1188 COLEOPTEEA 



2103. P. inflata, n.s. Convex, suboviform ; pale-castaneous, 

 sparingly clothed with minute decumbent, slender, yellow scales, 

 and upright, conspicuous, greyish setae. 



Rostrum with a smooth median line, but not markedly carinate. 

 Scape with slender scales and erect setae ; club ovate. Thorax 

 broader than long, rounded laterally, narrower in front than behind ; 

 not regularly punctured but having some rather large shallow cavities. 

 Elytra obtusely rounded at the sides ; striate-pimctate, almost 

 striate behind. 



No. 756 belongs to this genus, and must now become Pcelocharis 

 corpulenta. The elytra differ in form from those of the typical 

 species; their sculpture, though similar, is not so well marked, and 

 they bear many greyish, fine, hair-like setae near the top of the hind 

 slope ; the thorax, which is quite opaque, is more dilated medially, 

 appears free from punctuation, and bears many coarse dark setae ; 

 the scape is more incrassate towards the end, and is somewhat 

 bent. 



Length (rost. incl.), 1 lines; breadth, f line. 



Found on muddy ground, Mount Manaia, Whangarei Harbour. 



Protolobus. 



Nov. gen. 

 (Sharp; Trans. Boy. Dub. Soc., 1886, p. 422.) 



Corpus parvum, indumento obscuratum, setosum ; antenna scapo 

 crasso ; rostrum breve crassum, scrobes modice elongatae parum 

 distinctae ; coxae anteriores contiguae ; loba ocularia parum distincta. 



This is undoubtedly closely allied to the preceding genus (Aporo- 

 lobus), though the front coxcc, are in the normal condition as to con- 

 tiguity; the scrobes, too, are differently constructed, instead of 

 being broad and deep cavities tending directly upwards towards the 

 front and anterior part of the eye they are here finer, and their ter- 

 minal portion, though not very distinct, is directed towards the 

 undersurface of the head ; the metasternum is short, but not so 

 extremely short as it is in Aporolobus ; the other characters seem to 

 be much the same as in that genus. I refer two species to the 

 genus. Of the three individuals I have seen, two show the minute 

 palpi visible at the front of the mentum ; I am not sure whether 

 this may not be abnormal. 



2104. P. obscurus, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 422.) Longulus, indumento grisescente vestitus, parcius albido- 

 setosus ; prothorace elongate, subcylindrico. 



Long., 3mm. 



Antenna with the third joint only half as long as the second, 

 club elongate-oval, acuminate; eyes widely separated, and very little 

 visible from the front ; thorax elongate, subcylindric being nearly 

 straight at the sides; elytra rather narrow and elongate. No 

 sculpture can be seen owing to the dense exudation with which the 

 surface is covered ; but the setae project through this, and on the 



