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they bear erect fuscous setae, and minute brassy setae or scales, 

 these are peculiar, as, when carefully examined, they seem to have 

 two minute hairs proceeding from them. 



Kesembles N. setifer, but easily distinguished therefrom on a 

 comparison of the undersurface. The prosternum is similarly 

 emarginate, but the front coxa are slightly closer ; the middle pair, 

 however, are rather further apart ; the metasternal process is 

 sharply truncate ; the two basal segments of the abdomen are 

 broader, and are clothed with brassy, hair-like, depressed scales, 

 and, instead of a curvate suture, this species has it oblique towards 

 each side, the third and fourth are less abbreviate. 



The position I assigned to the genus is now proved to be the 

 correct one. I possess one example with one of the supplementary 

 mandibles still adhering. 



There is no ocular lobe, and the corbel of the hind tibia is not 

 cavernous. 



Length (rost. incl.), l|~lf lines ; breadth, f line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Seven individuals. In one the minute 

 scales are somewhat concentrated near the top of the hind declivity, 

 the claws are rather long and slender, and the thorax is irregularly 

 punctured. 



Paelocharis (Gen., p. 1187, Part V.). 



2536. P. vestita, n.s. Convex, broad, fusco-rufous, legs testa- 

 ceous, antennae pale-reddish. 



Nostrum short and thick, with an indistinct central line, its 

 clothing smaller and paler than the conspicuous yellow hairs on the 

 head. Thorax transverse, base and apex truncate, its sides only 

 moderately rounded; its surface irregularly but not closely punc- 

 tured, with bright fulvous depressed hairs, and a few erect fuscous 

 se.tae. Elytra rather broader at the base than the thorax, still 

 broader near the middle, the shoulders and sides rounded, the apex 

 almost perpendicular ; they bear series of rather coarse punctures, 

 the declivity is substriate ; near the middle they are clothed with 

 fulvous, small setae, near the sides the setae are paler and unevenly 

 distributed. 



Very much like the typical species. The scape is thicker ; the 

 elytral punctures are coarser and less regular and much concealed 

 by the more conspicuous clothing ; the apex of the rostrum is marked 

 off by oblique sutures; the legs are comparatively slender; the 

 mandibular scar is distinct ; the abdomen bears depressed, brassy 

 hairs, and its two basal segments are slightly convex. 



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



Maketu, Hunua Eange. One individual only. 



Catoptes (Gen., p. 428). 



2537. C. vastator, n.s. Oblong-oval, piceous ; densely clothed 

 with small, round, flat, greyish scales and pale setae ; legs obscure - 

 reddish, antennae ferruginous. 



