OF NEW ZEALAND. 



797 



Group SCOLOPTEEID^E. 



Amylopterus. 



1420. A.^ prasinus, n.s. Elongate ; head and thorax 

 obscurely coloured, the latter greenish, elytra and most of the legs 

 green, tarsi and antennae rufo-testaceous, club infuscate. 



Nostrum cylindrical, sparingly clothed with yellow hairs, 

 punctated. Head punctate, clothed like the beak, twice as broad 

 as the latter ; eyes large and prominent. Prothorax conical, about 

 as long as broad, its punctation coarse but rather shallow and 

 distant, densely covered with golden-coloured scales and hairs, those 

 near the sides more scattered and darker. Scutellum oblong, nearly 

 smooth. Elytra sub-triangular, elongate, twice as broad as thorax 

 at the base, shoulders obliquely rounded, prominent, not hooked ; 

 they are -striate-punctate, and each bears a laterally-compressed 

 acute tubercular elevation in line with the hind thighs, and another 

 more protuberant one near the apex ; they are sparingly clothed 

 with fine golden-yellow hairs, and, 011 each elytron, with three 

 patches of depressed yellow scales, the largest between the spiniform 

 elevations, the smallest near the scutelluni. Antennae, elongate, scape 

 slender, clavate at the extremity, with fuscous hairs ; funiculus 

 similarly clothed, second joint elongate, cylindric, about as long as 

 third and fourth conjointly ; club elongate-oval, 3-jointed, pubescent. 

 Legs long and stout ; posterior femora greatly produced and dentate 

 below ; tibia of the same pair strongly arcuated. 



Differs from Ancistropterus in having a broader head, and, conse- 

 quently, more widely separated eyes, in the humeral angles not being 

 spiniform, in the presence of four elytral tubercles above, and in the 

 structure of the hind legs. 



Length (rost. incl.), 2J-2J- lines ; breadth, f-i line. 



I detected four individuals of this charming weevil on Panax 

 anomalum on the Waitakerei Range. 



Group-CRYPTORHYNCHIDJE. 



Acalles (P. 488)- 



1421. A. griseilS, n.s. Ovate, moderately convex; picebus, 

 beak shining pitchy-red ; clothing dense, consisting of depressed 

 griseous and fuscous scales and setulae. 



Hostrum stout, as long as thorax, smooth on the middle, with 

 fine elongate punctures on the sides and scales behind. Prothorax 

 as long as broad, contracted in front, its sides obtusely rounded, 

 base feebly sinuated, coarsely and closely punctated. Scutellum 

 distinct, squamose. Elytra but little broader than thorax at the 

 base, humeral angles oblique, sides sub-parallel, narrowed behind 

 the posterior femora, on nearly the same plane as the thorax, 

 seemingly striate-punctate, the interstices more or less ridged, the 

 middle one of each most elevated behind ; the fuscous scales form 

 small irregular spots. Antenna shining, scape half the length of the 

 funiculus, the two basal joints of the latter elongate and nearly 

 equal ; they are implanted just behind the middle of the snout. 

 Legs robust, covered with scales and setulae. 



