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frontal portion depressed, so that the basal part appears to 

 be abruptly elevated and mar<?iuate with short erect scales; 

 the discoidal squaraosity is fuscous and overlapping, thus 

 concealing the punctuation ; the lateral squamae are paler. 

 Scutel/um small. Elytra apparently striate, but their whole 

 sculpture is rendered indistinct by the overlapping scales, 

 most of which are dark, but paler on the third and fifth 

 interstices, which look like interrupted ridges, the inner being 

 most distinct ; near each side, in line with the hind thighs, 

 some greyish scales are concentrated ; they are of the same 

 Avidth as the thorax at the base, but curvedly narrowed 

 behind. Tarsi setose, penultimate articulation twice as 

 broad as the second^ transverse, with very short lobes. 



A veritable Sympedius, agreeing in most respects with 

 S. testitdo (H89), but only about half its bulk, with the 

 rostrum straight. The basal joint of the funiculus is incras- 

 sate, but does exceed the slender second in length ; the an- 

 tenna! insertion is exactly at the middle of the rostrum. 

 It diflFers from S. lepidus (1683) in appearance and colora- 

 tion ; that species, however, has more slender tarsi, more 

 abruptly dilated third joints, and more slender terminal 

 ones ; the antennae are stouter and are implanted just before 

 the middle. 



Length (rost. excl.) If ; breadth | line. 



Otara, Southland. One sent to me by Mr, A. Philpott in 

 November 1894. 



Om(eacalles, gen. nov. 



Body compact, convex, subovate, broadest at the middle 

 and tapering towards both extremities, squamose. Legs 

 elongate and rather slender ; tibiae straight, uncinate at 

 apex. Scape rather slender, incrassate apically, barely 

 reaching the eye. Funiculus 7-articulate, basal two joints 

 obconical, of nearly equal length, neither elongate; 3-6 

 rather longer than broad, almost moniliform, seventh trans- 

 verse ; club ovate, £?/e5 depressed, subtriangular, truncate 

 below and nearly so behind. The scrobes extend from the 

 middle of the rostrum to the eyes. 



Pectoral canal deep in front, continued between the vertical 

 lateral borders of the mesosternum in front of the middle 

 coxse, and extending as a smooth sloping surface as far as 

 the truncate suture of the short metasternum, and not 

 bounded there by any raised hind margin. Basal ventral 

 segment medially flattened, with the intercoxal suture quite 

 straight, rather larger than the second, which slopes back- 

 wards to the level of the abbreviated third and fourth. 



