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1417. Hetevotyles argentatus, n.sp.—Piceous, legs and antennze 
pitchy-red ; covered with depressed, oval, whitish and pallid 
scales, ; 
Rostrum nude and nearly smooth in front, slightly widened 
at the end, its basal half squamose. Pyvothoraz convex, its length 
and breadth about equal, rounded laterally, almost constricted 
in front; punctured rather coarsely and closely. Elytva broader 
than thorax, shoulders oblique, sides nearly straight, contracted 
and declivous behind, nearly plane above; each elytron with 
three more or less obvious coste, the intermediate ceasing at, 
the others before, the posterior declivity, with two rows-of coarse 
and distant punctures on the interstices; the scales are of a 
silvery hue, except along the suture and elevated parts where 
they are intermingled with a few coarse bristles and of a pallid 
colour. Legs covered with scales and sete. Antenne reaching 
backwards beyond the base of the elytra, hirsute, their 2nd joint 
twice as long as the 3rd, the latter shorter than the Ist. Under- 
side punctate and squamose, in colouration resembling the upper- 
surface. 
Length, 3% -33{ (rost. excl.) ; breadth, 14-134 line. 
I captured my three specimens on the Waitakerei Range. 
1418. Dovrytomus aevicomus, n.sp. — Elliptical, elongate-oval, 
slightly convex ; flavo-testaceous, most of the thorax, and, on 
the elytra, a large tri-lobed basal spot, an irregular, interrupted 
median fascia, a lateral stripe and sub-apical spot, nigro-fuscous ; 
scape and tarsi testaceous red, beak and funiculus infuscate-red ; 
clothed with decumbent brassy hairs. 
Rostrum moderately elongate, arched, parallel, quadri-sulcate. 
Head punctate, densely covered with yellow hairs ; eyes somewhat 
prominent, distinctly facetted. Antenne elongate, scape slender 
and gradually thickened ; funiculus with fuscous hairs, basal 
joint largest, much incrassated towards the extremity, 2nd. sub- 
cylindric, shorter than 3rd and 4th conjointly, these latter equal, 
longer than broad, joints 5-7 decrease in length, the last trans- 
verse; club oblong-oval, pubescent. Prothovax transversal, rounded 
laterally, narrower in front than behind ; not closely nor coarsely 
punctured, its clothing disposed across the surface. Scutellum 
small, blackish. Elytva nearly thrice the length of the thorax, a 
good deal broader than it at the base, humeral angles oblique; 
they taper gradually towards the apices, are striate-punctate, 
the interstices plane and minutely punctulated, the 4th and 7th 
unite before the apices, and at their junction appear somewhat 
elevated, just where the dark apical spots bend towards the 
sides; their hairs arranged lengthways. Legs stout; temora 
dilated and angulated, dentate, so as to appear deeply notched 
at the extremity ; tibize flexuous. 
Most nearly related to D. sudus, the snout rather shorter and 
stouter, the eyes rather more distant from the thorax, the latter 
broader and more rounded, and the elytra more attenuated 
posteriorly. 
