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Antennae 8-articulate, basal joint largest, dilated towards the ex- 

 tremity, 2nd rather longer than 3rd and twice as stout, 4th longer than 

 the preceding, gradually thickened, 5th very short but not broader than 

 the 4th j club composed of 3 rather short equal leaflets. 



Differs from 1977 (C. discoided) in coloration, by the coarse sculpture 

 of the head and thorax, deep elytra! striae and more costiform inter- 

 stices, obviously tridentate anterior tibiae, and by the more elongated 

 tarsal joints. 



Length, 14 mm.; breadth, 8 mm. 



Mount Alpha, near Wellington; elevation, about 4,500 ft. Described 

 from a specimen mounted on cardboard and sent for examination by Mr. 

 Hubert Simmonds, of Wellington, in whose honour it has been named. 



Group EUCNEMIDAE. 



3237. Talerax dorsalis sp. now Talerax Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 279. 



Subparallel, moderately narrow, nitid; black; legs fuscous; the knees, 

 tarsi, and apical margin of thorax castaneous; pubescence cinereous, 

 slender, and elongate, slightly flavescent and thicker at the base of the 

 thorax. 



Head almost as broad as the front of the thorax, feebly medially im- 

 pressed, distinctly but not very closely punctate. Eyes large and pro- 

 minent. Thorax a third broader than long, apical margin somewhat 

 rej&exed and broadly rounded, posterior angles robust, rathei long, a 

 little curved, not at all divergent; disc convex, distinctly yet rather 

 finely but nowhere closely punctured. Scutellum minutely sculptured. 

 Elytra as broad as thorax at the base, thrice its length, tapering very 

 gently towards the extremity ; the shoulders and each side of the suture, 

 at the base, obtusely elevated, sutural striae indefinite but terminating 

 near the apices in deep foveiform depressions, their punctation is coarser 

 than that of the thorax and appears slightly rugose in some aspects, there 

 are also some obsolete striae near the middle. 



Legs very finely pubescent; tarsi slender, simple, basal joint nearly 

 as long as all the following ones, their penultimate joint with slender 

 lobes. Antennae distinctly but not widely separated at the base; 1st 

 joint stout and somewhat curved; 2nd very short and feebly rufescent ; 

 3rd elongate, as long as the 1st; joints 4—10 subserrate, all longer than 

 broad, the 4th, however, is shorter than adjoining ones; 11th elongate; 

 they bear distinct infuscate pubescence. 



T . mi cans (2366) comes nearest, but is rather larger, its thorax is 

 more glossy and irregularly punctured, so that the middle and other 

 spots are almost smooth, the elytral sculpture is more definite, the basal 

 elevations less so. 



Length, 3§ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Mount Pirongia. One captured by myself in December, 190!). 



Group Elateridae. 



3238. Protelater diversus sp. nov. Protelater Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 304. 



Narrow, elongate, and shining, pitchy black, elytral base somewhat 

 rufescent, the knees and claws pale castaneous; pubescence scanty, slender 

 but distinct, greyish-yellow. 



