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interstices are obtusely elevated at the summit of the hind slope, and 

 at that part the scales and setae being pallid form an oblique fascia on 

 each elytron. The legs are similarly clothed, but the paler scales and 

 setae predominate. The antenna are dark red and hispid, the club 

 pubescent. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2f ; breadth, quite i line. 



The above agrees with a specimen which I believe had been com- 

 pared with the type at London by Mr. F. P. Pascoe. I have not seen 

 the original description. 



751. C. COmpressuS, n.s. Somewhat similar to C. obliquis 

 but longer, the elytra particularly longer and laterally compressed, so 

 that they have an unusually parallel outline ; their " upper" surface is 

 longitudinally divided into three distinct areas by slightly elevated 

 costse, between which the rather coarse rows of punctures are arranged 

 in pairs, and the depressed portions are much darker in colour than the 

 rest of the body ; the base is emarginated, the posterior declivity has a 

 pale oblique fascia, and the costse near the sides and apex are of the 

 same colour as the fascia. The antenna are long, dark red, and hispid. 

 The body bears the same kind of clothing observable in the typical 

 species, and is of nearly the same colour. 



Length, 3 lines ; breadth, i. 



I found my specimen at Tairua. 



Rhadinosomus. 



Schanh.; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. vi., p. 63. 



Head horizontal, cylindrical, very elongate, with a very short thick 

 neck ; rostrum about half as long and as broad as the head, with 

 rounded angles, a little depressed above, sloping and entire at the end ; 

 scrobes visible from above in front, abruptly arcuated, ending in line with 

 the lower margin of the eyes. Antenna a little longer than the head, 

 moderately robust ; scape clavate at the end, a little arched, extending 

 beyond the eyes; joints one to seven of \hefuniculus gradually decreas- 

 ing and thickening ; club oval, acuminate, feebly articulated. Eyes 

 moderate, a little convex, oval, almost vertical. Prothorax as long as 

 the head and rostrum united, cylindrical, moderately narrowed in the 

 middle and truncated at base and apex. Scutdlum very small, puncti- 

 form. Elytra very elongate, abruptly narrowed at their base, which is 

 not wider than the prothorax, narrow, elliptical and very long, each ter- 

 minated by a rather long spine-like process. Legs slender, and rela- 

 tively moderate, the anterior placed at a third of the length of the pro- 

 thorax from the front ; thighs clavate, the four posterior pedunculated ; 

 tibia straight ; tarsi short, spongy underneath, the two basal joints 

 almost wider than the third, fourth moderate, dilated, very arched, with 

 small claws. Intercoxal process rather wide, strongly angulated ante- 

 riorly ; mesosternum very narrow, lamelliform. Body nearly smooth. 



