1476 COLEOPTEEA 



2555. P. nodosa, n - s - Broad, subovate, subopaque, piceous, 

 antennae and tarsi reddish; sparsely clothed with yellowish-red setae. 



Rostrum about as long as the thorax, feebly tricarinate, its apex 

 red. The scape with a few erect yellow hairs. Thorax about as 

 long as it is broad, rather suddenly constricted and depressed in 

 front ; the sides nearly straight behind ; its surface coarsely, closely, 

 and rugosely punctured, on the middle there is usually a raised line 

 which terminates in a basal depression. Elytra rather broader than 

 the thorax, not twice its length, their sides but little rounded, 

 posterior declivity nearly vertical ; they are striate-punctate, the 

 punctures distant and sometimes shallow, the declivity quite striate ; 

 base sinuous, with two nodose elevations, on the third interstices, 

 the shoulders anteriorly produced and nodiform ; fifth interstices 

 distinctly, the fourth indistinctly, nodose between the middle and 

 the base ; on the summit of the declivity the third and fifth are a 

 little elevated or nodose ; the setae are slender and erect, they are 

 almost entirely confined to the elevated parts and the apical portion. 

 Legs with short grey setae. 



Underside slightly shining, rufo-piceous ; fifth ventral segment 

 red, finely and closely punctured ; the punctuation of the metaster- 

 nuni closer and coarser than that of the second segment ; with short 

 greyish setae. The sides of the metasternum raised and laterall}* 

 produced between the middle and hind coxae. Second segment as 

 long as the metasternum, its frontal suture fine and sinuous. Front 

 coxa widely separated. 



Fern. Rostrum finely sculptured, pitchy-red ; antennal insertion 

 near the apex, one-third of the length. 



Length (rost. excl.), 1^ lines; breadth, -f line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Four individuals, amongst leaves. To 

 this genus Nos. 1222, 1223, 1224, 1225, and 1226 must be added. 

 No. 1227, I think, must be referred to a distinct genus, as the 

 anterior coxae are nearly contiguous. 



Sosgenes. 



Nov. gen. 



Body cylindrical, slightly narrowed medially, nearly glabrous, 

 there being only a few minute setae, the depressed parts with scale- 

 like matter. Rostrum subparallel, only slightly thickened behind, 

 slightly contracted, or pinched-in, at the base; its frontal portion 

 smooth and shining, and abruptly marked off from the opaque 

 sculptured portion. Scrobes deep, beginning at the smooth part, 

 and extending below the sides to the front of the head, they become 

 broader behind. Scape very gradually thickened, barely attaining 

 the front of the head. Funiculus 7-articulate, first joint nearly 

 twice the length of the second, but little thicker ; third slightly 

 longer than broad; 4-7 more or less transverse, scarcely at all 

 dilated. Club comparatively large, ovate, nearly thrice as broad as 

 the seventh joint, indistinctly jointed. Head globose below, not 

 visible above. Eyes invisible. Thorax without ocular lobes, base 



