110 Capt. T. Broun oil new 



Catoptes duplex, sp. n. 



Suhelongate, dull fuscous, sometimes reddish, densely 

 covered with small depressed rounded squamse which are 

 either pale or dark brown ; occasionally, however, paler ones 

 are interspersed ; there are also a few short erect grey setae ; 

 antennae and tarsi ferruginous, legs often rufescent. 



Rostrum and head conjointly about as long as the thorax ; 

 the rostrum with two shallow grooves separated by a central 

 carina^ lateral ridges indistinct, its apex red, punctate, and 

 nearly nude, there being only a few erect yellow hairs. Eyes 

 free, obliquely oval, acuminate towards the front, nearly 

 flat, distinctly facetted. Antennae thinly pubescent; scape 

 slightly incrassate, reaching backwards to behind the eyes ; 

 funiculus longer than the scape, basal two joints almost 

 equal, third elongate yet distinctly shorter than the pre- 

 ceding ones ; club elongate-oval, articulate. Thorax almost 

 as long as it is broad, its sides rounded, widest at the 

 middle ; it is moderately convex, without apparent inequali- 

 ties, and its punctuation is concealed by the squamosity. 

 Scutellum small. Elytra evidently broader than the thorax 

 at the base, oblong, much narrowed posteriorly ; the apices, 

 however, are not acuminate, they are striate-punctate ; the 

 third interstices are slightly raised near the base, more so 

 behind, where they terminate in a nodiforra elevation on top 

 of the declivity, near which the suture also is a little elevated. 

 Legs clothed with a few scales, grey setae, and slender hairs ; 

 tibiae flexuous, the extremity of the posterior with a very 

 thin space between the ciliae. 



Underside thickly clothed with minute greyish scales and 

 slender decumbent setae. Prosternnm deeply incurverl, coxae 

 contiguous. Basal ventral segment medially emarginate, so 

 that in the middle it is but little longer than the second ; 

 both are broadly but only slightly depressed, third and fourth 

 short, the terminal with a median impression. 



The male is rather narrower and the broadest part of the 

 thorax is before the middle. 



The ocular lohes are feebly developed. The scrobes are 

 deep in front, but become vague towards the lower part of 

 the eye. The mandibular scar is distinct. The soles of the 

 tarsi are pilose ; the second and third joints of the anterior 

 are, however, more scantil}^ clothed, the third is bilobed. 



Length (rostr. inch) 3^, breadth 1^ lines. 



Ida Valley, Otago. 



Five examples from Mr. J. H. Lewis. 



Obs. — This is one of several species that do not accord 



