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whole surface is so densely covered with depressed scales that the 

 sculpture is concealed. 



Elytra sub-cylindrical, with prominent shoulders, widely incurved 

 and somewhat compressed laterally near .the middle, transversely con- 

 vex, with rounded apices ; their surface is rather uneven, somewhat 

 elevated just in front of the abruptly declivous apical portion, and bear- 

 ing on each three tubercular elevations which are situated nearer to the 

 suture than the margin ; their surface is densely covered with rounded 

 and depressed whitish scales, intermingled with elongate yellowish ones, 

 the former predominating. The legs are elongate, and clothed like the 

 body. 



Metasternum elongate ; two anterior pairs of coxa sub-contiguous, 

 the posterior moderately remote. 



Length, 2i ; breadth, \ line. 



Of this remarkable insect I found two specimens, the female at 

 Tairua, the male near Whangarei Heads. The genus, I think, should 

 be placed at the end of the Anobiidce. 



FAMILY BOSTRICHIDES. 



Ligida without paraglossae, membraneous or coriaceous. Mentum 

 corneous. Maxillce, ciliated, lamelliform, bilobed. The head frequently 

 covered by the prothorax so as to be invisible from above. Antenna 

 with eleven or nine joints, of which the last three are clavate ; inserted 

 at the front margin of the eyes. Pronotum and parapleura of the 

 prothorax confounded. Anterior coxa thick, globose or oval, a little 

 prominent; the intermediate globose; the posterior transversal, often 

 covered outwardly by the metathoracic parapleurse ; apical spurs of the 

 tibiae, much developed, particularly those of the anterior; tarsi pentamer- 

 ous, their basal joint very small, their second and fifth very large. 

 Abdomen with five segments, the first larger than the others. 



Apate. 



Fabricius ; La cord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. iv.,/. 537. 



Organs of the mouth more or less villose. Mentum transversely 

 triangular. Ligula widened and sinuated in front. Head sub-cylin- 

 drical, elongated, the epistome usually provided with a central tooth. 

 Eyes distant from the prothorax, rounded and prominent. Antenna- 

 ten-jointed, the two basal joints longer than the following five, joints 

 three to seven transversalj serrate, gradually widening ; club shorter than 

 the stalk, its joints transversal, strongly serrate. Prothorax transversal, 

 convex, more or less tuberculate or rough in front, often with a curved 

 spine on each side in front, its angles rounded. Scutellum triangular, 

 truncated at the end. Elytra elongate, cylindrical, truncated and den- 

 tate at their extremity in the greater number of species. 



Tibice sometimes unarmed, sometimes denticulated on the external 

 edge ; the spur of the anterior stout and curved ; tarsi normal. 



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