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and a little coarser near the suture than elsewhere, their sides have 

 several coarse, smooth foveae ; on each elytron there are 4 distinct tuber- 

 cular elevations; the 1st is basal, near the scutellum, the 2nd before the 

 middle, the 3rd on top of the apical declivity; these are nearly in line; 

 the 4th is placed just outside and a little in advance of the 2nd; there 

 are 4 smaller ones near the 3rd, the innermost pair being near the suture. 



Underside fuscous, covered with short tawny setae. Intermediate 

 coxae as far apart as the anterior pair, the posterior slightly more 

 approximated. Basal ventral segment longer than the 2nd in the middle, 

 cuneiform between the coxae, 4th rather shorter than 3rd, 5th simple. 

 Epipleurae broad nearly to the extremity 



Antennae with short brassy setae, their basal joint twice as thick but 

 not much longer than the 2nd, which is almost half the length of the 

 3rd, joints 4-8 about equal; club finely pubescent. 



A rather elongated species, with broad, obliquely truncate elytral 

 apices, and unusually brightly coloured palpi. 



Length, 12 mm.; breadth, 5 J mm. 



Mount Quoin. My specimen was found by Mr. A. O'Connor. 



Group DlAPERIDAE. 



3253. Menimus lineatus sp. nov. Menimus Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 

 p. 360. 



Oblong-oval, slightly transversely convex, nitid; nearly glabrous, 

 there being only a few slender, erect, inconspicuous greyish setae on the 

 hind-body; those on the forehead and legs, however, are more easily 

 seen, as they are more elongate and flavescent; body somewhat infuscate 

 piceo-rufous, the lateral margins and apical portion of elytra paler ; 

 legs, antennae, and palpi more or less ferruginous. 



Head smaller than thorax, finely yet quite distinctly but not closely 

 punctured. Eyes minute. Thorax a third broader than long, very 

 slightly curvedly narrowed anteriorly, nearly straight behind, where 

 the lateral margins are more expanded than they are in front; the 

 apex is bisinuate, with obtuse angles; base subtruncate, closely applied 

 to the elytra, its angles rectangular but not at all prominent; the 

 punctation distant, and rather finer than that of the head ; just in 

 front of the fine basal margin and parallel to it there is a fine linear 

 impression which appears more definite when examined sideways. Scu- 

 tellum broadly triangular, finely punctate. Elytra twice the length of 

 the thorax, of about the same width, but witli the rather acute humeral 

 angles extending just outside the hind angles of the thorax; they are 

 gradually narrowed posteriorly, with a corresponding diminution of the 

 lateral margins, which when looked at from above seem quite obsolete ; 

 their punctures are subseriate, rather coarser near the sides and suture 

 than those of the thorax, and become indistinct behind. 



Antennae stout, rather short ; 2nd and 3rd joints rather longer than 

 broad, each evidently longer than the uncovered portion of the 1st; 4th 

 quadrate; joints 5-7 of about equal length, but successively expanded, 

 narrowed towards the base; 8th and 9th large, transverse, narrowed 

 backwards; 10th large, subrotundate. 



Legs moderately slender; tibiae with minute terminal spurs; basal 

 joint of posterior tarsi rather shorter than the 2nd and 3rd combined. 



