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declivity in a small tubercular elevation ; their sculpture is not very 

 obvious, but consists of rows of fine punctures without regular strise. The 

 legs are of a variegated testaceous colour, and more or less squamose. 

 The antenncE have a slender scape, are reddish-testaceous, with the club- 

 infuscate, and, except the scape, pilose. 



Length (rost. incl.), if line ; breadth, f . 



I found the species at Tairua. 



802. P. infuSCUS, n.s. Very similar to the preceding, with a 

 shorter rostrum, more distinctly grooved and carinated, the antennal 

 insertion near the apex. Prothorax convex, rather longer than that of 

 P. squamosa, the sides are nearly straight behind and narrowed in front; 

 its surface is punctate and densely covered with greyish scales. The 

 elytra are, like those of the typical species, rather long and broad, but 

 are not distinctly incurved laterally, and their sculpture is quite con- 

 cealed by their clothing of grey and brownish scales and pallid setae. 

 The legs are similar in structure in both species, but in the present one 

 the tibiae are broadly annulated with brown. 



Length (rost. incl.), i J ; breadth, J line. 

 This species also occurs at Tairua. 



Aneuma. 



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



Rostrum cylindricum, tenue, arcuatum ; scrobes antemedianse, late- 

 rales. Scapus oculum attingens ; funiculus articulo primo elongate, 

 crasso ; clava distincta. Oculi rotundati, fortiter granulati. Prothorax 

 transversus, basi truncatus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Elytra elongato- 

 cordata, prothorace multo latiora. Ptctus antice emarginato-canalicu- 

 latum. Coxa anticse contiguse, intermedise modice approximatae : 

 femora incrassata, infra dente minuto instructa ; tibia breviusculae, 

 rectae : tarsi normales. Abdomen segmento secundo haud ampliato, 

 duobus sequentibus conjunctim longiore. Corpus pilosum. 



In this genus the head is deeply inserted into the prothorax, and, 

 although it is much bent inwards, the rostrum is not received in the 

 pectoral canal, the latter being bounded behind by the anterior coxae. 

 The presence of this canal prevents the genus being associated with 

 Erirhinus, to which otherwise it might have been referred. 



803. A. fulvipes, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jany., 1876. 

 A. ovalis, supra subtestacea, nigrescenti-nebulosa, pilis griseis sat sparse 

 vestita : rostro prothorace breviore, basi lineis elevatis instructo ; anten- 

 nis subtestaceis, apicem versus infuscatis ; funiculo articulis secundo, 

 tertio quartoque gradatim brevioribus, tribus ultimis transversis ; pro- 

 thorace utrinque rotundato, leviter punctulato ; elytris confertim striato- 

 punctatis, interstitiis convexis ; corpore infra piceo-testaceo ; pedibus 

 fulvescentibus, sparse pilosis. 



Long., \\ lin. 



Christchurch (C. M. Wakefield). 



