynchus hrevip>ennis. 



8. squamulis filiformibns brevibus fere omiiino tectus ; rostro capite 

 paulo longiore, antice gibboso, fronte super oeulos leviter bituber- 

 culata, tuberculis hand setosis ; occipite longitudiualiter oxcavato ; 

 clava antennarum elongato-ovata, arete articulata ; prothorace 

 capite minora, conico, pone apicera strangulato ; elytris brevibus, 

 leviter striatis, singulis quaflrituberculatis,tuberculojuxta suturam 

 pone medium majore,'vel cristam triangularem formante, apicibua 

 rotundatis ; tibiis fulvis, posticis valde curvatis. Long. 24 lin. 



Hah. Cliristcliurcli. 



Well differentiated J inter alia^ Lj its short eljtra, rounded 

 at the apices. 



Hoplocneme punctatissima. 



H. nigra, vel purpureo-nigra, vix nitida, femoribus apice, tibiis tar- 

 sisque subferrugiueis, supra confertim punctata ; capite inter 

 oeulos baud excavato, coUo valde constricto ; clava antennarum 

 majuscula ; prothorace subcylindrico, angulis anticis rotundatis ; 

 Bcutello parvo ; elytris sat ampliatis, baud striatis. Loug. 1|- lin. 



Hab. Otago. 



Smaller than H. Hooheri, Wli., from which it may be at 

 once known by the iiTegularly crowded punctures on tlie elytra 

 Avithout any trace of stride, instead of being in regular lines. 

 Mr. White refers Hoplocneme to the neighbourhood of Orches- 

 teSj with which it has nothing to do ; it is one of the Erirhi- 

 ninge, and allied to the same writer's Stephanorhytichus. The 

 funicle in Hoplocneme is six-jointed, and the club is four- 

 jointed. 



Pactola. 



Rostrum capite brevius, cylindricum ; scrobes obliquce, infra oeulos 

 desincntes. Antennce subterminales ; scapus elongatus, pone oeu- 

 los superans ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo majusculo, 

 quatuor ultimis transversis ; dava magna, ovata, concrete. Oculi 

 prominuli, laterales, rotimdati, grosse granulati, Prothorax an- 

 gustus. Elytra ampliata, supra irregularia, humeris callosis. 

 Fedes quatuor anteriores mediocres, femoribus simplicibus, tibiis 

 subrectis ; pedes posteriores majores, /(2;nor/6»s fortiter clavatis, 

 infra dcnte magno armatis, tibiis arcuatis, baud compressis, om- 

 nibus upice muticis ; tarsis articulo tertio late bilobo ; inujaicuU 

 subdcntati ; coxiB anticae coutiguie, intermedia; et postica) late dis- 

 tantea. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus valde ampliatis. 



It is with some doubt that I refer this genus to the Erirhi- 

 ninje. In the form of the hind legs it approaches the two 

 preceding genera ; but the head, not constricted beliiud to 



