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facetted, truncate in front, transverse, lateral. Pycthovae longer 
than broad, somewhat narrowed behind, base sub-truncate, with 
distinct ocular lobes. Scwtellum minute. Elytra oviform. slightly 
tri-sinuated at base, where they scarcely exceed the thorax in 
breadth. Femora clavate beyond the middle; tbie flexuous, with- 
out hooks, sub-mucronate and concave at the apex; tavsi with 
brush-like soles, their two basal joints obconical, penultimate 
bi-lobed, claws simple, divergent. Abdomen with two large basal 
segments, having their suture sinuous, 3rd and 4th very short. 
Body moderately convex, sub-ovate, with minute scales. 
A form near Inophleus, with the apex of the rostrum more 
expanded below the antennal insertion, the scrobes much more 
oblique, and the extremity of the tibize less produced, &c. 
1414. Pheophanus vugosus, n.sp.—Opaque, pitchy-black, tarsi 
and antenne rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed with minute, obscure 
testaceous scales ; sub-ovate, moderately convex. 
Rostrum as long as thorax, broadly but not deeply hollowed 
above, closely and very minutely punctated, with some coarser 
punctures disposed in rows. Pvothovax sub-cylindrical but not 
narrow, widest before the middle and a little narrowed pos- 
teriorly ; nearly plane but rather uneven above, with a frontal 
and two obtuse dorsal elevations, a few minute granules, and 
entirely covered with very dense but excessively fine punctures, 
Scutellum triangular. Elytva ovate, with nearly vertical sides, a 
little convex, gradually deflexed apically ; their sculpture more 
or less rugose, they bear some small granules near the base, are 
irregularly punctured, with indications of striz, there are two 
callosities behind, and many smaller ones on the sides, Antenne 
with a few straw-coloured hairs, the two basal joints of the funicle 
longest, joints 3-7 longer than broad, obconical. Underside obscure 
black, apparently almost nude and impunctate. Legs and tarsi 
hispid. The body usually covered with a fusco-testaceous scaly 
deposit. 
Length (rost. excl.), 534 ; breadth, 2% lines. 
Two specimens have been transmitted from “The Brothers ” 
(Cook’s Straits), by Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager. 
CYLINDRORHINID&. 
1415. Empaotes amotus, n.sp.—Sub-ovate, broadest near pos- 
terior femora, rather plane; piceous, covered with depressed, 
variegated, but chiefly grayish, scales and decumbent sete; 
funiculus and tarsi red. 
Rostrum short, indistinctly carinated, densely squamose. -Pro- — 
thovaz slightly longer than broad, sub-cylindrical, uneven, punc- 
tate, not tuberculate. lytva rather short and broad, nearly 
vertical behind, uneven, with four callosities behind the posterior ~ 
femora, and two robust protuberant processes directed backwards, 
on nearly the same level as the disc, on the summit of the 
posterior declivity; apices not projecting. Legs squamose. 
Scape scaly ; funicle pilose, its 2nd joint quite as long as the Ist. 
