552 COLEOPTERA 



eyes, and in the middle showing a small oblong depression. Thorax not 

 so long as broad, a good deal narrowed in front, its disc forming an 

 indistinct elevation or callosity ; elytra with the basal part on each side 

 the scutellum much elevated, and behind the middle each bearing an 

 elevated tuft of pubescence ; they, like the rest of the surface, are 

 densely clothed with tomentum, and show a more or less distinct circu- 

 lar mark between the four elevations. Legs yellowish, and not very dis- 

 tinctly spotted. 



OBS. i. This species seems to agree very well with the characters 

 assigned by Lacordaire to the genus Cratoparis, except that it has the 

 rostrum decidedly contracted at its base. 



OBS. 2. The two individuals before me are very different in the 

 colour of their clothing, though they agree exactly in other respects. 



Two individuals have been sent to me by Captain Broun, from 

 Tairua ; I do not know their sex. 



973. A. OrnatUS, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat Hist, June, 1876. 

 A. capite breviter rostrato, oculis rotundatis convexis, robustus, latior, 

 elytris tuberculis sex magnis ; dense subtiliterque scabroso-punctatus, 

 olivaceus, subtus pallide tomentosus, in rostro et ad marginem anteriorem 

 prothoracis albido-tomentosus, tuberculis plus minusve aureo-vestitis ; 

 tibiarum apice tarsisque nigris ; antennis medio testaceis, basi apiceque 

 fuscis. 



Long, corp., 7^ mm. 



Rostrum short and very broad ; mandibles very broad ; antenna in- 

 serted at the sides in a large fovea, widely separated from the eye, which 

 is moderately large, very prominent, and nearly circular. Antennce 

 short ; the two basal joints rather slender, the second the longer ; of 

 three to eight each is a little shorter but not broader than its prede- 

 cessor ; nine to eleven forming a stout club, the eleventh being the 

 largest of the three. The rostrum bears a deep fovea on the middle ; 

 and round this is a space clothed with nearly white scales. Thorax 

 sinuate at the sides and much depressed at the front angles ; the carina 

 strongly elevated, very near to the elytra except in the middle, it forms 

 on each side a well-defined right angle, and is continued forwards, to 

 near the front ; the disc of the thorax bears two coarse tubercles or 

 angular elevations, it is of a greenish colour, densely and finely punc- 

 tured, and clothed with very fine hairs, with a dense patch of irregular 

 shape at the front angles nearly white, and at the base on each side of 

 the middle with some golden-coloured hairs, and with some similar ones 

 about the tubercles. Elytra with a very fine and dense punctation, 

 and with some rather larger punctures, which are indistinctly arranged 

 in rows ; each one bears three very large tubercles placed at a little dis- 

 tance from the suture, and each is notched at the base so as to expose 

 the rather large and elevated scutellum ; the suture just behind the 

 scutellum is elevated, and there is a fine but distinct sutural stria ; the 

 surface bears extremely short and fine and indistinct pale hairs, which 

 are more conspicuous about the tubercles than elsewhere. Under- 

 surface rather densely clothed with a pale grey pubescence. Legs pale 

 green, with the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi black. 



