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more fine setoe than are visible above. Legs clothed with fine scales and 

 short pallid bristles ; tibia bent, cavernose at apex. 



Length (rost. excl.), almost 3 lines ; breadth, \\. 



My specimen was discovered at Wellington by Mr. P. Stewart. 



1234. A. angUStula, n.s. Antenna reddish; basal joint of funi- 

 culus largest, yet not greatly exceeding the following in length ; joints 

 2-7 differ but little from one another, each slender at the base. Rostrum 

 obscure-red, with a fine keel on the middle, covered with griseous scales. 



Head broader than beak ; squamose. Prothorax cylindric, longer than 

 broad, but little wider than head, widest before the middle ; it is so 

 densely covered with scales, small, rounded, pallid ones, that no punc- 

 tures can be detected. Scutellum distinct, triangular. Elytra much 

 longer than broad, wider than thorax, elongate-oblong ; they are punc- 

 tate-striate, and the suture and alternate interstices appear a little elevated 

 behind ; they are covered with small, round, black, white, yellowish, and 

 pale-brown scales ; the whitish ones form an obsolete band near the hind 

 thighs, the darkest are on the disc, but none are so disposed as to form 

 well-defined marks ; the ground-colour is dark. Legs obscure-red, clothed 

 with fine greyish scales and setae. 



Resembles the preceding species structurally, but more elongate, the 

 thorax being notably narrower, and the elytral angles less prominent. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2\ lines; breadth, scarcely i. 



Described from one example, communicated by Mr. P. Stewart, 

 Wellington. 



Empseotes (P. 441). 



1235. E. apicalis, n.s. Colour dark infuscate-red ; tarsi dilute. 



Rostrum stout, covered with small, flat, greyish-yellow scales. Pro- 

 thorax about as long as broad, cylindric, slightly emarginate near the 

 scutellum, a little constricted anteriorly, its punctation completely con- 

 cealed by the dense squamosity, which is very much the same as that on 

 the head and beak. Elytra with oblique shoulders, much broader than 

 the thorax behind them, the sides nearly parallel, narrowed and declivous 

 posteriorly; apex pointed, but not acute ; they are punctate-striate, closely 

 covered with pale brownish-grey scales on the back, but with pale gri- 

 seous ones behind, and many bent setae. The legs are clothed in the same 

 way. Antennas, rather short ; scape squamose, with a few setae in front ; 

 funiculus finely hispid ; club pubescent. The under-side is clothed like 

 the upper. 



Unlike its allies ; unusually smooth, being quite destitute of tubercular 

 elevations ; the elytral sculpture cannot be seen until the derm has been 

 deprived of its scales ; the pallid squamosity covers the whole apical por- 

 tion of the elytra, and the absence of a scale here and there gives the 

 prothorax a somewhat spotted appearance. 



Length (rost. excl.), 4 lines; breadth, if. 



Three specimens have been received from F. H. Meinertzhagen, 

 Esq., of Waimarama, Napier, all broken, the other two smaller than that 

 indicated above. 



