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directed outward as a broad short process ; on each, just behind the 

 middle, close to the suture, is an obtuse elevation with a very minute 

 pencil of hairs on its summit ; these tubercles are laterally compressed, 

 and separated only by a narrow space. 



This fine and very distinct species was recently sent from Tairua by 

 Captain Broun, but only a single individual. I have, with much plea- 

 sure, named it in honour of its discoverer. The specimen is, I have no 

 doubt, a male. 



842. A. hOOhstetteri, Redten. ; Voy. Novara. Niger, squamo- 

 sitate cinereo-varia, hinc inde metallico-nitente obtectus; elytris humeris 

 bidentatis, pone medium tuberculo magno, conico instructis. 



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NOTE. I have not met with this species as yet. 



843. A. pilOSUS, n. s. Robust, convex, piceous, moderately shining, 

 rostrum, antennae, and tarsi fusco-rufous. Antenna slender, scape flex- 

 uose ; the first and second joints of the funiculus are of equal length, 

 the latter cylindrical, the former obconical, the others decrease in length ; 

 club ovate. Rostrum arcuated. Eyes prominent, distant from thorax ; 

 head finely granulated, rufo-piceous. Thorax conical, about as long as 

 it is broad, slightly constricted in front, the base almost bisinuated ; 

 there is a smooth, not very distinct, dorsal line, the rest of the surface 

 rugosely-granulated. Elytra sub-trigonal, the base emarginated for the 

 prothorax, the shoulders oblique, with lateral sub-acute tubercles ; the 

 hind tubercles are large, laterally-compressed, not crested, of a dark 

 red colour, and placed near the middle, rather distant from the suture ; 

 each bears nine strongly-punctured striae, the outer duplicated, the two 

 nearest the suture placed within the line occupied by the posterior 

 tubercle ; suture and apex ferruginous. The femora are slender at the 

 base and inflated near the end, the anterior sub-dentate, the others dis- 

 tinctly the posterior very strongly toothed ; the fore and intermediate 

 tibicR are flexuose, the posterior arcuated; colour rufo-piceous. The 

 basal and apical tarsal joints are rather slender and of nearly equal 

 length, either of them as long as the second and third conjointly; the 

 third is bi-lobed, the second triangular. Scutellum distinct. The body 

 is sparingly clothed with obscure pubescence. 



Length, 3^ lines (rost incl.). 



Of this species I have only seen one individual, which I found at 

 Tairua. 



Oropterus. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. 



Antenna longish, scape just reaching to the eye, straightish ; funi- 

 culus seven-jointed, the last joints nearly equal in thickness and close 

 together, club ovate, joints indistinct ; beak long, considerably curved, 

 cylindrical, a groove on the sides for the scape of antennas ; thorax 

 gradually wider behind, the sides nearly straight, in front and behind 

 abrupt ; elytra at the base straight, with a conical protuberance in the 



