454 COLEOPTERA 



cylindrical, slender, very elongate, arcuated, of a shining reddish 

 colour. Head short, with two lines of yellow pubescence ; eyes rather 

 coarsely facetted. Prothorax slightly convex, about as long as broad, 

 its base finely margined and a little produced at the middle, dilated 

 laterally, the sides behind nearly straight, rounded anteriorly and con- 

 stricted near the apex, it is of an infuscate testaceous colour, closely 

 punctured and covered with pale fulvous pubescence. The elytra are 

 much wider than the thorax at the base : the sides very gradually 

 rounded and narrowed towards, and with a slight sinuation just in front 

 of, the apices, each being obtusely rounded ; they are a little depressed 

 at the base and bear distinctly-punctured, well-defined striae, the fourth, 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh interstices are confluent and somewhat elevated 

 behind ; there are three ill-defined irregular curved fasciae, and two 

 apical spots, fuscous, the ground-colour is testaceous, and they are 

 clothed with fine short yellowish pubescence. 



The legs are pale fusco-testaceous ; the femora strongly dentate 

 below; tibise flexuous ; tarsi stout. The scutellum is elongate. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2 lines ; rost., f line. 



I found my only specimen at Tairua. The species is very distinct, 

 with a long slender beak, and remarkable on account of the strongly and 

 acutely dentate thighs. 



Praolepra. 



Pascoe. 



I have an insect so named, but apparently not described, by Mr. 

 Pascoe, having a long slender cylindrical arcuated beak, with straight 

 scrobes beginning just in front of the middle and terminating at the eyes; 

 these are contiguous to the thorax, not prominent, moderately facetted, 

 rounded and somewhat encroached upon in front. The antenna are 

 rather long and slender, with a seven-jointed funiculus, the first joint is 

 largest ; club large, ovate. Thorax relatively small, about as broad as it 

 is long, contracted in front, with the base and apex truncate. Scutellum 

 small. Elytra large, moderately convex transversely, gradually deflexed 

 behind ; they are much wider than the thorax at the base, with oblique 

 humeral angles, from thence they are very gradually attenuated. The 

 legs are of moderate length ; the anterior femora are almost unarmed ; 

 but the others, particularly the posterior, are strongly dentate; the tibiae 

 are somewhat flexuose, and apparently unarmed at the apex ; the third 

 tarsal joint is truly bilobed. 



80 1. P. squamosa, Pascoe ; MS. Rostrum reddish behind, 

 pitchy in front, and indistinctly grooved longitudinally. The thorax is 

 a little convex, fuscous, but rather densely covered with greyish scales, 

 so that the ground-colour is most apparent on the dorsal line, and an 

 elongate spot near each side. The elytra are curvedly compressed 

 laterally near the middle, below the disc, and this part is dark in colour ; 

 they are greenish-testaceous, clothed like the thorax, bear a few short 

 erect white setae ; the disc terminates at each side near the posterior 



