40 COLEOPTERA 



S^. H. integratus, Bcrfcs; Eutom. Mon. Mag., July, 1878, /. 

 27. Elougatus, niger, supra cuprescens ; thorace quadrate, max ante 

 basin fortiter angustato, angulis acutis ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, elongatis, 

 striis vix punctulatis, omnino integris, septima apicem versus fortius 

 impressa. 



Long., 9 lin. ; ^ % . 



Very closely allied to P. vagepunctatiis. White ; differing chiefly in 

 the strife not being interrupted, and in the seventh stria being deepened 

 into a flexuous sulcus, extending from two-thirds its length to the apex. 

 The elytra are rather more narrowed to the base, and consequently more 

 oval than in P. vagepunctatiis, and the hind femora of the ^ are not 

 dilated on their under surface. 



Hokitika and Lake Paroa (C. M. Wakefield). 



84. H. hispidultlS, n.s. Oblong, moderately convex, not much 

 shining black ; legs and antenna piceous ; the tarsi ^ndpalpi pitchy-red. 

 Head moderate, constricted behind the eyes, smooth behind, the frontal 

 fovepe rugulose ; labnini emarginate. Prothorax sub-quadrate, a little 

 broader than long, apex slightly emarginate, the base more deeply hol- 

 lowed in the middle ; it is widest near the front, rounded anteriorly, 

 nearly straight, or but little rounded at the middle, gradually and not 

 greatly narrowed behind, with a slight sinuation near the posterior angle, 

 which is rectangular, very slightly projecting, and not acute ; the lateral 

 rims are of equal thickness throughout, it is a Uttle convex, with a slight 

 median groove not attaining the base or apex, deepest at the extremities ; 

 the frontal impressions are shallow, the basal fovete deep but not elongate; 

 the surface is more or less finely striated across, and there are three 

 punctures in the marginal channel, and one on the hind angle, from each 

 of which proceeds a ferruginous bristle. Scutelluni distinctly striated. 

 Elytra oblong oval, a little convex, somewhat wider than thorax ; side 

 margins slightly reflexed, but obsolete at the base, the humeral angles a 

 little produced ; they are a good deal sinuated behind, rather smooth, 

 with feeble stride, the sutural obsolete, and all abbreviated, so that the 

 apex is almost unimpressed ; these strias are punctated, and there is 

 an interrupted marginal row of punctures somewhat confluent behind ; 

 the interstices are scarcely elevated, the third, fifth, and seventh are a 

 little broader than the others, the seventh is prolonged to the apex, and 

 all are more or less irregular and uneven behind, but not very con- 

 spicuously. 



In the males the tliighs are a good deal inflated, the posterior are 

 considerably dilated and angulated beyond the middle, yet not dentate, 

 and the tibice of the same pair are flexuose and arcuated. Under sur- 

 face black. 



Length, 6|-7i ; breadth, 2^-2^ Hues. 



The male is a little larger than the female, the specimen found near 

 Tairua (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. \x.,p. 371) is the smallest, the others in 

 my collection were found at Whangarei Heads. I have only one species 

 of this genus (H. ovatella) which I am quite sure is correctly named, 

 so that I cannot, with advantage, compare this with its allies. 



