OF NEW ZEALAND. 445 



crassata ; tibia apice baud laminatse. Abdomen segmento secundo 

 quam tertio paulo longiore. 



With nearly all the characters of the European Molytes, this genus 

 is principally distinguished by the tibiae being without that peculiar 

 external prolongation of the lamina which normally forms the floor of 

 the hollow (corbel) above which the tarsus is inserted, and also by the 

 club of the antennae being distinctly marked off from the funicle. The 

 fine species constituting the only exponent of the genus at present has 

 been recently discovered by Captain Hutton at Tarndale, near the head 

 of the river Wairau, in the Nelson province. " It lives on the spear- 

 grass (Aciphylla colensonis), and sucks its turpentiny juices. The plant 

 only grows on the mountains, from 2000 to 5500 feet elevation." The 

 insect is entirely black ; but some of the specimens are sprinkled with a 

 few fine straw-coloured hairs. 



783. L. Imttoni, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., /any., 1876. 

 L. ovalis, niger, nitidus ; capite antice convexo ; rostro tenuiter punctato, 

 basi fovea profunda impresso ; oculis valde angustis ; antennis piceis ; 

 scapo apice sensim incrassato ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus 

 sequalibus, reliquis submoniliformibus; clava breviter ovata, tomentosa; 

 prothorace ineequaliter convexo, leviter vage punctato ; elytris striato- 

 punctatis, punctis approximatis, interstitiis planatis, tertio quintoque 

 multo latioribus ; corpore infra nitido, subtiliter punctato ; pedibus 

 tenuiter vage setulosis. 



Long., 9-11 lin. 

 Tarndale. 



784. L. tuberculatus, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 

 1877. L. ovalis, fuscus, griseo-squamulosus ; capite antice convexo; 

 rostro modice longiusculo, in medio subcarinulato, basi fovea impressa ; 

 prothorace subtransverso, supra insequali, lateribus subangulatis, apice 

 constricto ; elytris ovatis, seriatim punctatis, interstitiis tertio, quinto 

 septimoque paucituberculatis ; abdomine leviter punctulato. 



Long., 7-8 lin. 



Christchurch. 



Notwithstanding a great dissimilarity in general appearance, owing 

 to the squamosity and tuberculation, I have no hesitation in placing it 

 with Lyperobius. I am indebted for my specimens of this and other 

 Curculionidce, from Christchurch, to Mr. C. M. Wakefield, who informs 

 me that it is found on a plant called the " Spaniard," which, in the 

 spring, abounds with Curculionida. 



Geophilus. 



Nov. gen. 



Body convex, very broad and short. Rostrum short, robust, narrowed 

 at base, deflexed in front ; scrobes foveiform. Head globose, immersed 

 up to the eyes. Antenna rather slender, moderately long: the scape 

 flexuose, slender, abruptly clavate at apex ; funiculus seven-jointed, the 

 first joint larger than second, ovate, the others nearly similar to each 



