Genera and Species of New Zealand Culcoptcra. 1\T 



Group Rhyparosoinidae. 

 Pachyprypnns modicus, sp. n. 



Pijrifunn, opaque, fuscous black, covered with greyish- 

 yellow sa})py matter and patches of squamifjrm setae; 

 auteuufe obscure red, tarsi red. 



Rostrum strongly arched, feebly grooved or carinate in 

 front, somewhat ridged and thickly squamositate behind, 

 but without well-marked crests; it is gradually but con- 

 siderably thickened towards the eyes. Antennce clothed with 

 fine brassy setic ; sca|)C clavate, attaining just beyond the 

 middle of the eye; funiculus gradually incrassate, stout, 

 second joint as long as but more slender than first, seventh 

 subquadrate ; club red, compact, nearly round. Eyes distant 

 from thorax and from each other, most prominent behind. 

 Thorax subcylindrical, as long as broad, basal region de- 

 pressed ; with thiee moderate, longitudinal, setose elevations 

 extending from the apex to beyond the middle. Elytra 

 emarginated and closely adapted to the thorax at the base, 

 w here they are of the same width ; tlie scutellar area is 

 depressed ; they are broadest near the almost vertical poste- 

 rior declivity ; their sculpture indefinite, consisting seemingly 

 of series of coarse distant punctures ; they bear several small 

 setose elevations, these, however, are not conspicuous. 



Legs stout, coarsely setose ; the two hinder pairs of tibiic 

 gradually expanded, not flexuous, all mucronate. 



Considerably smaller than either nos. 762 or 1413, and of 

 peculiarly rounded outline posteriorly. The hollowed por- 

 tion of the peuultimate joint of the hind tarsi is very small, 

 just suHicient for the insertion of the claw-joint; this latter 

 IS large, curved, and thickened towards the extremity. 



Length (rostr. excl.) 1^-, breadth | line. 



Kangiahua, Hukiauga. 



1 am indebted to Mr. J. W. Graham, a farmer of that 

 district, for tlie only specimen I have seen. 



Clypeorhynchus inojihloeoides, sp. n. 



Elotu/ate, uneven ; opaque, fusco-piceous, irregularly clothed 

 with dull tawny hair-like scales ; antenuie and tarsi rufescent. 



Rostrum and head equal to the thorax in length, the former 

 indetinitely tricarinate and coarsely punctmvd, its apical 

 portion nude and distantly punctate. £^6-5 oblique, oviform. 

 Head with an elongate central fovea. Thorax slightly longer 

 than broad, subcylindrical, widest before the middle, with 

 tubercular sculpture and a deep median furrow. Elytra a 



