1228 COLEOPTERA 



numerous and finer decumbent ones ; these latter abruptly cease, 

 leaving a large, conspicuously black space extending from each side 

 to near the suture ; on the apical declivity fine slender grey scales 

 cover five interstices, the suture being clothed in the same way nearly 

 as far as the middle of the dorsum. 



Kather larger than E. inter stitialis, similar in sculpture ; hind- 

 body materially different in form, being nearly quite oblong, there 

 being no perceptible narrowing until after the hind thighs, and even 

 then the apical portion is much less contracted ; only a small por- 

 tion of the pygidium. is uncovered, and that part is unusually broad ; 

 the eyes are a little further apart, and the depression between them 

 is less marked. 



Length (rost. excl.), If lines ; breadth, f line. 



Taieri, Otago. Two, from Mr. S. W. Fulton. 



Oreocharis (Gen., p. 864). 



2164. O. vittata, n.s. Elongate, subopaque, blackish, spar- 

 ingly clothed with slender, pale-cinereous hairs, and elongate de- 

 pressed grey scales, these latter forming three more or less regular 

 longitudinal streaks on the thorax and wing-cases, not, however, 

 sharply defined. 



Rostrum cylindrical, as long as thorax, closely and coarsely 

 punctate, and bearing some indistinct linear elevations ; antennal 

 insertion near the apex, scrobes visible from above ; palpi promi- 

 nent. Scape slightly longer than funiculus ; basal joint of the latter 

 largest, slender at base, second rather longer than third, joints 4-6 

 about equal, submoniliform ; club elongate, about as long as funi- 

 culus, densely pubescent, indistinctly articulated, so that the two 

 subequal basal joints appear shorter than the following ones. Head 

 narrowed towards the eyes, closely punctate. Thorax about as 

 long as broad, gradually narrowed towards the front, which is 

 slightly constricted; its surface closely punctate. Scutellum sub- 

 oblong. Elytra elongate, oblong, nearly truncate at base, they are 

 broadest there but scarcely twice the breadth of thorax and about 

 three times longer, apices individually rounded ; almost striate- 

 punctate, interstices strongly rugulose. Anterior femora not den- 

 tate, intermediate compressed, and strongly angulated below, the 

 extremity of the angle forming a prominent tooth, the posterior 

 normal, tibiae flexuose ; tarsi moderate, second joint of triangular 

 form, third cleft to its base with moderately broad lobes. 



The elongate contour approximates this species to No. 1267 

 (0. cyanea), but the thorax is relatively longer and narrower and 

 less constricted in front, and the rostrum also is longer. 



$ . Length (rost. incl.), 2-| lines ; breadth, line. 



Mount Arthur. Messrs. Cheeseman and Adams ; one example. 



2165. O. dealbata, n.s. Elongate, subopaque ; head, thorax, 

 legs, and antennal club blackish ; funiculus, knees, and tarsi infus- 

 cate ; elytra ferruginous ; sparsely clothed with slender greyish 





