908 COLEOPTERA " 



Mr. S. W. Fulton sent me a specimen which he captured on a 

 Veronica buxifolia, on Mount Maungatua, Taieri. 



Praolepra (p. 454)- 



1622. P. fultoni, n.s. Oviform, convex, sub-opaque, pale 

 brown ; legs, beak, and antennae fusco-testaceous ; covered with 

 greyish, elongate, depressed scales and coarse erect setae. 



Bostrum cylindrical, arched with more or less distinct grooves and 

 punctures. Antenna furnished with fine grey hairs, rather stout ; 

 scape thickened apically ; basal joint of funiculus largest, second and 

 third longer than broad and nearly equal, joints 4-7 sub-moniliform, 

 fifth and seventh transverse ; club oblong-oval, articulate, pubescent. 

 Prothorax transverse, rounded laterally, constricted in front, base 

 sub-truncate ; distinctly but not closely punctated, the scales dis- 

 posed transversely. Scutellum small. Elytra sub-oblong, striate- 

 punctate, interstices simple. Legs stout; femora with elongate, flat, 

 grey scales, clavate and more or less dentate below ; tibiae with fine 

 grey setae, a little flexuous, slightly mucronate at the extremity. 

 Underside fuscous, not distinctly punctated, clothed with whitish 

 hair-like scales. 



This species, like P. squamosa, has the apex of the prosternum 

 obliquely emarginated to within a short distance of the coxae ; the 

 two obtuse protuberances on the summit of the hind slope of the 

 elytra are not so prominent ; the thorax is shorter ; the rostrum is 

 stouter, shorter, and not at all attenuated apically ; the head is 

 immersed up to the eyes ; the antennae are shorter and more robust ; 

 and the hind-body is shorter and more gradually narrowed from the 

 base. Sometimes the wing-cases are variegated with indistinct, dark, 

 irregular marks. 



Length (rost. incl.), ij- lines; breadth, nearly f. 



Taken off creepers, West Taieri bush, Otago, by Mr. S. W. 

 Fulton. 



Group SCOLOPTERID^E. 



Scolopterus (P. 472)- 



1623. S. abnOFUlis, n.s. Shining, beak and thorax rufo- 

 piceous, elytra and legs obscure-ferruginous ; antennae rufo-piceous, 

 but becoming darker towards the extremity. 



Hostrum smooth along the middle, elsewhere more or less 

 punctured and irregularly carinated ; the margins of the scrobes 

 sharply defined and elevated. Eyes rather small, somewhat rounded, 

 moderately prominent. Head broader than snout, punctate. Pro- 

 thorax quite as long as broad, narrowed and very slightly constricted 

 apically, punctate-rugose, more finely and closely in front. Scutellum 

 oblong. Elytra with rows of small punctures, humeral angles oblique 

 and obtusely prominent, not spiniform ; posterior protuberances not 

 much elevated and bearing short, black hairs, the intermediate 

 space impunctate but finely strigose. Legs stout, anterior femora 

 clavate, the others compressed and angulated underneath, the hind 

 pair dentiform ; tibiae slightly flexuous. 



