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moderately long and stout, very gradually narrowed behind, and finely 

 and rugosely sculptured ; the antennae are inserted at the middle. The 

 eyes are distinct but not very prominent. The prothorax is sub- 

 depressed, rather short (comparatively), yet much longer than it is 

 broad, triangularly-ovate, rounded towards the base, rather abruptly, and 

 more gradually towards the constricted apex ; its punctation is not very 

 close on the disc, and there is there an abbreviated, slightly elevated, 

 smooth line. The elytra are wider than the thorax, gradually rounded 

 behind and transversely depressed in front and behind the middle ; they 

 are striated, but the punctation of the striae is not very evident, and the 

 interstices (apparently) bear a row of punctures and fine transverse 

 impressions, so that their sculpture seems to be rugulose, the three (on 

 each elytron) nearest the suture reach the apex, and the others being 

 abbreviated leave an obvious depression near the apex. The penulti- 

 mate tarsal joint is not much larger than the second. 



Length, if line. 



I found one individual only on Mount Manaia, Whangarei Harbour. 

 In the structure of the antennae it approaches P. remotum, but recedes 

 from that and all the previously described species in colour, clothing, 

 and form. 



916. P. vestita, n.s. This insect more nearly resembles P. 

 planiuscula than any other described species. 



The body is of a brownish-red colour and sparingly clothed with fine 

 elongate, but distinct, yellow hairs. The rostrum is moderately long and 

 stout, its anterior half a little broader than the posterior, and its whole 

 surface, as well as that of the head, is distinctly and somewhat rugosely 

 sculptured, but without any impression behind ; the eyes are prominent 

 and situated in front. The antennae are stout and red, with the club 

 paler. Prothorax long, sub-depressed, triangularly-ovate, being widest 

 behind the middle, a good deal and rather abruptly narrowed behind, 

 but much more gradually anteriorly, with a constriction near its apex ; 

 its surface is coarsely and rugosely punctured. The elytra are elon- 

 gate, sub-parallel, being scarcely narrowed till near the apex ; the 

 narrowed apical portion is of the same length as their declivous part ; 

 they bear distinctly punctured striae, and the interstices also have a row 

 of smaller punctures on each. 



The antenna are rather long and stout, the straight scape is shorter 

 than the funiculus, the second joint of which is scarcely larger than the 

 third. 



Length, ij line. 



Described from a single individual found in the forest at Parua, near 

 Whangarei Harbour. 



917- P. WOllastonianum, Sharp; Trans. Entom, Soc., 1878, 

 Part i., p. 9. Perelongatum, angustum, subdepressum, subnitidum, 

 subtiliter punctatum, piceo-ferrugineum ; oculis a collo remotis ; pro- 

 thorace sat elongate, antrorsum fortiter angustato, ad marginem ante- 

 riorem levissime constricto, crebre subtiliter punctato, dorso piano ; 



