494 COLEOPTERA 



behind, has a peculiarly flattened aspect; each elytron bears six or seven 

 rows of coarse punctures which are most regular on the posterior 

 declivity, they are quite destitute of tubercular elevations, and are clothed 

 with fine yellowish scales. 



Legs robust, dark red in colour, and covered with coarse yellowish 

 scales and setae. 



The beak and thorax are blackish, the elytra, antennae, and tarsi 

 are red. 



Length, i \ line ; breadth, nearly f. 



The insect has been measured from the eyes to the apex, and across 

 the summit of the elytral declivity. It somewhat resembles Tychanus 

 ferrugatus, but is more convex, flatter behind, and very much smaller. 



I found my specimen near Whangarei Heads. 



878. A. SCituS, n.s. Elliptical, convex ; black, its clothing varie- 

 gate, the antennae and tarsi red. 



Antenna inserted before the middle of the beak, elongate, the scape 

 a little shorter than the funiculus, club oval. Rostrum long, arcuated, 

 parallel, slightly rufescent, almost smooth along the middle, punctate 

 laterally, squamose at the base. Prothorax about as long as broad, con- 

 stricted anteriorly, its sides rounded ; its surface is coarsely punctured, 

 covered with depressed ferruginous and greyish scales, and besides 

 bears many short, coarse, fuscous setae. Elytra obovate, narrowed and 

 deflexed posteriorly, coarsely striate-punctate in front, and clothed with 

 fine, chiefly ferruginous, scales ; in line with the hind thighs there is a 

 conspicuous transversal space covered with minute, pale-testaceous 

 scales bordered laterally with similarly coloured setae, whereon there are 

 no perceptible punctures ; there is a pale ferruginous ^spot on each 

 shoulder, two pitchy-brown setose spots behind the base, and two dark 

 marks, one before the other behind the cream-coloured posterior space ; 

 besides these, there are a few greyish scales, and coarse erect setae 

 border the sides and apices. 



Legs coarsely setose ; the posterior tibiae obliquely-truncated and 

 dilated at the apex, and the terminal joint of the tarsi stout. 



Length (rost. incl.), if-2 lines ; breadth, f- f. 



I found two specimens, one mutilated, at Parua. 



Acallopais. 



Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 



Rostrum validum, apicem versus gradatim incrassatum ; scrobes 

 laterales. Antenna pone medium rostri insertse ; scapus brevis ; funi- 

 culus ad clavam gradatim crassior. Oculi majusculi, grosse granulati. 

 Prothorax basi latior. Scutellum nullum. Elytra breviter sub-cordata. 

 Rima pectoralis ampla, apice cavernosa. Femora crassa, infra canalicu- 

 lata ; tibia rectae, apice uncinatse tarsi articulo penultimo bilobo ; 

 ungues divergentes. 



The pectoral canal is large, terminated by the raised border of the 

 mesosternum, forming a well-marked cavity, to which, as I have ex- 

 plained, I apply the term cavernosa, whether the raised portion is erect 



