1174 COLEOPTERA 



half the length of the body, filiform, bearing blackish hairs ; basal 

 joint pyriform ; second very small ; third more than half the length 

 of the fourth. Prothorax rather broader than long, its sides rounded, 

 apex truncate, base marginated and Insinuate ; disc a little uneven, 

 having a broad curved impression extending from side to side ; its 

 punctation similar to that of the head, but closer and more rugose 

 near the sides. Elytra elongate, broader than thorax at base, 

 gradually widened posteriorly ; densely and rugosely punctate. 

 Legs elongate, slender, tibial spurs minute. 



Dmfcmrfeinfuscate-black, head and prosternum fulvous ; clothed 

 with fine greyish hairs. 



Length, 2| lines; breadth, -J line. 



Waitakerei Eange. Two examples. 



OBS. No. 746 belongs to this genus, and therefore becomes 

 Techmessodes picticornis. Dr. Sharp (Trans. Ent. Soc., 1882, p. 87) 

 described a Techmessa distans, which I have no doubt is identical 

 with No. 746. The structural details had most likely been over- 

 looked by him. 



Group-OTIORHYNCHID^E. 



Cecyropa, 



Pascoe. 

 (Sharp; Trans. Boy. Dub. Soc., 1886.) 



Rostrum breve ; scrobes brevissimse, profundae ; antennarum 

 clava breviter ovalis. Tibiae anteriores apice extus dilatato. 



This is a very interesting form, reproducing in several respects 

 the characters of one of our most familiar European weevils formerly 

 assigned to Cneorhinus, but now correctly separated as the genus 

 Philopedon. It differs, however, in some very important particulars : 

 Philopedon is one of the genera where the mandibular scar is pre- 

 sent, but only in a rudimentary condition ; whereas in the New 

 Zealand insect it is apparently quite absent ; so that this genus can- 

 not be assigned to the Otiorhynchidce with certainty at present. 



The rostrum is very short and thick, and the short scrobes are 

 very deep ; they possess, however, at their upper and posterior part, 

 a slight prolongation directed towards the undersurface of the 

 rostrum, not towards the eye ; the mentum is rather small, but the 

 maxillae are not exposed ; the scape of the antennae is elongate, 

 reaching back behind the front margin of the thorax ; the eyes are 

 round, but little convex ; the thorax is without the slightest trace of 

 ocular lobes, but vibrissae are present in a rudimentary state ; the 

 prosternum is not eniarginate in front, and is of moderate length ; 

 the front coxce are rather small, and are contiguous, though their 

 cavities are very nearly separated ; middle coxae a good deal, hind 

 very widely, separated ; first ventral segment moderate, separated 

 from the second by a strongly-arcuated suture, which is obliterated 

 in the middle ; tarsi with the third joint bilobed; the first joint of 

 the front feet entirely concealed (viewed in front) by a prolonga- 



