276 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



ened, those of the first pair with the margin sinuated, bulging into 

 a broad blunt tooth ; tibiae of second pair with a strong tooth near 

 the end. 



This little Curculionideous genus comes, I believe, near Gronops 

 and Aterpus of the scientific Schcenherr (Gen. et Spec. Cure, ii., 

 pars 1, pp. 250252). 



The species is of a deep pitchy brownish black; the thorax 

 above with three distinct brownish ashy lines ; the lateral ones 

 broadest and somewhat irregular. These lines are formed by 

 distinct coloured scales. The elytra are ribbed, each having, at 

 least, six raised ribs, two of which meet at the end ; some of them 

 have erect scales along the irregular edge ; between each is a line 

 of impressed points. The sides of the elytra, at the broadest part, 

 are especially hairy. The legs are punctate, and, like the under 

 surface of the body, have brownish ashy hairs, longest on the 

 posterior part of the tibiae and tarsi. Length about four lines. 



71. Aterpus ? or Hippor hinus ? Curculio tridens. Fair. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. 



72. Eurhamphus fasciculatus. Shuck., Ent. Mag. v., p. 



506, pi. 18. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Shuckard. 



73. Nitidula abbreviate Fabr., Syst. El. i., 348. 5. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. 



74. Apate minutus. Fabr., Syst. Ent. 54. 4. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. 



75. Dermestes cnrnivorus. Fabr., Syst. Ent. 55. 2. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. 



76. Dermestes navalis. Fabr., Syst. Ent. 56. 9- 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. 



77. Pristoderus scaber. (Fabr.) Hope, Col. Man., iii., 

 p. 181, and p. 81. Dermestes scaber. Fabr. Syst. 

 Ent. 57. 16. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. 



78. Dermestes limbatus. Fabr., Ent. Syst. Eleuth. i., 

 318. 36. Inhabits New Zealand. 



79. Prionoplus (Prionus. auct.} reticularis. White, n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Pitchy brown ; the margins of the abdominal segments beneath 



