OP NEW ZEALAND. 1465 



Geochus (Gen., p. 445). 



2539. G. SquamoSUS, n.s. Shining, sparsely clothed with 

 yellow, depressed, narrow, almost hair-like, scales, and, on the hind 

 part of the elytra, there are semi-erect ones ; thorax and legs pale 

 reddish-chestnut, elytra fuscous, antennae fulvous. 



Rostrum obscure-red, indistinctly punctate and carinate, nearly 

 plane, narrowed behind. Thorax constricted and much narrowed 

 anteriorly, base subtruncate ; distinctly, moderately finely, and not 

 closely punctured, the linear dorsal space almost smooth. Elytra 

 finely margined at the base, widest behind the shoulders, their sides 

 obtuse (id est, not sharply limited) ; they are regularly sub-striate- 

 punctate, the punctures of only moderate size, the apical sculpture 

 finer and more striate, on the disc the punctures appear to be sepa- 

 rated by slight transverse elevations extending right across each 

 elytron, but leaving the suture smooth; interstices gradually, but 

 only very slightly, raised backwards, without nodosities. Legs with 

 yellow setae, erect on the tibiae ; anterior tibiae obliquely cut away 

 beyond the middle. 



Antenna : Scape flexuous, rather abruptly clavate at the extremity ; 

 funiculus elongate, the first joint evidently thicker, but not much 

 longer, than the second, 3-6 nearly bead-like, seventh larger ; club 

 large, the basal joint distinctly marked off from the larger second 

 one, only half its width, the apical joints narrow. 



Underside on nearly the same plane throughout, the suture 

 between the hind coxae slightly curved ; the metasternum and first 

 ventral segment with distinct punctures, each puncture with a 

 minute seta, third and fourth segments transversely carinate, the 

 suture between the first and second broad, slightly curved, deeper at 

 the sides. 



This is the only species except No. 1239 in which the clothing 

 becomes squamiform and depressed. 



Length (rost. incl.), J ; breadth, quite ^ line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Three examples. 



2540. G. tibialis, n.s. Subopaque, fuscous or piceous, the 

 middle of the thorax and the hind part of the elytra often of the 

 same obscure-red as the legs, antennae fulvescent, club fuscous ; very 

 sparingly clothed with pale setiform hairs. 



Eostrum short, much narrowed behind, subcarinate near the 

 sides. Thorax a good deal narrowed anteriorly, not distinctly con- 

 stricted there ; moderately finely and not closely punctate. Elytra 

 broadest behind the middle, the basal margin sometimes thickened 

 and directed obliquely towards the suture ; the sides gradually 

 widened from the base backwards, only slightly curved, rather 

 sharply and regularly limited, so as to appear marginated ; without 

 nodiform elevations, striate-punctate, not always well defined, usually 

 shallow, interstices very minutely punctured ; the parts near the 

 sides somewhat flattened. Anterior tibia curved on the inside, very 

 prominent on the outer face above the middle, the middle pah- 

 less so. 



