1362 COLEOPTEBA 



Distinguished from Protophormus gracilis by the flexuose inter- 

 mediate tibiae, and the absence of the pale elytral fascia, &c. ; and 

 from T. cavelli by the broader thorax, shorter elytra, and finer 

 serial punctuation, &c. 



Eyes distant from thorax, prominent, directed forwards more 

 than downwards. Scrobes deep in front, rapidly becoming 

 shallow. Ocular lobes obsolete. Corbels of hind tibiae narrowly 

 cavernous. 



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



Moeraki. Found by Mr. Sandager. Fern, incog. 



Catoptes (Gen., p. 428). 



2384. C. latipennis, n.s. Pitchy -black, antennae and tarsi 

 dark-red ; densely covered with small, flat, greyish-testaceous scales, 

 and with many erect setae. 



Hostrum at least one-third shorter than the thorax ; rather 

 broad, with a fine carina along the middle. The scape touches the 

 thorax. Funiculus rather short, its two basal joints nearly equal, 

 the third slightly longer than the fourth ; club acuminate, rather 

 elongate. Thorax about one- fourth broader than long ; its sides well 

 rounded ; its widest part just before the middle ; its punctuation 

 rather fine near the apex and becoming obsolete behind ; the surface 

 without distinct depressions or elevations. Scutellum very small. 

 Elytra broad, nearly double the breadth of the thorax, slightly nar- 

 rowed at the shoulders, not acuminate posteriorly ; their regular 

 series of punctures much hidden ; the third and fifth interstices a 

 little elevated, but not at the base, and nodose behind ; the promi- 

 nence on the third placed further back than that on the fifth, and 

 larger; the suture somewhat convex behind. 



The eyes are a little more prominent behind than in C. obliqwi- 

 signatus ; the rostrum is evidently shorter and thicker ; the antennae 

 are shorter ; the thorax more transverse, with almost regularly 

 curved sides ; the hind - body shorter and broader ; coloration 

 darker, &c. 



A specimen received as the male is narrower (3x1), but the 

 rostrum is longer and more slender, the eyes are less convex, and 

 the thorax is as long as it is broad. 



Length (rost. incl.), 2-| ; breadth, 1J lines. 



Moeraki. One female, found by Mr. Sandager. 



2385. C. furvus, n.s. Fusco-piceous, or blackish, the thoracic 

 apex, tarsi, and antennae reddish ; closely covered with dull yellowish- 

 grey, small, depressed squamae, and bearing numerous conspicuous 

 pallid setae. 



Rostrum one -third shorter than thorax, with a fine median 

 carina, dilated (pterygiate) in front. Thorax of equal length and 

 breadth ; widest before the middle ; the sides, however, almost 

 regularly rounded ; without obvious superficial inequalities, having 

 only a broad, shallow impression near the front, extending from one 

 side to the other but obsolete at the middle, and a dorsal channel 



