Sjiecies oj Sew-Ztalund ( uleoj>tera. G3 



at tlie extremity, wilh fine yellow setje, It attains the baek of 

 the eye ; tuniciilus pubescent, jjradually incrassatc, basal two 

 joints nearly equally elongate, the first slightly thicker. 

 Ltffs normal. 



Underside reddisli ; basal two ventral segments seemingly 

 conniite, but with an oblique series of coaree contiguous 

 punctures from the centre to each side, denoting where the 

 suture lu'tween them should be ; acceptii:^f that line of demar- 

 cation, the second is longer than the Hi>.t and appears de- 

 pressed at the base ; i)oth are coarsely punctate ; fifth finely 

 j)uncturcd, third atid fourth impunctate, with deep sutures. 



Nearly allied to /'. tuberculutus (1509), but with peculiar 

 abdominal sculpture. 



Length (rost. inch) 2| ; breadth \\ line. 



Riccarton, Canterbury. Two, found by Mr, 11. Suter. 



Amphiskirra, gen, nov. 



Body apterous, elongate, unequally convex, much contracted 

 medially, s[)arsoly clothed. 



Rostrum arched, elongate, frontal half slightly expanded, 

 the basal portion with a fine but well-defined carina, which 

 becomes wider at the point of antcnnal insertion, but much 

 finer beyond it. Aerobes fovciform at the middle, but 

 prolonged, yet less deeply, towards the front ot the eyes. 

 AntenutE moderately long and slender. Scape slender and 

 tU'xuous, clavate at the extremity, and attaining the back of 

 the eye. Fuiiicu/us 7-articulate, the second joint quite as 

 lung as, but rather more slender than, the basal one, .'i-6 

 ^ubobloMg, seventh slightly enlarged ; club oval, not visibly 

 articulated. Eijes free from thorax, situated quite at the 

 sides in front, small, rather flat, distinctly facetted, longi- 

 tudinally oval. Head shovt, much narrowed in front, globular 

 below. Thorax about as long as broad, very much swollen 

 or dilated at each side before the middle, base sharj)ly trun- 

 cate and submarginate, without ocular lobes. Scutetluni 

 absent. Elytra closely adapted to base of thorax, of the 

 same width there, widest behind the middle. Legs mode- 

 rately long; femora arched above ; tibire somewhat flexuons, 

 distinctly mucroiiatc at the extremity. Tarsi rather short, 

 ba.'sal joint scarcely perceptible from above, second trans- 

 verse, third only slightly dilated, excavate above, but not 

 lobate ; terminal as long as all the preceding joints combined ; 

 claws small. 



Prosternum slightly incurved in front. .Vntcrior cox<e 



