OF NEW ZEALAND. 1183 



No. 1233 are elongate, the scape is narrow and fiexuous, and the 

 second joint of the funiculus is very slender at the base and more 

 swollen at the end than in T. antennalis. 



2097. T. diversa, n.s. Body covered with small, obscure 

 fusco-rufous and greyish scales, the latter sometimes assuming the 

 form of a fascia between the hind thighs ; setae fine, very fine in the 

 elytral punctures, most obvious on the raised parts, all yellowish, or 

 nearly so. 



The form is similar to that of T, variegata and Protophormus 

 gracilis, Sharp ; it is more robust, and, with the exception of very 

 moderately developed interstitial nodosities, almost devoid of in- 

 equalities of surface, the nodosities on the third interstices are in 

 advance of those on the fifth, the suture is raised behind, the apices 

 are only obtusely divergent and not prolonged. 



Length (rost. incl.), 3^; breadth, 1^-1^ lines. 



Mount Arthur. Collected by Mr. T. F. Cheeseman. 



2098. T. rufula, n.s. Subopaque, obscure-red, densely covered 

 with small, depressed, greyish-testaceous scales and setae. 



Rostrum rather shorter than the thorax, feebly unicarinate, its 

 apex nude and shining. Scape very gradually thickened, squamose 

 as well as setose ; basal joint of funiculus evidently longer than the 

 second ; club elongate, triarticulate, finely pubescent. Head finely 

 transversely wrinkled behind. Thorax rather longer than broad, 

 cylindrical, slightly dilated near the front ; punctate, somewhat 

 uneven, rugose. Scutellum small, raised, white. Elytra about 

 twice the breadth of the thorax, shoulders moderately rounded, a 

 little wider near the hind thighs, much narrowed and declivous 

 behind, apices divergent and subacuminate ; they are only slightly 

 convex, with series of rather elongate punctures, appearing more 

 sulciform at the sides ; third interstices a little elevated at the base 

 and forming a large nodosity on top of the declivity, the fifth with a 

 much less conspicuous nodiform elevation situated a little further 

 forward, and with a still smaller one on the slope itself. 



Agrees in some respects with Dr. Sh&Tp s Protophormus binodulus, 

 but there is a wide, though only slight, outward curvature behind 

 the eye representing an ocular lobe, and the front of the prostemum 

 is slightly incurved. The posterior corbels are moderately cavernous. 

 The second ventral segment is as long as the first at the side, the 

 third and fourth are very short. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2-| ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Wellington. One example, from Mr. Sandager. 



Epitimetes. 



2099. E, wakefieldi, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 420.) Niger, indumento sordido fusco-squamoso ; protho- 

 14 PT. v. 



