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before the middle, and its sculpture consists entirely of coarse, 

 transversal rugosities. 



Length (rost. incl.), i lines; breadth, f. 



Mokohinau Island : Mr. P. Sandager. 



Group BRACHYDERID^E. 



Geochus (p- 445)- 



1672. G. rugulpSUS, n.s. Sub-opaque, fuscous, sometimes 

 rufescent, tarsi ferruginous, antennae rufo-testaceous, club piceous, 

 bearing yellowish, depressed and erect, scale-like setae. 



Rostrum contracted behind, dilated in front, opaque, pitchy, 

 rough, setigerous ; eyes depressed, coarsely facetted. Prothorax 

 coarsely punctate. Elytra almost striate-punctate, the intervals 

 between the punctures transversely elevated. Underside piceous. 



Similar to G-. politus in form, but with a blackish club, rugose 

 elytra, and the abdomen scarcely punctate. 



Length (rost. incl.), line; breadth, f. 



Mokohinau Island : Mr. Sandager. 



Nicaeana (p. 4 2 7)- 



1673. N. Cinerea, n.s. Piceous, densely covered with small, 

 depressed, greyish and brassy scales and erect hairs ; punctation of 

 beak and thorax concealed by the squamosity. 



Antenna infuscate-red. Elytra almost striate-punctate,, the 

 suture raised posteriorly. Underside punctate, clothed with grey 

 hairs. 



Differs from N. modes ta in coloration, but like it in form and 

 structure. 



Length (rost. incl.), 2 lines; breadth, f. 



Mount Maungatua, Otago : Mr. S. W. Fulton. 



Group-RHYPAROSOMIDJE. 



Erymneus (p. 435)- 



1674. E. longulus, n.s. Elongate ; anterior tarsi obscure 

 pitchy-red ; body piceous, clothed with small, reddish-brown, de- 

 pressed scales, and coarse, mostly testaceous, setiform scales on the 

 elevated portions. 



Rostrum as long as thorax, arcuate, widest in front, tricarinate 

 before, bicarinate behind, the middle, with four median and one 

 ocular crests ; mandibles prominent, bifid at apex ; vertex convex. 

 Antenna inserted just before the middle, hispid ; two basal joints of 

 f uniculus equal, the following three small and equal ; sixth larger 

 than fifth, seventh still larger ; club short, sub-orbicular. Prothorax 

 rather longer than broad, with coarse distant punctures and three 

 longitudinal elevations, sides uneven, middle of base depressed. 

 Elytra sub-oviform, scutellar region depressed, base arcuate, almost 

 striate-punctate, studded with some minute black tubercles, with 

 three more or less obvious humeral elevations on each elytron, and 



