78 Capt. T. Broun on new 
without forming nodiform elevations; the scales are more 
elongate than those of the thorax. Legs stout, with elongate 
squamee and sete. 
Underside clothed like the upper surface but more rufescent, 
the abdomen, however, bears hair-like squamosity. 
Length (rostr. incl.) 7, breadth 23 lines. 
Wanganui. 
Two examples were given to me several years ago by 
Mr. Marshall of the Collegiate School. 
Group Rhyparosomide. 
MEMES, gen. nov. 
Body convex, subovate. Rostrum longer than thorax, 
slightly arched, parallel, very slightly expanded just before 
the middle. Scrodes straight, almost attaining the front of 
the eyes, they begin near the apex (about one third of the 
length of the rostrum) and at that part are open and visible — 
from above. yes depressed, their greatest bulk is from 
above downwards; they are widely separated, and not quite 
free from the thorax. Scape moderately incrassate at the 
extremity, it almost touches the eye. Funiculus rather 
longer than the scape, basal articulation rather larger than _ 
the second, both longer than broad ; joints 3-7 transverse. 
Club compact, oval, indistinctly articulated. Thorax about 
as long as it is broad, with ocular lobes. Hlytra apparently 
connate, humeral angles obtusely prominent, scutellar region 
depressed. Legs long and stout. Femora slender near the 
base, much dilated medially, arched above, with a strong 
dentiform projection underneath. ’bdw flexuous; the ante- 
rior deeply incurved, inwardly, near the base, broadly 
expanded below, and terminating in a stout curvate frontal 
spur. Zarsi slender, their third joint deeply excavate above, 
with short lobes; claws small and slender. 
Prosternum deeply emarginate. Front cowe contiguous, 
middle pair moderately, the posterior widely separated. 
Sternum longitudinally impressed. Abdomen with short 
intermediate segments. 
This genus should be located near Bantiades. Although 
the legs are similar in both genera, yet there are other 
material differences. Lantiades has a shorter and thicker 
rostrum with deep polished scrobes, the antennal insertion 
is subapical, the body is broader and more densely and 
coarsely clothed, and the shoulders are not free. 
