OF NEW ZEALAND. 1258 



funiculus narrower than the first or third ; the club broader than in 

 E. littoralis. The scrobes are deep and directed downwards along 

 the front of the eyes. 



Length, If lines ; breadth, nearly f line. 



Otago. Mr. T. Chalmer. 



2207. E. parvulus, n.s. Shining, testaceous, legs and an- 

 tennas red. 



This is smaller and narrower than E. littoralis or E. cylindricus, 

 and differs therefrom in having the head and rostrum nearly smooth, 

 the few minute punctures that are visible are very distant from one 

 another ; the punctuation of the thorax is also finer and less dis- 

 tinct ; the elytra have less regular and more shallow striae, with 

 finer punctures in them ; the rostrum is rather shorter ; the con- 

 striction behind the eyes is quite obsolete, and the same may be said 

 regarding that of the thorax. 



Length, 1J lines; breadth, ^ line. 



Taranaki. Found on the sea- shore near New Plymouth. 



Group-PLATYPID^l. 

 Platypus (Gen., p. 539). 



2208. P. lobcitus, n - s - Cylindric, moderately shining ; cas- 

 taneous, legs reddish, antennae fulvescent. 



Head nearly plane in front, with a large central depression, 

 moderately punctured, the punctures near the sides sometimes 

 elongate and confluent, the whole surface densely but minutely 

 sculptured ; on the hinder portion are numerous, rather long, yellow 

 hairs, and a smooth median line. Thorax slightly longer than 

 broad, the lateral emargination angulate behind, the base with a 

 small central lobe or angulation ; the surface sculptured like the 

 head, but with the discoidal punctuation nearly obsolete, the com- 

 mon cordiform densely-punctate space absent, the dorsal groove 

 quite indistinct in front. Elytra much narrowed behind ; each 

 terminating in a lobe-like prolongation having a flat, but nearly 

 vertical, face covered with moderately-coarse yellow hairs, and with 

 three more or less obtuse denticulations at the extremity ; there are, 

 on each elytron, six unequally-impressed, minutely or indistinctly 

 punctured striae between the suture and side ; the interstices are 

 somewhat unequal, and are not distinctly punctate, behind the 

 middle they are furcate or duplicate, becoming acutely carinate, with 

 a rather broad groove between each pair of costae, these, however, 

 are all more or less effaced just in front of the declivity ; the pubes- 

 cence near this part is moderately fine and semi-erect ; the suture, 

 at the base, is quite open, and at either side of this depression there 

 is a rugose or granulate space. 



Front tibia feebly dentate, with three costiform transverse eleva- 

 tions, and with a distinct curvate spur at the extremity ; tarsi 

 elongate, basal joint of the posterior densely ciliate. Buccal cavity 



