OF NEW ZEALAND. 527 



Microtribus. 



WolL ; Gen. Cosson. , p. 4 5 1 . 



Corpus fusiforme, subnitidum, fere calvum (solum versus elytrorum 

 basin pilis perpaucis obsitum), nigro-piceum ; capite convexo, rostro 

 longiusculo, graciusculo, parallelo, oculis parvis sed prominentibus, 

 superioribus (i.e., supra baud latissime separatis) \ prothorace magno, 

 ovali (ad latera valde et sequaliter rotundato), convexo, antice leviter 

 constricto ; elytris fusiformibus basi truncatis, ad basin prsesertim versus 

 humeros pilis perpaucis obsitis ; metasterno brevi, et postice (una cum 

 abdominis segm to - i mo -) paululum concavo. Antenna longiusculse, mox 

 ante medium rostri insertse ; funiculi (5-articulati, laxi) art - 2 do - sequen- 

 tibus conspicue longiore, reliquis tribus subglobosis, submoniliformibus, 

 vix crescentibus ; capitulo magno, valde abrupto. Pedes longiusculi, 

 crassiusculi ; tarsis art - i mo - vix elongate, 3 tio - multo latiore etprofunde 

 bilobo. 



(Genus inter formas proximas distinctum rostro longiusculo' sub- 

 gracili parallelo, oculis parvis sed valde conspicuis prominulis atque 

 supra minus late separatis, prothorace magno ovali in medio latiusculo, 

 elytris fusiformibus necnon ad basin pilis perpaucis obsitis, funiculi laxi 

 art - 2 do - sequentibus conspicue longiore, capitulo magno abrupto, tar- 

 sorumque art - 3 tio - lato ac valde profundeque bilobo). 



Habitat Novam Zealandiam. 



937. M. huttoni, WolL; Gen. Cosson., p. 605. M. fusiformis, 

 subnitidus, calvus (solum versus basin elytrorum, et ipsissimam pro- 

 thoracis, pilis perpaucis fulvescentibus parce obsitus), nigro-piceus ; capite 

 convexo, fere baud punctulato ; rostro (longiusculo, graciliusculo, paral- 

 lelo) distinctius sed parce punctulato; prothorace (ovali, convexo, utrin- 

 que aequaliter rotundato) sat grosse et profunde punctate ; elytris (fusi- 

 formibus basi truncatis) subalutaceis, paulo subtransversim malleato- 

 rugulosis et obsolete remoteque subundulatim subpunctulato-lineatis ; 

 antennis pedibusque longiusculis, picescentioribus. Subtus alutaceus et 

 parcissime punctatus (punctis in sternis maximis ac profundis, sed in 

 abdomine gradatim multo levioribus ac minutioribus). 



Long, corp., if lin. 



Habitat in Nova Zealandia, a Dom. F. W. Hutton deprehensus, 

 cujus in honorem nomen triviale proposui. 



Novitas. ' 



Nov. gen. 



Body convex, elongate, and elliptical, the thorax and elytra being 

 narrowed at their bases. 



Head a good deal immersed ; rostrum cylindrical, arcuated, rather 

 slender, as long as the prothorax, with the antennal insertion rather in 

 front of the middle; eyes distinct, not prominent, rather coarsely facetted, 

 nearly circular, situated at the base of the rostrum, and not very widely 

 separated above. Prothorax rather large, convex, ovate, with the base 



