1248 COLEOPTEKA 



subtiliter punctate ; elytris profunde striatis, apice declivo margi- 

 nato. 



Long., 3-3nim. 



This species is remarkable by its large globose head, so that the 

 rostrum is only as long as it ; the rostrum and the head behind the 

 eyes are finely punctate, the inflated vertex impunctate. The thorax 

 behind is almost broader than the elytra, greatly narrowed in front, 

 there constricted, smooth in front of the constriction ; elsewhere 

 closely and finely punctate, with more or less abbreviate smooth line 

 on the disc. Elytra very deeply striated, the striae coarsely and 

 densely punctured, so that the punctures are confluent, the inter- 

 stices narrow, indistinctly seriately punctate ; the apex rather ab- 

 ruptly declivous and distinctly marginate. Legs red. 



Picton. Helms; three examples ; all, I think, of the female sex. 



OBS. This is very nearly allied to No. 1549 (P. macrocephalum) . 

 T. B. 



2198. P. porcatum, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 431.) Subcylindricum, piceum, nitidum ; capite pone 

 oculos strangulate, his prominulis ; prothorace dense fortissime 

 punctate ; elytris profunde striatis, apice marginato. 



Long., rostr. incl., 3|-4mm. 



This is readily distinguished by the extremely coarse thoracic 

 punctuation, which extends much in front of the anterior constric- 

 tion. Rostrum moderately stout, cylindric, more than half as long 

 as the thorax, punctate, rugose between the eyes, these abruptly 

 prominent, vertex perfectly smooth, quite as long as the length of 

 the eye ; antennal insertion considerably behind the middle. 

 Thorax very elongate, very much narrowed to the front, very 

 coarsely and densely punctate, with a strong constriction a consider- 

 able distance behind the front margin. Elytra parallel-sided, at the 

 apex distinctly but not broadly margined, deeply striate, the striae 

 bearing very coarse punctures, which are only imperfectly separated 

 from one another ; interstices narrow, not punctate ; underside very 

 coarsely punctate. The male has the rostrum in front of the an- 

 tennae rather shorter and broader, the base of the abdomen and 

 apical portion of the sternum much depressed. 



Dunedin, Button ; Greymouth, Reitter; Picton, Helms. 



This is no doubt allied to P. sculpturatum, Broun, but differs 

 from the description by the differently- sculptured less-rugose ros- 

 trum, the absence of any hairs, and other particulars, I have seen 

 only one male, the example from Dunedin, but I have no doubt it is 

 the same species as the Greymouth female ; the two examples from 

 Picton are a smaller variety of the female, having shorter elytra and 

 more densely placed smaller punctures in the striae, but are, I think, 

 really the same species. 



2199. P. COnfertum, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 431.) Angustulum, subdepressum, nigricans ; capite, rostro, 

 antennis, pedibusque runs, elytris circa humeros fusco-rufis; rostro 



