7() (August, 



DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF NEW 

 ZEALAND COLEOFTEEA. 



BY D. SHARP, M.B. 



{continued from ]pa<je 28.) 

 TeLMATOPHILUS NITENS, 11. sp. 



Colore variabilis ; ri(fo-testaceus, elytris phis minusve infuscatis, 

 maculis palliclis magnis quatuor : convexus, nHi(lus,fere oiudus ; tlwrace 

 sat fortiter punctato ; elytris minus suhtiliter punctato-sfriatis, p)unctis 

 apice ohsoletis. Long. corp. 2 — 2\ mm. 



This species, though closely allied to T. depressus, is very distinct therefrom, by 

 its more convex form, and stronger punctuation ; it has also the legs and antennae 

 rather shorter and stouter. The colour is very variable, being sometimes reddish- 

 yellow, with a dark baud across the middle of the elytra, leaving a pale humeral, and 

 apical spot on each ; this dark colour extends sometimes so as to occupy entirely the 

 elytra ; and the prothorax is also, in such specimens, so much infuscate as to be 

 nearly black. 



Also a common species, I believe, about Auckland. 



Aphodius distaxs, n. sp. 



Ang?isticlus, jyarallelus, sat convexus, nudus, nigro-piceus, antennis 

 pedibusque dilutioribus ; capite miitico ; prothorace transversa, elytris 

 latiore, basi crebre fortiter, punctato, punctis anterius magis sp arsis ; 

 elytris crenato-striatis, humeris acute tuberculatis. Long. corp. 4f mm. 



Head very convex, finely punctured without any traces of tubercles ; clypeus 

 much emarginate. Thorax greatly broader than long, in front a good deal broader 

 than the elytra, narrowed to the base, which is as broad as the elytra ; the surface is 

 without depressions, but bears irregularly-distributed coarse punctures, which, on the 

 middle of the front part, ai-e almost absent. Elytra with nine sti-ia;, each of which 

 is punctvired with large, but rather distant, punctures, and also with a series of 

 punctures along the lateral margin. The scutellum is elongate and narrow. The 

 middle coxa; are widely separated ; the basal joint on the liind tarsus is as long as 

 the hind spur. 



Two individuals sent from Tairua by Captain Broun ; they are 

 no doubt the two sexes, for in one of them the pygidium is a good deal 

 more inflexed, and the apical ventral segment shorter in the middle, 

 than in the other. 



Aphodius suspectus, n. sp. 



Angustulus, paralleJus, sat convexus, nudus, piceus, nitidus ; pro- 

 thorace transversim quadrat o, elytrorum laiiludine, fortiter punctata ; 

 elytris fortiter striato-punctatis, humeris hatid acutis. 



Long. corp. 4i mm. 



