Broun. — New Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 105 



3270. Phaeocharis cuprealis sp. nov. 



Piceous, legs and scape obscure fusco-rufous, funiculus and tarsi usually 

 ferruginous ; the body densely covered with, variegated squamae, along 

 the suture and across the basal portion of the elytra they are of a reddish- 

 coppery hue, whilst some similar ones are scattered over the dark areas 

 near the sides, and on the middle of the thorax ; the vestiture near the sides 

 of the latter, as well as on the head and rostrum, is for the most part 

 yellowish ; the setae are pallid or slightly infuscate. 



Rostrum with slender grey setae on the nearly bald apical portion, with 

 an obtuse ridge along the middle, and a broad oblique impression in front 

 of each eye. Thorax of equal length and breadth, somewhat prominent 

 laterally before the middle, obliquely narrowed anteriorly, nearly straight 

 behind ; its surface uneven, with a large angular median impression, before 

 the middle, which is prolonged towards the base as a broad channel ; near 

 each anterior angle there is another large impression ; the intervals are 

 more or less elevated ; in front and at the sides there are some elongate, 

 coarse, pale setae ; no punctation can be seen. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra 

 quite twice the length but not double the width of thorax, narrower at the 

 base, with a slight lateral prominence just behind the oblique shoulders, 

 they are a good deal narrowed behind the posterior femora ; dorsum slightly 

 imeven, with an obtuse elevation at each side of the slight yet rather broad 

 basal depression ; in line with each of these, on top of the declivity, there 

 is another, and outside this a pair ; the suture is obtusely elevated along 

 the posterior declivity ; there are no dorsal striae or punctures. 



The legs bear coarse greyish setae. Scape thickly, funiculus sparingly, 

 setose ; 3rd joint of the latter barely half the length of the elongate 2nd, 

 7th rather broader than 6th ; club finely pubescent, its intermediate joint 

 rather shorter than the basal. 



Underside piceous, with pale elongate setae ; basal ventral segment 

 flat in front, its hind suture oblique towards the sides, its sculpture, like 

 that of the 5th, close but ill defined. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5|-6mm. ; breadth, 2Jmm. 



Erua ; January, 1910. Two found amongst leaves on the ground at 

 an elevation of nearly 2,500 ft. 



3271. Phaeocharis punctatus sp. nov. 



Opaque, piceous, squamosity dense, fuscous or didl cupreous, nowhere 

 concentrated, obscure tawny on the rostrum and sides of thorax ; funiculus 

 and tarsi somewhat ferruginous. 



In most respects like F. cuprealis, the body narrower, thorax rather more 

 elongate, its impressions less definite ; but the elytra are striate-pimctate, 

 and the front or inner face of the posterior tibiae bears some small denticles. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5 mm. ; breadth, l|mm. 



Raurimu. I found two in January, 1910. 



3272. Notiopatae terricola sp. nov. Nofiopatae Broun, Man. N.Z. 



Coleopt., p. 1186. 



Variegate, slightly nitid, thorax fuscous ; the rostrum, elytra, and lega 

 fusco-rufous ; funiculus and tarsi lighter ; elytral disc thinly clothed with 

 fulvescent decumbent setae, which, behind, are somewhat more prominent 

 and curled ; near the sides they are much coarser, curled, and either greyish 

 or infuscate ; on the thorax the setae are irregularly distributed, and form 



