Cohoptera from yiew Zealand. 'i'll 



Underside piceous, shining, with a few rather slender 

 yellowish setfe. Pectoral canal deep, extending to the front 

 margin of the middle coxre, the mesosternura carved there 

 but not much raised ; it is ciliate behind. Metastermim very- 

 short, almost linear between the hind and middle coxae, the 

 middle depressed, each side with a patcli of pallid sponge- 

 like squamaj extending inwardly as a sort of streak. Abdo- 

 men large, densely and minutely sculptured, the first segment 

 in the middle nearly twice the length of the second, depressed 

 along the middle, with some coarse punctures, the frontal 

 suture not well defined ; third and fourth very short, below 

 the level of the basal ones ; fifth red, rather large, finely 

 punctured. Tihice produced and acuminate at the inner 

 extremity. 



In appearance this somewhat resembles A. comptus, which, 

 however, is less convex and much narrower; the tibire have 

 slender but distinct spurs, and the tarsal and sternal structure 

 differs, so that the two are not really congeneric. It may be 

 identified by the bare, red, transversely sculptured disk of the 

 thorax. 



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



Mount Pironsria. About half a dozen individuals were 

 found on the ground in December 1892. 



Acalles porcatuSy sp. n. 



Piceous, slightly shining, nearly bald, having only a few 

 erect, rather slender, yellowish setse ; rostrum red ; antennas 

 testaceous, club black. 



Rostrum finely sculptured. Scape short and rather thick, 

 medially inserted. Funiculus longer than the scape, second 

 joint short, much more slender than the thick basal one ; 

 club large, ovate. Thorax about as broad as it is long, a 

 good deal narrowed anteriorly, broadly constricted there, 

 coarsely punctate. Scutellum invisible. Elytra short and 

 broad, much rounded ; the strige broad and deep, with coarse 

 punctures, sometimes appearing irregular or interrupted ; 

 interstices narrow and convex, not always equally elevated. 



Underside like that of A.farinosus, except that the middle 

 of the metasternum is more broadly depressed. 



In form like the preceding species, but with still more 

 scanty clothing, and the sculpture much coarser and irregular. 

 The second ventral segment is nearly vertical behind and on 

 a higher plane than the following two, which are extremely 

 short. The femora are grooved below. 



Length (rostr. excl.) f, breadth % line. 



Mount Pirongia. Four examples, December 1892. 



