OF NEW ZEALAND. 793 



Elytra oviform, slightly tri-sinuated at base, where they scarcely ex- 

 ceed the thorax in breadth. Femora clavate beyond the middle ; 

 tibia flexuous, without hooks, sub-nmcronate and concave at the 

 apex ; tarsi with brush-like soles, their two basal joints obconical, 

 penultimate bi-lobed, claws simple, divergent. Abdomen with two 

 large basal segments, having their suture sinuous, third and fourth 

 very short. Body moderately convex, sub-ovate, with minute 

 scales. 



A form like Inophlceus, with the apex of the rostrum* more ex- 

 panded below T the antenna! insertion, the scrobes much more oblique, 

 and the extremity of the tibiae less produced, &c. 



1414. P. rugOSUS, n.s. Opaque, pitchy -black, tarsi and an- 

 tennas rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed with minute, obscure, testaceous 

 scales ; sub-ovate, moderately convex. 



Bostrum as long as thorax, broadly but not deeply hollowed 

 above, closely and very minutely punctated, with some coarser punc- 

 tures disposed in rows. Prothorax sub-cylindrical but not narrow, 

 widest before the middle and a little narrowed posteriorly ; nearly 

 plane but rather uneven above, with a frontal and two obtuse dorsal 

 elevations, a few minute granules, and entirely covered with very 

 dense but excessively fine punctures. Scutellum triangular. Elytra 

 ovate, with nearly vertical sides, a little convex, gradually deflexed 

 apically, their sculpture more or less rugose ; they bear some small 

 granules near the base, are irregularly punctured, with indications 

 of striae ; there are two callosities behind, and many smaller ones on 

 the sides. Antenna with a few straw-coloured hairs, the two basal 

 joints of the funicle longast, joints 3-7 longer than broad, obconical. 

 Underside obscure-black, apparently almost nude and impunctate. 

 Legs and tarsi hispid. The body usually covered with a fusco-testa- 

 ceous scaly deposit. 



Length (rost. excl.), 5f lines ; breadth, 2^ 



[Two specimens have been transmitted from " The Brothers" 

 (Cook Strait), by Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager. 



Group-C YLINDRORHINID^E . 



Empseotes (p. 44 1 )- 



1415. E. amotllS, n.s. Sub-ovate, broadest near posterior 

 femora, rather plane ; piceous, covered with depressed, variegated, 

 but chiefly greyish, scales and decumbent setae ; funiculus and tarsi 

 red* 



Bostrum short, indistinctly carinated, densely squamose. Pro- 

 thorax slightly longer than broad, sub-cylindrical, uneven, punc- 

 tate, not tuberculate. Elytra rather short than broad, nearly ver- 

 tical behind, uneven, with four callosities behind the posterior 

 femora, and two robust protuberant processes directed backwards> 

 on nearly the same level as the disc, on the summit of the pos- 

 terior declivity; apices not projecting. Legs squamose. Scape 

 scaly ; funicle pilose, its second joint quite as long as the first. 

 4 PT. in. 



