•^pciies ';/ .\tir./, (t/atiti Culfoplera. .5') 



sides, l)rar sonic tawny xjuainii' ; each elytron lias fouf 

 regular series of discoidal punctures, two series l>etwccn the 

 filth interstice and lateral margin and three along the 

 inflexed side. 



Femora medially dilated, with a patch of yellow scales 

 underneath; tihiie flexuous and hearing erect yellowish settr, 

 the posterior corltels with a very narrow outer truncature. 



This species, though very much like the preceding/, tjuadri- 

 coliis and /. stenialis, may he identified by the narrower 

 suhparallel contour, more glossy and brightly coloured 

 pquamosity, and by the flatter disk and more definite sculp- 

 ture of the elytra. The suhovifurm joints of the fuuiculus 

 dilTen-ntiate /. sltrnalis. 



Length (rost. incl.) 1]^; breadth If line. 



Southland. 



This is another tine weevil from Mr. A. IMiilpott's 

 collectiou. 



Proboscoccelus, geu. nov. 



Bodi/ moderately elongate and convex, sparsely pilose, a 

 little nitid. 



Rostrum about as long as thorax, widely dilated or ptcry- 

 giatc in front, rather densely and finely scto>e underneath. 

 iScruhes subapieal, profound, foveiform, quite open and 

 exposed above. Head short, as broad behind as front of 

 thorax, narrowed anteriorly to width of rostrun). Ei/es 

 minute, (|uite lateral, distant from thorax, obliquely trans- 

 versely oval, a little acuminate below. Antcnnce robust and 

 long ; scaj)c thick, setose, reaching backwards to base of 

 thorax ; funiculus 7-articulate, basal joint hardly twice as 

 long as broad, joints 2-7 short and about equal ; club stout, 

 subrotundate, articulate. Tliorar somewhat oviform, rather 

 longer than broad, base and apex truncate, witlunit distinct 

 ocular lobes. Scntellum minute. £/y//-a slightly wider than 

 thorax at base. Legs stout ; tibiae minutely bicalcarate at 

 the extremity. Tarsi moderate, penultimate joint deeply 

 bilobcd but hardly at all dilated, densely and finely setose 

 underneath. 



Anterior coxa prominent, contiguous, placed near the 

 base of prostcrnum, which is deeply incurved in front ; 

 intermediate coxae only slightly, the jjosterior very widely- 

 separated. Metasternum not abbreviated. Abdomen elongate, 

 basal segment strongly curvate between the cox.t, second 

 about as long as first, the frontal suture strongly sinuate. 



