OP NEW ZEALAND. 1491 



abrupt, rounded ; punctate-striate apparently, the punctures hidden, 

 the third interstices are just perceptibly elevated near the base. 

 Legs long and thick ; the anterior femora rather longer than the 

 others, the tibia rather shorter, their hooks distinct, there are some 

 coarse conspicuous setae near the knees ; tarsi with broadly-ex- 

 panded and lobate third joints, the fourth rather short. 



The pectoral canal is profound, with abruptly-raised hind borders. 

 The metastemum and basal segments are broadly impressed, and are 

 covered with greyish or fulvescent scales, the other segments are 

 sparingly clothed with minute scales. 



Antenna inserted at, or just behind, the middle of the beak ; 

 scape short and thick ; funiculus elongate, but not slender, second 

 joint quite as long as the first, but much more slender, 4-7 trans- 

 verse ; club unsymmetrical. Eyes large, just free, subrotundate. 

 There are no ocular lobes, the thorax being nearly truncate from 

 the canal-angles to the upper surface. Scutellum absent. 



Congeneric with A. aulacus, but differing in shape. 



Length (rost. excl.), ; breadth, f line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Amongst leaves on the ground ; one. 



Scelodolichus (Gen., p. 495). 



2573. S. hilaris, n.s. Convex, narrow, narrowed and depressed 

 medially; shining, rufo-piceous, antennae and tarsi red; densely 

 covered with decumbent, hair-like, red scales, there is usually, how- 

 ever, a large bare pitchy space near each side of the elytra, the erect 

 setae are numerous, not coarse, and generally fuscous ; sometimes 

 there are about six pallid spots on the hind-body. 



Rostrum about as long as the thorax, rather more expanded at 

 the base than in front, finely punctate. Eyes oblique, broadly-oval. 

 Thorax longer than broad, widest behind the middle, rather more 

 narrowed in front than behind, base finely margined ; closely, 

 deeply, but not very coarsely punctured. Elytra marginated at the 

 base, which is of the same width as the thorax, they are widest 

 behind the shoulders, and are gradually narrowed and much deflexed 

 posteriorly ; they have series of distant and not very deep punctures. 

 Legs long ; thighs arched above, not clavate, grooved near the ex- 

 tremity ; tibiae flexuous, with well-developed apical hooks ; tarsi 

 pilose below, narrow, first joint elongate, slender at the base, 

 second joint of the anterior longer than broad, third moderately 

 expanded and lobed. 



Antenna inserted behind the middle of the rostrum ; scape reach- 

 ing the front of the eyes, shining, gradually incrassate ; funiculus 

 elongate, first joint distinctly thicker but not much longer than the 

 second, 3-7 become broader ; club ovate, indistinctly tri articulate. 



Underside subopaque, with shallow sculpture, and yellow, hair- 

 like scales or setae ; there is a depression from the middle coxae to 

 the second ventral segment. Pectoral canal very deep, bounded be- 

 tween the middle coxae by the strongly-elevated margin of the meso- 

 sternum. Metastemum short, so that the hind and intermediate coxal 



