158 Major T. Broun on new Genera and 



joints 3-7 gradually thickened. Club quadriarticulate, basal 

 joint as large as the following three combined ; in Tychanus 

 it is triarticulate. 



Distinguished from the other species by its very asperate 

 hind body and pallid suture. 



Length (rost. excl.) 1^^ ; breadth l^ line. 



Ligar's Bush, Papakura. Two specimens in my own 

 collection. 



B^ORHYNCHODES, gen. nov. 



Body very convex, nearly as high behind the middle as it 

 is broad; compact, oval, squamose. 



Rostrum elongate, rather slender, almost quite parallel- 

 sided. Mandibles (Wsixnci. /Scroie* lateral, beginning at the 

 middle and extending to the eyes. Head short, on a rather 

 higher plane than the rostrum, smooth and subglobular 

 below. Eyes large, finely facetted, subtruncate in front. 

 Scape slender, almost attaining the eye. Funiculus elongate, 

 basal joint stouter and a little longer than second ; joints 

 3-7 gradually incrassate. Club elongate-oval. Thorax 

 conical, without ocular lobes. Elytra subcordate, closely 

 adapted to base of thorax, bisinuate, and only slightly wider 

 at the shoulders than the base of thorax. 



Legs moderately long but stout ; tibiae thickly mucronate 

 at extremity. 7am setose above ; basal two joints scantily 

 clothed, third densely clothed with grey hairs underneath ; 

 basal two joints moderately slender, third rather widely 

 expanded, deeply excavate above, but with very short lobes. 



Pectoral canal deep, wide in front ; its raised margins 

 extend to hind part of the intermediate coxse. Metastermuii 

 short, somewhat uneven, and on a higher plane than the 

 ventral segments. Abdomen with five segments, the first on 

 a higher level than second, and, in the middle, nearly the 

 length of the following two combined ; third and fourth each 

 shorter than second, yet not much abbreviated ; 2-4 with 

 deep sutures ; fifth subcorneal. 



Very similar to Euthyrhinus ; the scrobes, however, are 

 not abbreviated, and do not extend to the lower surface of 

 the rostrum ; the sternal canal differs, and the elytral apices 

 are not acuminate. In Rhynchodes the scrobe attains the 

 eye (which is more pointed in front) and begins before the 

 middle; the scape consequently is proportionately longer, the 

 rostrum differs, and so does tlie pectoral canal. Baiorhyn- 

 chodes, in fact, is intermediate between the genera eltcd. 



