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the length of the second, the suture between these two arcuate ; 

 third and fourth moderately short, with deep sutures. 



Scrohes quite open above, they extend from the apex and 

 are directed obliquely downwards, but in front of the eyes, 

 from the upper to the lower margin, there is a broad depres- 

 sion. Posterior corbels not cavernous. There is just the 

 merest trace of ocular lobes. Eyes moderately distant from 

 the thorax, nearly round, large, and very convex ; this last 

 character will serve to distinguish this from all the allied 

 species ; No. 2149 is, however, the nearest. 



The scape attains the hind margin of the eye. The man- 

 dibular scar is indistinct, but I think the genus should be 

 placed in the Otiorhynchidaj, as in a broken specimen of 

 another species the scar, though shallow, can be seen. 



In No. 1238 the corbels of the posterior tibias are narrowly 

 cavernous. 



Length (rostr. inch) 2f, breadth nearly Ij lines. 



Mount Pirongia. One, December 1892. 



All the species unfortunately are exceedingly rare. 



Rhyncliogonus germanuSj sp. n. 



Bobust, piceous, a little shining, clothed with small greyish 

 depressed scales and short semierect setaj. 



liostrurn short and broad, with a central carina ; the finely 

 punctate glabrous apical portion distinctly limited by oblique 

 sutures. Eyes large, broadly longitudinally oval, very con- 

 vex and prominent. Thorax broader than long, more nar- 

 rowed, but not abruptly, in front than behind, its sides mode- 

 rately rounded; disk convex, with a slightly raised, smooth, 

 central, linear space ; it is slightly rugose, the sculpture seems 

 1o consist of small granules with a minute puncture in each; 

 from these the setse arise. Scutellum invisible. Elytra 

 ample, suboblong, evidently broader than the thorax ; the 

 shoulders, however, are much rounded, tlie sides are sub- 

 parallel, behind they are narrowed and declivous ; on each 

 elytron there are six dorsal series of rather shallow sub- 

 quadrate punctures, these almost form strini ; the interstices 

 are not narrow and they are a little elevated, the third and 

 fifth are rather more raised than the others behind, but are 

 not distinctly nodose. Leys stout, tibia? a little Hexuous, the 

 inner extremity somewhat angulate or prolonged ; tarsi setose, 

 their third joint bilobed. Antertme elongate, with tine grey 

 setse ; second joint of the luniculus obviously longer than the 

 first, both elongate, joints 3 to 7 nearly equal, each longer 

 than broad ; club elongate-oval, thrce-juiuted. 



