1480 COLEOPTERA 



fuscate ; the body, and the legs, very sparingly clothed with fine 

 yellowish and long erect brown setae, the depressed parts filled with 

 tawny sappy matter. 



Rostrum with two slender carinse about equidistant from the 

 sides and the middle, usually covered with tawny squamosity. 

 Scape slightly flexuous, bearing some slender setae, opaque, dark-red. 

 Thorax about one-third longer than it is broad, a little wider near 

 the front than it is elsewhere, gradually and slightly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly ; its sculpture consists of large foveiform impressions and 

 narrow interstices, but near the base and apex the sculpture becomes 

 finer. Elytra not twice the length of the thorax, not much broader 

 than it is, hardly any wider at the base than near the middle, gra- 

 dually narrowed and declivous posteriorly; they have series of 

 oblong punctiform impressions, which are not always regular, but 

 generally form striae, interstices simple. 



Underside shining, rufo-fuscous ; abdomen finely punctate, with 

 depressed yellow setae, depressed between the hind coxae, and with 

 coarser punctures there; prosternum with larger punctures; rostrum 

 obtusely ridged longitudinally, its apex, above, shining, red, without 

 grooves or suture. 



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



Maketu, Hunua Eange. The insect subsists on fallen leaves, on 

 the ground. Five specimens. 



Nestrius. 



Nov. gen. 



Allied to Phyllodytes, but differing structurally in some respects. 

 Prosternum widely incurved, instead of being medially emarginate 

 in front. Anterior coxa slightly separated. Mesosternal process 

 cuneiform ; that of the metasternum truncate between the middle 

 coxae. Tarsi slightly broader, with even longer outstanding hairs, 

 their third joint lobate. Mandibles not quite as long. Rostrum 

 shorter than the thorax, arched above, depressed near the eyes, 

 only slightly pterygiate. The scrobe starts near the apex, almost 

 touches the eye, open above in front, broad. Eyes small, lateral, 

 oval, prominent, directed obliquely downwards, free from the thorax. 

 Scape straight, not slender, very slightly incrassate apically, reach- 

 ing just beyond the apex of the thorax. Funiculus 7-articulate, 

 first joint nearly twice the length of the second, third as long as the 

 second ; club oval, rather broad, obsoletely articulated. Head not 

 immersed to the eyes, but short. Thorax suboviform, but with a 

 slight, broad, frontal constriction, base and apex truncate. Elytra 

 subtruncate at base. Antenna inserted near apex. 



2559. N. serripes, n.s. Elongate, convex, subopaque, obscure- 

 red, femora fulvescent ; it is sparingly clothed with small, yellowish 

 setae, and also with longer erect ones. 



Hostrum narrower than the head, but not slender. Antenna red ; 

 scape opaque, with erect slender setae. Thorax large, longer than 



