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little darker in colour than the antennae ; head with a few golden-yellow 

 hairs. Thorax longer than broad, narrowest in front, with rounded 

 sides and a little narrowed posteriorly ; its surface is not very distinctly 

 sculptured, owing to its dense golden-yellow pubescence. The elytra 

 are wider than the prothorax, and gradually rounded towards the apex ; 

 they bear rather deeply impressed, punctured striae, and are sparingly 

 clothed like the thorax ; there is a scutellar, triangular patch of an 

 infuscate red, the remainder being of a pale green colour. The legs 

 are stout, pale yellow ; the femora are not greatly inflated, not notched, 

 and the intermediate tibiae are the most strongly flexuose. The under- 

 side is pale green, with scant, yellow pubescence. 



Length, ij line (rost. inch). 



Of this distinct pretty little Curculio, I obtained about half-a-dozen 

 specimens at Cabbage- tree Swamp, near Auckland ; its position should 

 be near Erirhinus. The eyes are small, distant from the thorax, and 

 the snout is rather long. 



Dorytomus. " 



Germar. 



Rostrum elongate, cylindrical, arcuated. Antenna elongate, inserted 

 beyond the middle (apically) of the rostrum ; scape reaching to the eye ; 

 funiculus seven-jointed; first as long as second and third conjointly; the 

 others nearly equal, each a little more transverse than the preceding ; 

 club stout, ovate. Eyes distinctly facetted, nearly round, a little truncated 

 inwardly, not prominent, placed at each side of the base of the rostrum. 

 Thorax with rounded sides. Elytra oblong. Femora strongly inflated, 

 distinctly dentate below ; tibia mucronated. 



These are the chief characters of D. tortrix, a British species, which 

 I examined ; the genus is closely allied to Erirhinus. 



799. D. trilobus, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 

 D. testaceo-fulvus, pube subtilissima parce vestitus, basi elytrorum macula 

 triloba nigra signatus ; rostro haud striato, longitudini prothoracis 

 sequali, subtiliter punctulato ; oculis rotundatis ; funiculo antennarum 

 brevi ; prothorace transverse, utrinque rotundato, leviter punctulato ; 

 scutello nigro ; elytris paulo depressis, fortiter striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 punctulatis ; femoribus infra angulato-dentatis. 



Long., 2 lin. 



Tairua. 



In size and shape this species resembles our D. maculatus. The 

 femora are produced into a strong angle beneath, terminating in an 

 almost obsolete tooth. 



NOTE. The species does not, I believe, occur at Tairua. I found 

 it at Cabbage-tree Swamp, near Auckland, in the year 1872. 



800. D. rufirostris, n.s. Antenna rufo-testaceous, inserted at 

 the middle of the rostrum ; scape slender ; basal joint of the funiculus 

 very long and clavate at the extremity ; club oblong-ovate. Rostrum 



