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shorter, so that the posterior margin of the antennal cavities is near to, 
‘though quite distinctly separated from, the eye; it bears two patches of 
dense white pubescence, which are conjoined behind though divergent in 
front. Thoracic carina distinctly sinuate on each side, and without any 
angle, and very gradually bent forwards. Elytra rather densely clothed, 
the shoulders and apex paler than the other parts, just above their declivity 
with a dense pencil of dark hairs, and with another but less distinct pencil 
just behind the middle; pygidium yellowish, quadrate ; ventral plate of 
apical segment of hind body prominent and peculiarly flattened in the 
middle; basal joint of hind tarsus scarcely longer than second and third 
together. 
Tairua : a single individual sent by Captain Broun. I believe it to be 
a male; and it is very probable that the peculiar form of the apex of the 
abdomen is peculiar to that sex. 
Obs. Though much resembling the Anthribus brouni, the A. bullatus is 
readily distinguished therefrom by the short broad rostrum and by the 
waved thoracic carina. 
Anthribus vates, n. sp. 
A. capite rostrato, oculis pereonvexis, piceus, tomento griseo fuscoque 
vestitus ; prothorace conico, angulis posteriorbus minus discretis, 
carina ab elytrorum humeris remota. Long. corp. 5 m.m. 
Antenne moderately stout, shorter than the body, obscure reddish ; 
second joint rather elongate, third nearly one and a half times length of 
second. Head with a short, broad rostrum ; antennal cavities large but 
not suleiform, placed quite at the side of rostrum, and distinctly prolonged 
on its under face, the space separating the hind edge of these cavities from 
the eye small but distinct; the eyes are almost hemispherical. Thorax 
conical, not quite so long as broad ; its carina in the middle is separated by 
a short distance only from the’ base of the elytra, but is curved so that its 
angle is twice the distance from the elytra that the middle is; the angle of 
the carina is almost a right angle (but not sharply marked), and it is only 
produced a very short distance forwards along the side; behind the carina 
the sides of the thorax are narrowed, so that a very evident gap is left on 
each side, between the angles of the thorax and those of the elytra. The 
elytra are covered with a dense variegated tomentum, which conceals their 
lines of punctures. 
_ ‘Tairua: a single male specimen sent by Captain Broun. The ventral 
segments in this sex are distinctly flattened and impressed along the 
middle. 
Obs, Though this species in general structure is closely allied to 4. 
huttoni, it is very readily distinguished therefrom by the difference in the 
