Broun. — New Genera and Species of Colenptera. lo5 



3345. Somatidia nodularia sp. nov. 



Elongate, convex, moderately nitid ; fuscous, the elytra and base of 

 femora paler and more rufescent ; tibiae and tarsi testaceous, the base 

 and a small subapical spot on the former dark fuscous ; antennae castaneo- 

 rufous, joints 5-10 sometimes testaceous with the apical half of each 

 infuscate ; vestiture fine and variegate. 



Head vertical, sparingly punctate and pubescent in front, darker, concave, 

 and nearly glabrous between the anteimae. Thorax slightly longer than 

 broad, convex, widest and evidently rounded near the middle ; irregularly 

 punctate, rather coarsely near the middle, where there is a pair of slight 

 nodiform elevations, less coarsely but more closely behind ; pubescence 

 cinereous, but more distinct and quite yellow at the middle of the base, 

 and sometimes in front also. Scutellum elongate, with fine yellowish or 

 grey pubescence. Elytra quite double the length of the thorax, of the same 

 width as it is at the base, widest at the middle ; they are more coarsely 

 punctured than the thorax, but the punctation becomes finer and much 

 more distant on the posterior slope ; on each, behind the shoulder, there 

 is an elongate narrow elevation, another but more prominent one before 

 the middle at some distance from the suture, and a much less obvious one 

 on top of the hind slope ; the pubescence is scanty, rather slender, some- 

 what curled, and ash-coloured on the disc but more conspicuous and yellowish 

 behind ; on the apical portion there are some faint greyish spots and erect 

 setae. 



Antennae finely pubescent and bearing some longer hairs like those on 

 the legs, their 4th joint evidently shorter than 3rd yet longer than 5th ; 

 they nearly attain the extremity of the body. 



Male. — Fifth ventral segment not longer than 4th, strongly curved 

 at the extremity, 6th short. 



Female. — 5 mm. by 2 mm. ; 5th segment medially impressed. 



Quite as elongate, narrow, and convex as the male of S. angusta (1052), 

 which, without reference to other details, may be at once distinguished 

 by the finer and dense punctation of the thorax, and by the absence of 

 nodules there. 



cJ. Length, 6 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. * 



Erua. Found amongst leaves on the ground, at an elevation of 2,400 ft., 

 by Mr. W. J. Guinness and myself ; the female by Captain H. S. Whitehorn 

 at the head of the Retaruke River a couple of months later, March, 1910. 



3346. Somatidia discoidea sp. nov. 



Subopaque, rather broad, moderately convex, variegate. 



Head black but not smooth behind. Thorax of equal length and breadth, 

 with moderately rounded sides ; the disc, on the middle, with a shallow 

 impression, and at each side of this, with a dark, smooth, but scarcely 

 elevated spot, near the front there is a slight transverse impression ; its 

 punctation moderately coarse but not close, more regular and closer at the 

 sides ; on the centre of the base there is a conspicuous angular patch of 

 yellow hairs, and a smaller one at the apex, the rest of the pubescence is 

 greyish, the ground-colour reddish-brown. Scutellum triangular, greyish- 

 Elytra moderately convex, of the same breadth as thorax at the base, a good 

 deal broader in the middle ; their basal portion dull fuscous and coarsely 

 punctured ; the broad space between that and the posterior declivity is 

 pale testaceous and less distinctly punctate ; the top of the declivity is 



