Broun. — New Genera and Species of Coleoptera. £35 



3251. Anobium niticolle sp. uov. 



Cylindric, nigrescent, legs and antennae rufo - piceous ; head and 

 thorax moderately nitid ; elytra dull, covered with hue ami rather short 

 cinereous pubescence. 



Head vertical in front, the occiput closely and minutely punctate. 

 Eyes very prominent. Thorax moderately dilated laterally near the 

 middle, base and apex gently rounded, its length and breadth about 

 equal; there are no superficial inequalities, the middle of the disc is very 

 sparingly punctured, the base distinctly and very closely, the apex much 

 more finely. Scutellum quadrate. Elytra broader than thorax, elongate- 

 oblong, apical margins moderately expanded; they are rather densely 

 and minutely sculptured and rugose, and have numerous series of mode- 

 i ate punctures. 



Antennae inserted in front of the eyes; basal joint stout; 2nd much 

 smaller, yet longer than broad; 3rd longer than 2nd; joints 4-10 more 

 or less serrate, each evidently longer than broad; 11th slightly longer 

 than LOthj but hardly as broad as it is. Legs moderately elongate, inter- 

 mediate femora distinctly thickened at the extremity. Tarsi gradually 

 dilated, basal joint of the anterior as long as the following two combined, 

 4th deeply and widely excavate above and prolonged more than half-way 

 under the 5th, which is short and thick, with stout, basally thickened 

 claws. 



Described from a single specimen mounted on cardboard and smeared 

 with gum, so that all the structural details could not be seen. It is 

 therefore treated provisionally as an aberrant Anobium, from which, 

 however, it may be readily separated by the structures of the antennae 

 and tarsi. 



Length, 3£ mm. ; breadth, IJmra. 



Silverstream. Discovered bv Mr. O'Connor. 



Group Opatridak. 



3252. Syrphetodes truncatus sp. nov. Syrphetodes Pascoe, Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 351. 



Opaque, dark fuscous, elytral margins slightly rufescent, antennae 

 and legs obscure rufous, tibiae indefinitely maculate, the palpi and 

 terminal joint of the tarsi bright castaneo-rufous ; the squamiform setae 

 decumbent, very short, yellowish. 



Head with a smooth central spot, the forehead obtusely elevated in 

 front so as to be on nearly the same plane as the antennary orbits ; 

 there is no perceptible sculpture. Thorax, in the middle, about a fourth 

 broader than long, anterior angles acute and projecting as far as the 

 centre of the prominent eyes, the apex medially deeply emarginate; its 

 sides slightly sinuate and narrowed before the middle, with a shorter 

 and deeper sinuositj- behind, so that the posterior angles seem somewhat 

 acutely prominent; disc obtusely and slightly raised, but not nodose, 

 behind the centre, its sculpture fine and indefinite, apparently granular. 

 Elytra oblong, their sides almost quite straight from behind the shoulders 

 to the hind thighs, curvedly narrowed behind, the apices, nevertheless, 

 are rather broad and obliquely truncate towards the suture, the base is 

 evidently broader than that of the thorax, and there is a slight projec- 

 tion behind each rounded shoulder; their punetation is not quite seriate, 



