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Rostrum stout, with two longitudinal grooves extending to the eyes. 

 Prothorax about as long as broad, sub-cylindrical, a little narrowed in 

 front, rugosely sculptured. Scutellum rounded behind. Elytra sub- 

 ovate, convex, rather broad, abruptly declivous and much narrowed 

 posteriorly ; their surface is uneven, with rows of punctures interrupted 

 by irregular elevations the third interstices are irregularly elevated, and 

 terminate at the posterior declivity in a conspicuous tubercle, the fifth 

 are elevated at the middle and end behind in a smaller tubercle, and 

 there are other obtuse elevations along the sides ; apex simple. The 

 tibia are flexuose. 



Length, 3! lines (rost. inch). 



Smaller than E. censorius, with shorter and relatively broader elytra ; 

 larger than E. aculeatus, with the elytra more uneven, much broader, 

 not so sharply compressed behind, and their apices not prolonged to a 

 point. 



My specimen, from Professor Hutton, is labelled "Turnip-fly, Inver- 

 cargill." 



Irenimus. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan., 1876. 



Rostrum parum elongatum, modice robustum, versus apicem mani- 

 feste crassius, apice triangulariter emarginato ; scrobes breves, apicales. 

 Antennas, graciles ; scapus prothoracem attingens ; funiculus articulo 

 primo vix incrassato ; clava distincta. Oculi subtenuiter granulati. Pro- 

 thorax subcylindricus, basi rotundatus, lobis ocularibus parum promi- 

 nulis. Elytra elongato-cordata, basi prothorace manifeste latiora, 

 humeris obliquis. Femora crassa ; tibia flexuosae, posticae corbellis sub- 

 cavernosis. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis. Corpus 

 squamosum. 



Allied to the Australian genus Perperus, differing principally in the 

 base of the elytra exceeding the width of the prothorax at the base. 

 This is a character on which Lacordaire lays great stress ; but in many 

 genera it really seems to be only of specific importance. 



780. I. parilis, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1876. 

 /. oblongus, niger, squamis obscure cervinis omnino dense tectus, setu- 

 lisque nigris adspersus ; rostra capite duplo longiore, antice carinato ; 

 antennis ferrugineis ; scapo squamoso ; funiculo articulis tribus basalibus 

 sensim brevioribus, cseteris obconicis ; prothorace parum longiore quam 

 latiore, lateribus rotundatis, pone medium subparallelis ; scutello inviso ; 

 elytris seriatim punctatis, interstitiis vix convexis, tibiis subbisinuatis, 

 apice subacuminatis. 



Long., 3j lin. 

 Christchurch. 



781. I. albicans, n.s. Piceous, densely covered with depressed 

 whitish scales, with similarly coloured bristles intermingled, legs and 

 antennae obscure red. 



