1204 COLEOPTEEA 



Elytra elongate, oblong, shoulders obliquely contracted to width of 

 thorax and bearing erect scales, base sinuous or emarginate, scutel- 

 lar region depressed and projecting ; they have rows of large punc- 

 tures, usually hidden however, two pale crests on the middle, two 

 behind, two larger ones near each side and top of posterior slope, 

 which latter appears punctate-striate and bears numerous minute 

 tufts ; there are also, on the dorsum, many black wart-like eleva- 

 tions, minute near the suture but becoming larger towards the 

 uneven, almost vertical, sides ; there are, besides, two basal ridges 

 on each elytron, the outer, interrupted near the middle, extends 

 backwards about two-thirds of the entire length. Legs setose. 



The eyes are more obliquely longitudinally oval and nearer the 

 thoracic margin than in the typical species. 



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



Howick. Two examples. 



Cuneopterus. 



Nov. gen. 

 (Sharp; Trans. Boy. Dub. Soc., 1886, p. 428.) 



Rostrum elongatum, capite thoraeeque paulo longius, sat tenue, 

 valde arcuatum ; antenna paulo ante medium rostri insertae, graciles 

 scapo apice clavato, scrobes vagae, oculis hand attingentibus, his a 

 thorace sat remotis ; prothorax elongatus, conico-oblongus ; elytra 

 elongata, basi emarginato, apice truncato, lateribus late valdeque 

 deflexis ; scutellum nullum ; prosternum quam pronoto multo brevius, 

 lobis ocularibus nullis. Metasternum haud brevissimum ; abdomen 

 segmentis duobus basalibus valde elongatis, secundo quam tertio 

 quartoque simul sumptis fere duplo longiore, segmento ultimo sat 

 elongate ; pedes sat tenues, tibiae muticae ; tarsi parum elongati, 

 articulo tertio haud lobato. 



This is in its appearance amongst the most remarkable of the 

 New Zealand weevils, and should be placed near Phrynixus, Pascoe, 

 from which it differs by the elongate rostrum with less effaced scrobes, 

 the less abbreviate metasternum and third and fourth ventral seg- 

 ments, and still more importantly in the parts of the mouth, the 

 buccal cavity being larger, the peduncle rather elongate, the 

 mentum apparently quite absent, and all the stout rigid palpi quite 

 exposed ; the mandibles have no scar, the third tarsal joint is 

 deeply excavate above for the reception of the terminal joint, and its 

 hind margin is feebly emarginate ; there is no dilatation of the apices 

 of the tibia, and the tarsi are densely pubescent beneath. 



2132. C. COnicus, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Boy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 428.) Elongatus, anterius angustatus, posterius truncatus, 

 indumento fusco obtectus, supra subnodulosus. 



Long., absque rostro, llmm. ; rostr. incl., 14mm. 



Antenna slender, second and third joints very elongate, club 

 slender, acuminate-oval; rostrum glabrous in front, and very finely 

 punctate ; eyes small ; on either side of the upper face of the rostrum 



