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large, with a deep semicircular excision between it and the dentiform 

 second one, which is situated near the middle, the prominent posterior 

 angle can hardly be termed a lobe; disc much elevated, with a broad 

 channel from front to rear, a pair of strongly elevated prominences 

 form the lateral boundary of the channel in front, there is a pair of 

 smaller ones behind, and another, less elevated but more elongate, near 

 the middle of the base; the sculpture is granular. Elytra more than 

 double the length of thorax, their sides nearly vertical, with serrate 

 margins; on each elytron there is an elongate tubercle at the base, not 

 far from the suture, a pair behind the basal one but nearer the side, 

 on top of the declivity (posterior), near the suture, a rounded pro- 

 minence, and a pair of smaller ones lower down; there are some others 

 on the side, and a minute one behind the middle, near the suture; the 

 disc is almost flat along the middle, with nearly seriate granular sculpture. 



Antennae with tine setae, those, however, on the thick basal joint are 

 coarser and brassy; 2nd stout, oviform; 3rd elongate, but not quite as 

 long as the 4th and 5th combined. Legs with curled squamiform setae; 

 tibiae flexuous. 



Underside opaque, reddish; the metasternum, basal ventral segment, 

 and middle of prosternum with distinct granules and very few yellow 

 setae, the other segments more finely sculptured, flanks of the prosternum 

 covered with sappy matter. 



An obscurely coloured elongate species, with stouter legs than T. 

 indentatus, and with altogether different sculpture, the elytral pro- 

 minences being distinctly separated from one another. 



Length, 4J mm. ; breadth, 1§ mm. 



Mount Greenland, near Ross. From Mr. H. Hamilton's collection. 



3222. Ulonotus uropterus sp. nov. Ulonotus Erichson, Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 186. 



Elongate, transversely convex, subopaque; fusco-piceous, thoracic 

 lobes and legs pale fusco-rufous; the sides of the body bear short dark 

 setae, the elevated parts slender yellow ones, the legs coarse greyish ones. 



Head subquadrate, with close granular sculpture. Eyes free, pro- 

 minent. Antennae sparsely pubescent, the club more densely; 2nd joint 

 nearly as long as the exposed part of the 1st, not quite as stout; 3rd 

 distinctly longer than 4th or 5th; joints 6-8 shorter, and moniliform; 

 club oblong-oval, its intermediate joint larger than 9th, but shorter 

 than the 11th. Thorax bilobed, the frontal lobe large, its apex attain- 

 ing the eye, the 2nd is quite dentiform and placed at the middle of the 

 side, posterior angles rectangular; its middle portion — id est, without 

 the lobes — is longer than broad, binodose in front and projecting some- 

 what over the head, it is without other inequalities and is distinctly 

 granulate. Scutellum small. Elytra with slightly rounded shoulders, 

 yet quite as broad as thorax at the base, quite twice its length, with 

 thick distinctly prolonged apices, the lateral margins only indistinctly 

 serrate; they are closely seriate-granulate; 3rd interstices a little ele- 

 vated at the base; just at the summit of the posterior declivity on each 

 elytron there is a pair of prominent nodosities; in line with the outer, 

 but a little further in advance of it, there is a less-prominent one. 



The tail-like prolongation of the elytral apices will at once lead to 

 its recognition. 



Length, 3^ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Wairiri, Kaikoura. Unique. Found under bark by Mr. W. L. Wallace. 



