SHARP.— On the Anthribide of New Zealand. 389 
Obs. This very curious species should be placed, in my arrangement, at 
the head of the New Zealand species, on account of its elongate rostrum; I 
anticipate, however, that it will prove to be more nearly allied to Anthribus 
vates than to A. brount, on account of the form of its thorax and antenne. 
Anthribus ornatus, n. sp. 
A. eapite breviter rostrato, oculis rotundatis convexis, robustus, latior, 
elytris tuberculis sex magnis; dense subtiliterque scabroso-punctatus, 
olivaceus, subtus pallide tomentosus, in rostro et ad marginem 
anteriorem prothoracis albido-tomentosus, tuberculis plus minusve 
aureo-vestitis; tibiarum apice tarsisque nigris; antennis medio 
testaceis, basi apiceque fuscis. Long. corp. 71 m.m. 
Rostrum short and very broad; mandibles very broad; antenne 
inserted at the sides in a large fovea, widely separated from the eye, which 
is moderately large, very prominent, and nearly circular. Antenne short ; 
the two basal joints rather slender, the second rather the longer; of 8-8 
each is a little shorter but not broader than its predecessor; 9-11 forming 
a stout club, the eleventh being the largest of the three. The rostrum 
bears a deep fovea on the middle; and round this is a space clothed with 
nearly white scales. Thorax sinuate at the sides and much depressed at 
the front angles; the carina strongly elevated, very near to the elytra 
except in the middle, it forms on each side a well-defined right angle, and 
is continued forwards to near the front ; the dise of the thorax bears two 
coarse tubercles or angular elevations, it is of a greenish colour, densely 
and finely punctured, and clothed with very fine hairs, with a dense patch 
of irregular shape at the front angles nearly white, and at the base on each 
side of the middle with some golden-coloured hairs, and with some similar 
ones about the tubercles. Elytra with a very fine and dense punctuation, 
and with some rather larger punctures, which are indistinctly arranged in 
rows; each one bears three very large tubercles placed at a little distance 
from the suture, and each is notehed at the base so as to expose the rather 
large and elevated seutellum; the suture just behind the seutellum is 
elevated, and there is a fine but distinct sutural stria ; the surface bears 
extremely short and fine and indistinct pale hairs, which are more con- 
spicuous about the tubercles than elsewhere. Under surface rather densely 
clothed with a pale grey pubescence. Legs pale green, with the apex of 
the tibie and the tarsi black. 
Obs. This very remarkable insect is readily distinguished by the rounded 
scutellar angles of the elytra; its place among the New Zealand species at 
present known is next to Anthribus altus, and, in the present state of the 
classification of the Anthribida, should find its place near the species of 
C ratoparis. 
