Broun. — Neiv Genera and Species, of Coleoptera. 391 



humeral margins thickened but not projecting, and not exceeding the 

 thoracic angles in width ; they are very evidently sinuate behind, the 

 apices, nevertheless, are quite broad and only slightly rounded; they are 

 finely and regularly punctate-striate, interstices plane on the disc, but 

 becoming a little convex near the sides and extremity; the 3rd, 5th, 

 and 7th are slightly broader than the others, the 3rd are tripunctate, 

 and the 7th have about 6 rather large punctures. 



Underside shining black; the terminal ventral segment has a broad 

 oblique depression extending from the base to the middle, at each side; 

 the apical portion is a little depressed and distinctly longitudinally 

 strigose, and is bipunctate at each side of the middle, at the extremity. 



There are 2 setigerous punctures near each eye, the same number on 

 the forehead; there is one before the middle at each side of the thorax 

 and another at the hind angle. 



This belongs to the section composed of Trichosternus-like species (see 

 p. 986, Man. N.Z. Coleopt.), but after comparison with its numerous 

 members I fail to find any exactly like it. The unusual sculpture of the 

 last abdominal segment is a good guide to discrimination. 



$. Length, 25 mm.; breadth, 8 J mm. 



Bold Peak, Wakatipu ; elevation, about 6,000 ft. A single female, 

 named in honour of Mr. H. Hamilton, its finder, whose recent collecting 

 tours have added considerably to our knowledge of the coleopterous fauna 

 of the mountainous regions of the South Island. 



GlOUp AXISODACTYLIDAE. 



3177. Allocinopus smithi sp. nov. Allocinopus Broun, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 7, vol. 11. p. 607. 



Oblong, slightly convex, moderately nitid ; rufo-piceous, lateral mar- 

 gins of thorax and elytra more rufescent, labrum and mandibles dark 

 red; the legs and antennae fusco-rufous, but with the basal two joints 

 of these latter and the palpi fulvescent. 



Head short and broad, yet rather narrower than the thorax, smooth, 

 with a pair of shallow interantennal foveae; epistome longitudinally 

 striate, and, near each front angle, with a setigerous puncture; there is 

 another one near the back of each eye. Thorax about a third broader 

 than long, its apex widely but not deeply incurved, so that the angles 

 appear slightly prominent; base subtruncate and finely margined; it is 

 a little wider before the middle than elsewhere, moderately rounded there, 

 and rather gradually narrowed towards the rectangular but not acute 

 posterior angles; the lateral margins are well developed, and the channels 

 inside these, through narrow, are a little widened in front; the basal 

 fossae, situated between the middle and sides, are shallow and indefinite, 

 and outside these the surface is slightly flattened, the median groove 

 extends from the basal margin but does not reach the apex, there is no 

 other distinct sculpture. Elytra nearly twice as long as broad, rather 

 wider than thorax at the base, their sides distinctly margined and nearly 

 straight, but widely sinuated and considerably narrowed towards the 

 extremity; their impunctate striae, with the exception of the two sutural, 

 which do not reach the basal margin, are well marked throughout, the 

 short scutellar striae also are distinct; interstices simple and nearly 

 plane, the lateral punctiform impressions are not coarse or deep. 



Legs stout, the tibiae fringed inwardly with fine setae, the inter- 

 mediate with spiniform setae externally ; tarsi finely setose above. 



