Species of NeiC'Zealand Culei)ptera. 59 



Trachyphlceus porculus. 



T. obovatu3, ni{?cr, squamis alliidis depressis dense vestitiis, setulisque 

 tenuibus erect is seriatim ndsjuTsus ; rostro crasso, scrobibus caver- 

 nosis, ad oculos baud extensis ; antcnnis ferrugineis, clava in- 

 fuscata ; protboraco versus apicem baud constricto ; elytris brcvi- 

 usculis, substriatis ; tibiis auticis bicalcaratis. Long. 1| lin. 



Hdh. Otago. 



Allied to our T. squamuhifus, from which its cavernous 

 scrobes and slender setuhe will at once distin;;uish it. 



Brexim ascitus. 

 B. ani^istus, vix doprcssus, piceo-bninneus, squamis obscure griseis 

 tectus ; rostro supra lineis quinque elevatis distinctis, quarum 

 intermedia majore, instructo ; antennis ferrugineis, clava pubes- 

 cente ; protboraoc longitudine latitudini scquali, in medio non- 

 nihil carinato ; soutello parvo ; elytris striatis, le^-iter punctatis, 

 intcrstitiis convexis, quinto versus apicem tuberculato-elevato ; 

 tibiis anticis intus denticulatis. Long. 2| lin. 



Hob. Waikato. 



A much nan'ower fomi than the Victorian B. murinus^ to 

 which it is the most nearly allied. 



Phrynixxis astutus. 



P. ovatus, fuscus, supra squamositate dilutiore vcstitus ; rostro 

 tenuiore, basi ante oculos tuberculo instructo ; protborace longiore 

 quam latiore, dorso tubcrculato ; elytris breviusculis, utrinque 

 rotundatis, supra tuberculatis, angulis anticis minus productis ; 

 tarsis minus clongatis. Long. 1|- lin. 



Hab. Tairua. 



This species differs from P. terreus (ant^, vol. xvi. p. 221), 

 inter alia, in the tubercle on the rostrum, the narrower and 

 longer prothorax, the shorter and rounded elytra, &c. There 

 are only very shallow impressions on the elytra indicating any 

 punctuation. 



Emp.eotes. 



Inophlceo proximus, sod scrobibus ad oculos profunde impressis. 

 ifox<ru/n robust iim. Antenncn gtdiCJles. Prot^rao: basi truncatus ; 

 lobis ocularibus obsoletis. 



In Inophloeiis the scrobes are well marked only at the point 

 where the antcnnoe arc inserted, rapidly disappearing bcliind. 

 In this genus the scrobe, curved at first, runs to the middle 

 and front of the eye ; the scape, however, extends to the hind 

 margin of the eye, so that the scrobe can only receive a portion 

 of it. 



