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Mount Pirongia. Two, found on the ground, December 

 1892. 



Metacalles rugicollisj sp. n. 



PiceouSy antennae and tarsi red, club pitchj ; sparsely 

 clothed with long, erect, fuscous set« ; some yellow scales 

 are placed near the base of the rostrum and on the thorax ; 

 on each elytron near the middle of the side there are some 

 pale slender scales, and there are a few fine ash-coloured setas 

 behind. 



Rosti'um pitchy red, smooth along the middle, nearly as 

 long as the thorax. Anfennce implanted behind the m.iddle; 

 scape short, rather stout ; funiculus elongate, second joint 

 more slender than, but nearly as long as, the first; club 

 opaque, large, ovate. Thorax rather longer than broad, 

 widest just behind the middle, the frontal constriction shallow, 

 the apex reddish ; the surface with large closely placed punc- 

 tures, these are transversely confluent for the most part, with 

 narrow intervals, so that the disk seems rugose. Elytra 

 cordate, much rounded at the sides ; their stri^ are rather 

 broad and deep, but are only indistinctly punctured. Tarsi 

 narrow, their third joint scooped out above, but not distinctly 

 lobate. 



When compared with M. aspersus it will be seen that the 

 thorax is longer and less contracted anteriorly ; it is difi:e- 

 rently sculptured and is without variegate squamosity. In 

 quite unrubbed specimens I think there will be two small 

 black crests on the third and fifth elytral interstices. 



Length (rostr. excl.) |, breadth quite § line. 



Mount Pirongia. One, Dec. 1892, on the ground. 



Ectopsis simplex, sp. n. 



Cylindricj nearly flat above, opaque, black ; tarsi and 

 antenn£e dark red ; covered with very small, depressed, chiefly 

 ferruginous scales ; the posterior declivity is clothed with 

 sordid grey squamaj, there is a speck of similar colour near 

 the middle of each elytron, and an elongate mark in front of 

 the scutellum. 



Rostrum longer than the thorax, the frontal half nude and 

 finely punctate, Scajje nearly glabrous, rather slender, a 

 little flexuous and incrassate apically. Funiculus sparsely 

 pubescent, second joint distinctly longer than the first. Club 

 elongate, one third shorter than the funiculus. Thorax one 

 fifth broader than long, abruptly contracted in front ; it is 

 flat above and finely and distantly punctured. Elytra slightly 



