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Rostrum moderate, sub-carinated, punctate, the punctures concealed 

 by white setae or scales. Antenna moderately slender, finely hispid, the 

 first joint of the funiculus longest, second of the same form but shorter, 

 the others about equal, club oval. Prothorax nearly as long as broad, 

 rounded laterally, base sub-truncate ; its surface is densely but not 

 coarsely punctured, leaving, however, an almost smooth space on the 

 middle. Scutellum distinct. Elytra elongate, a little emarginate at 

 the base, broader than thorax, shoulders oblique, the sides subparallel 

 but narrowed behind ; they are finely striated, the striae have rather 

 large punctures, and their fine white setae are disposed in rows on the 

 interstices, which are plane. 



Legs and under-side densely squamose ; the first abdominal segment 

 much larger than the second ; tibiae flexuose. 



Length, 2! lines ; breadth, \\. 



I have seen two specimens, which were found in Otago by Prof. 

 Hutton. A rather narrow form, so far as I can judge from the generic 

 description. 



Psedaretus. 



Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,Jany., 1876: 



' Caput parvum ; rostrum modice elongatum, apicem versus crassius ; 

 scrobes prsemedianse, obliquae, ante medium oculorum desinentes. Oculi 

 ovales, grosse granulati. Scapus oculum vix attingens ; funiculus y-arti- 

 culatus, articulo primo magno, caeteris transversis. Prothorax amplus, 

 utrinque rotundatus, basi leviter bisinuatus. Scutellum invisum. Elytra 

 breviter cylindrica, basi prothoracis latiora. Coxa anticae haud contiguae; 

 femora mutica ; tibia cylindricse, unco valido armatse ; tarsi breves ; 

 unguiculi liberi. Propectus haud excavatum. Abdomen segmentis 

 duobus basalibus ampliatis. 



I can only compare this genus to the Australian Psaldus, from which 

 it is at once differentiated, inter alia, by its normal scrobes and pro- 

 pectus, the latter without the slighest trace of a canal. Syagrius has a 

 different rostrum, and the tibise not armed with a hook. 



782. P. hlspidUS, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., /any., 1876. 

 P. breviter cylindricus, fuscus, squamulis erectis piliformibus, rostro 

 incluso, vestitus; antennis nitide subferrugineis, clava ovata ; prothorace 

 latitudine longitudini sequali, lateribus valde rotundatis, supra confertim 

 fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striatis, striis punctis remotis impressis; 

 corpore infra fortiter punctato ; tarsis fulvis. 



Long., if lin. 



Auckland (Capt. Broun). 



Lyperobius. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.^Jany., 1876. 



Molyti afnnis. Rostrum validum, rotundum ; mandibulce lamelli- 

 formes ; scrobes obliquse, oculos vix attingentes ; clava distincta. Pro- 

 thorax lobis ocularibus paulo prominulis. Elytra ovalia. Femora in- 



