160 T ran m ctiom. 



Femora moderately dilated. Antennae of moderate length, their 3rd 

 and 4th joints each nearly double the length of the 5th. 



This species may be identified by a careful scrutiny of the thoracic 

 sculpture. 



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



Silverstream. Another of Mr. Hubert Simmond's captures. 



Group EUMOLPIDAE. 



3354. Pilacolaspis angulatus sp. nov. Pilacolaspis tSharp, Man, N.Z. 



Coleopt., p. 1.305. 



Convex, oblong, sparingly clothed with short suberect greyish hairs; 

 pale brown or rafo-testaceous, faintly bronzed, legs testaceous, tarsi and 

 antennae more rufescent. 



Head distinctly but not coarsely punctate. Eyes just free from thorax, 

 large and j^rominent, somewhat obliquely oval. Thorax rather narrower 

 than elytra, a third broader than long, apex subtruncate, with slightly 

 incrassate, deflexed, subrectangular angles, base slightly curvate ; the 

 sides distinctly margined, widest and angalate just behind the middle, 

 gradually narrowed towards the front, rather abruptly and somewhat 

 sinuously contracted behind, posterior angles subrectangular but obtuse ; 

 its whole surface closely but not coarsely punctured. Elytra oblong, 

 curvedly narrowed towards the apices, shoulders a little 'elevated and 

 nearly smooth ; they are moderately coarsely but not seriately punctate, 

 with an obtuse subapical elevation on each near the suture. 



Legs stout, tibiae very finely setose, a little expanded towards the 

 extremity, the posterior excavate there. Tarsi stout, 3rd joint deeply 

 bilobed, claws appendiculate. 



Underside testaceous, with slender greyish pubescence. Anterior coxae 

 distinctly separated and placed close to the front of the prosternum ; the 

 other pairs rather more widely separated. Metasternum moderately 

 elongate, convex, grooved behind. Abdominal process rather broad, not 

 at all abruptly rounded or subangulate between the coxae. 



Antennae stout, 2nd joint small and suboviform, 3rd as long as 4th. 



The darker colour, medially angulate and densely sculptured thorax^ 

 and estriate elytra render it distinct from P. latipennis. 



Length, 5| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



Dun Mountains, Nelson. Two from Mr. H. W. Simmonds. 



3355. Pilacolaspis latipennis sp. nov. 



Oblong, subdepressed above, nitid, with slender greyish pubescence ;. 

 rufo-testaceous, very slightly aeneous, legs testaceous. 



Head, including the large prominent eyes, as wide as the front of thorax,, 

 finely, somewhat irregularly, but not closely punctured, with a shallow 

 interocular impression. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, apex 

 truncate, with obtuse, nearly rectangular angles ; its sides finely margined, 

 rather wider near the middle than elsewhere, gradually and slightly 

 narrowed anteriorly, with a distinct sinuosity near the obtusely rectangular 

 posterior angle ; the base medially feebly emarginate ; its surface slightly 

 uneven, moderately closely but not coarsely punctate. Scutellum oblong, 

 bronzed. Elytra oblong, with rounded apices, the base evidently broader 

 than that of the thorax, with a depression near each shoulder ; their 

 sculpture coarser than that of the thorax, not seriate on the disc, but 



