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and bears four ill-defined costae behind. The legs are stout and densely 

 clothed with setulae. 



Length, 3^ lines (rost. incl.). 



I found one at Parua, Whangarei Harbour. The basal narrowed 

 portion of the elytra is rather elongate ; its nearest ally is P. celatus. 



Epitimetes. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 



Caput parvum. Oculi exigui, rotundati. Rostrum breviusculum ; 

 scrobes sub-apicales, oculos haud attingentes. Pro thorax ampliatus, 

 versus apicem multo angustior. Elytra elongato-cordata, basi arcciata, 

 lateribus abrupte deflexa. femora antica valida ; tibia anticse flexuosse; 

 ungues approximate Coxce anticae contiguse, intermedise approximate. 



The anterior cotyloid cavities are apparently not separated from one 

 another as in Dysostinus, to which this genus is allied ; the elytra also 

 in that genus are not bent down at the sides. The greater part of the 

 scrobes are clothed with scales like the rest of the head. The species 

 described below has the outline and general appearance of the Chilian 

 Listroderus frigidus, but scarcely any resemblance to the New Zealand 

 Rhyparosomidce known to me. 



763. E. lutOSUS, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 

 E. oblongus, indumento griseo dense tectus, setulis nigris minutis 

 adspersus ; rostra capite plus duplo longiore antice tricarinato ; antennis 

 gracilibus, funiculo nitido, articulis duobus' basalibus elongatis ; pro- 

 thorace convexo, in medio longitudinaliter excavate ; scutello nullo ; 

 elytris supra sub-planatis, irregularibus, postice utrinque trituberculatis ; 

 metasterno abdomineque longitudinaliter excavatis ; tibiis posticis intus 

 ad basin dente acuto armatis, versus apicem intus penicillatis. 



Long., 4 lin. 



Christchurch (Mr. Wakefield). 



Erymneus. 



Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 



Caput parvum. Oculi exigui, rotundati, grosse granulati. Rostrum 

 longiusculum, carinatum ; scrobes foveiformes, ante medium rostri sitae. 

 Antennce funiculo articulis duobus basalibus longiusculis aequalibus, 

 primo haud ampliato, tertio ad sextum transversis, septimo longiore ; 

 clava distincta, ovata. Prothorax oblongus. Elytra ovalia. Tarsi 

 breves, articulo penultimo rotundato, integro, ultimo CEeteris conjunctim 

 longiore ; ungues divergentes. 



Allied to the European Sty plus, Dichotrachelus, Orthochcetes, &c., 

 but at once distinguished by its foveiform scrobes. Contrary to M. 

 Lacordaire's statement, I find in three species of Dichotrachelus now 

 before me the penultimate tarsal joint bilobed, not entire. I am indebted 

 to Dr. Sharp for most of the species from Tairua described in this 

 paper. 



