OF NEW ZEALAND. 505 



of the specimens, longish, suberect, whitish scales are mixed with the 

 grey. It is very doubtful whether the insect described by Schoenherr, 

 and figured here, be the Fabrician species. 



NOTE. I have placed the species with Mitrastethus ; it has been 

 referred by White and Schoenherr to Dryopthorus, by Olivier to Calan- 

 dra, and by Fabricius to Curculio. Its habits I indicated in vol. ix. 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., p. 369. 



Paranomocerus. 



Redtenbacher ; Voy. Novara. 



Corpus oblongum, subdepressum, densissime squamosum, alatum ; 

 caput parvum, vertice valde convexo, rostra thoracis longitudine, basin 

 versus sensim dilatato et depresso. Antenna elongatse, tenues, scapo 

 sensim clavato thoracisque marginem anticum attingente, funiculo sep- 

 tem-articulato, articulis duobus primis valde elongatis, longitudine 

 sequalibus, sequentibus brevibus, clava elongata, sub-cylindrica, articulo 

 primo funiculi vix breviore, exarticulata. Oculi laterales, rotundati, vix 

 convexi. Thorax conicus, latitudine basali duplo fere longior, basi sub- 

 recte truncatus, margine antico in medio rotundato producto lateraliter 

 vix lobatus, dorso depresso, longitudinaliter concavo. Scutellum parum 

 rotundum. Elytra oblongo-quadrata, basi thorace parum latiora, apice 

 compressa et simul obtuse rotundata, anum obtegentia. Prosternum 

 profundissime canaliculatum, canali alte marginato, mesosterno excavato 

 terminate. Metasternum subelongatum. Abdomen segmentis duobus 

 primis elongatis, longitudine aequalibus, secundo tertio quartoque simul 

 sumtis vix brevioribus. Pedes tenues, antici parum longiores, femoribus 

 sub-linearibus, muticis, tibiis rectis, apice unco valido armatis, tarsis 

 articulo tertio dilatato, valde bilobo, unguiculis liberis, simplicibus. 



898. P. spiculus, Redten. ; Voy. Novara. Nigro-fuscus, squamo- 

 sitate densa cinerea et fusca variegatus ; thorace sex-, elytris plurimis- 

 tuberculatis, tuberculis elytrorum inaequalibus, fuscis, mediis cristam 

 obliquam formantibus. 



Long, (ex rost), 2f-i J. 



NOTE. I found this species at Tairua. In the male the antennae 

 are as long as the body, in the other sex not half that length ; the 

 is usually the larger. 



899. P. maurus, n.s. Body black, tarsi red, antennae pitchy-red ; 

 covered with black and testaceous scales, those of the former colour 

 predominating on the dorsal space of the thorax, a broad linear longitu- 

 dinal space on each elytron, the basal half of the rostrum and the front 

 legs. Rostrum large, shining-black, its apical half punctulate, the base 

 indistinctly quadri-sulcate. Prothorax of the normal conical form, with 

 a bare dorsal line, its apex bi-crested, and the surface uneven but desti- 

 tute of distinct tubercles. Each elytron bears an elongate longitudinal 

 elevation near the base, and two longitudinal rows of setose elevations 

 between the middle and the posterior declivity, and between these a 



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