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and the body is clothed with fine depressed yellowish setae, and a few 

 coarse erect fuscous setae. 



Length, if ; breadth, nearly i line. 



The species may be at once identified by its broad hind-body. I 

 found one individual only at Whangarei Heads. 



Brachyolus. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. 



Antenna longish, rather stout, funiculus seven-jointed ; basal joint 

 of antennae as long as the head, but not the length of the other joints 

 taken together ; club ovate, pointed, indistinctly jointed ; beak short, 

 considerably thickened ; eyes oblong, not very prominent; thorax nearly 

 square, rather wider in front than behind ; scutellum not visible ; elytra 

 taken together cordate ; at the base of each in the middle a tubercle 

 directed backwards ; at the tip bluntish ; legs short and stout. 



This genus comes near Cyclomus and Otiorhynchus ; it is densely 

 covered with scales. 



757- B. punctatUS, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. Pale ochrey- 

 yellow ; thorax above rather deeply pitted, behind brownish-yellow ; 

 elytra with a transverse yellowish-brown band, with many longitudinal 

 lines of rather deep points ; on each elytron near the end are two pro- 

 tuberances, the innermost largest. 



Length, z\ to 3 lines. 



Port Nicholson (Captain Parry). 



Group RHYPAROSOMIDJE. 



"(Jnder-mentum with a short wide neck, occasionally but little appar- 

 ent. Mandibles of variable form, often sloping and acute in front. 

 Rostrum of moderate length and thickness, angulous or sub-angulous, 

 rarely rounded at the angles, not parallel ; its scrobes complete in front, 

 attaining, or obliterated near, the eyes. Scape of variable length ; the 

 funiculus with seven or six joints ; the club oval or oblong-oval. Pro- 

 thorax with ocular lobes, or hollowed at its antero-inferior margin ; the 

 latter very seldom entire. Tibia unarmed, rarely, and then very briefly, 

 mucronated at the extremity ; corbels of the posterior tibiae open : tarsi 

 at most moderate, generally very short and narrow, and villose or sponge- 

 like underneath. 



Phrynixus. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 1875. 



Rostrum mediocre, arcuatum, basi angustius; scrobes median*, fovei- 

 formes. Oculi parvi, ovales, grosse granulati, a prothorace distantes. 

 Scapus antennarum clavatus ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulis a secundo 

 sensim crassioribus ; clava distincta. Prothorax sub-oblongus, irregu- 

 laris, lobis ocularibus obsoletis. Scutellum nullum. Elytra brevia, 

 ovata, angulis anticis porrectis. Pedes breviusculi ; femora in medio 



