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curved suture. Mesosternum horizontal, or nearly so, large, attaining 

 the level of the front coxae. 



Body oval, slightly pubescent, and partially squamose. 



846. P. SUlcatUS, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 15. Deep 

 pitchy-brownish-black ; thorax above with three distinct brownish-ashy 

 lines, the lateral ones broadest and somewhat irregular ; these lines are 

 formed by distinct coloured scales ; elytra ribbed, each with at least six 

 raised ribs, two of which meet at the end, some of them have erect 

 scales along the irregular edge, between each is a line of impressed 

 points, the sides of the elytra at the broadest part are very hairy ; legs 

 punctate and like the under surface of the body, with brownish-ashy 

 hairs, longest on the posterior part of the tibiae and tarsi. 



Length, about 4 lines. 

 New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair). 



847. P. granulatUS, n.s. This species is intermediate in form 

 between P. sulcatus and P. barbifrons, being narrower than the former, 

 but shorter and broader than the latter. Antenna ferruginous, with the 

 basal joint of the funiculus stout, but slender at its point of insertion in 

 the scape ; second about as long as the first but more slender than it. 

 Head and rostrum pitchy, with a depression on the vertex almost con- 

 cealed by depressed griseous setae, or scales, and a smaller one between 

 the eyes ; the surface is granulated, the granules closer and more con- 

 fluent on the rostrum, in front of which there is a smooth longitudinal 

 line, and at the sides and in front a few yellowish hairs. The thorax is 

 fuscous, not quite so wide as the elytra ; the sides are rounded towards 

 the front, and abruptly narrowed near the apex, which is deeply emar- 

 ginated ; there is a smooth discoidal line from base to apex, and a trans- 

 verse one in front, the rest of the surface being coarsely punctate, and 

 more or less covered with scale-like setae, which give it a rather granu- 

 lated aspect. Scutellum elongate. The elytra are fuscous, broadest 

 behind the base, and narrowed posteriorly; each bears eight longitudinal 

 ridges, the two outer obsolete, the inner merely sutural ; the second and 

 fourth become indistinct posteriorly ; the third, fifth, and sixth, bent at 

 the end : all more or less granulated and setose; the second and fourth 

 quite tubercular near the middle ; the furrows have only indistinct 

 punctation, and the suture is close throughout, whereas in P. sulcatus 

 the punctures are coarse, and the suture divaricate towards the apex. 

 In all other respects the two species are alike. 



In Psepholax the scrobes are broad, and directed backwards to the 

 lower part of the eye ; the tibiae terminate externally in a strong calcar, 

 behind which the tarsus is inserted. 



Length, 3 j lines. 



I cut some specimens of this species out of Fagus at Tairua; 

 P. sulcatus I have found in Leptospernum. 



848. P. COmutuS, n.s. Pitchy brown, sparsely clothed with 

 pale yellow setae ; legs and antennae pitchy red. 



