OF NEW ZEALAND. 1471 



The scrobe, though foveiform, is quite open above and expanded. 

 The tarsi are sparsely pilose instead of being squamose, their third 

 joint is not only excavate above but is also emarginate at the apex. 

 The metasternum is rather longer, so that the middle and hind legs are 

 further apart. The second segment is distinctly marked off from 

 the first by oblique lateral sutures, it is on a lower plane, nearly 

 nude and polished, and thus forms a marked contrast with the rest 

 of the abdomen. The thorax, instead of being narrowed anteriorly, 

 is just the reverse, its widest part being near the front. The body 

 is only sparingly clothed. 



2549. L. fimbriata, n.s. Subopaqiw, piceous, thorax reddish; 

 legs obscure infuscate-red, clothed with erect, fuscous, conspicuous 

 setse ; tawny elongate hairs form a thick fringe on the sides of the 

 thorax, as well as two frontal crests ; on the elytra there are two 

 crests on the top of the posterior declivity, and one lower down at 

 each side, sometimes other small patches occur. 



Rostrum elongate, arched ; in front slightly broader, rather flat, 

 and tricarinate ; before the eyes there is a distinct small yellowish 

 crest. Thorax a little broader than long, widest near the front, the 

 sides behind the middle nearly straight but a little narrowed, its 

 apex slightly constricted ; disc rather flat, very irregularly punc- 

 tured, more finely (on some parts nearly smooth) near the sides. 

 Elytra subcordate, their shoulders rounded, so that they do not 

 exceed the thorax in width at the base ; they bear series of coarse 

 punctures, on the declivity the punctures are finer and almost form 

 striae ; the third and fifth interstices are a little elevated longi- 

 tudinally at the base, the scutellar region appears somewhat 

 depressed, the dark erect setae resemble those on the legs, and the 

 paler clothing often forms smaller patches than those described 

 above. Legs long, femora clavate ; tibiae flexuous, mucronate ; 

 tarsi with short yellow hairs. Antenna implanted at or just before 

 the middle of the rostrum ; scape moderately thickened, setose ; 

 funiculus with slender setae, the second joint shorter than the first, 

 3-6 broader than long, seventh larger than sixth ; club ovate, indis- 

 tinctly articulated. 



Underside more or less infuscate and punctate, the sternum 

 covered with tawny matter ; the second segment of the abdomen, in 

 the middle, longer "than the first, smooth and polished, almost black, 

 the fifth closely punctured. 



Length (rost. excl.), If- 2 lines; breadth, - line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. A good series. The insect lives 

 amongst stones and boulders. 



Dacnophylla. 



Nov. gen. 



Rostrum shorter than the thorax. Scrobes oblique, extending 

 from near the apex to below the eyes, less open above than in 

 Clypcorhynchus, so that the rostrum, at the anteunal insertion, is 

 32 PTS. v., vi., vii. 



