54 Major T, Broun on new Genera and 



pilose, basal two joints almost equally elongate, 3-7 elougate- 

 obconical. Club very elongate, rather narrow, triarticulate. 

 Ocvlar lobes well developed. Eyes oblique, somewhat 

 acuminate in front. Tibice Hexuous, corbels of the posterior 

 rather flat, but without any external truucature. 



/. sternalis most nearly resembles this species, but the 

 rostrum has a more sharply defined carina; the thorax is 

 broader and more rounded near the front and appears more, 

 though but slightly, narrowed towards the base ; the poste- 

 rior elytral prominences arc more sharply defined, and there 

 is tawny squamosity near the sides and behind ; the apices 

 are more prolonged, and joints 3-6 of the funiculus are 

 almost oviform. The hind body is narrower. The corbels 

 of the hind tibiae have a very narrow external truncature. 



Length (rost. incl.) 5 ; breadth 2 lines. 



Invercargill. One specimen from Mr. A. Philpott. 



Inophloeus latificus, sp. n. 



Elongate, subdepressed, rufo-piceous, densely covered with 

 round flattened scales of a reddish coppery hue^ and with 

 a few depressed but not coarse setse; tip of rostrum and 

 antennae dark rufous ; legs and tarsi rufo-piceous. 



Rostrum slightly shorter than thorax, not obviously 

 grooved, with a sharply defined central carina. Scape sub- 

 davate at apex, attaining the back of the eye. Funiculus with 

 equally elongate basal two joints, 3-7 elongate- obconical. 

 Club very elongate, opaque, and pubescent. Head mode- 

 rately convex, with a linear impression along the vertex. 

 Thorax only one-tenth broader than long, slightly broader 

 near the front than elsewhere, a little obliquely narrowed in 

 front, gradually and slightly narrowed behind, its median 

 groove broad and distinct ; near each side in front there is 

 a broad oblique impression, its punctuation hidden ; the 

 greyish setae are most numerous near the sides. Scutellum 

 small, covered with yellowish scales. Elytra rather narrow, 

 parallel-sided from the shoulders backwards, much narrowed 

 behind, apices not prolonged but individually rounded ; 

 humeral angles oblique, their base not wider than that of the 

 thorax ; dorsum plane, but with a slight basal elevation of 

 the third interstices ; the fifth interstices gradually elevated 

 backwai'ds and appearing to limit the disk at the sides, they 

 end abruptly and form obvious horizontal prominences ; 

 there are two more prominences nearer the suture, directed 

 backwards on top of the hind declivity, which, as well as the 



