OF NEW ZEALAND. 563 



987. A. dignus, n.s. Shining, testaceous, slightly infuscate, legs 

 clear bright pale yellow, like amber, the antenna similar in colour but 

 with the ninth and tenth joints blackish, and the eleventh castaneous. 



Rostrum short and broad, very coarsely and closely punctured, the 

 head with a smooth elevated space between the antenme, and almost 

 smooth behind; eyes small, transverse, and convex. Profhorax much 

 longer than broad, convex, rounded laterally, and a good deal narrowed 

 anteriorly ; its carina distant from the base, nearest to it in the middle, 

 slightly but widely sinuated outwardly towards the front, but becoming 

 obsolete when attaining the sides ; the basal space constricted and de- 

 pressed ; it is finely and distantly punctured, the punctation, however, 

 becoming a little coarser near the sides. 



Elytra moderately short, convex, obovate, with rounded shoulders, 

 and narrowed posteriorly, a fine distinct stria on each defines the suture, 

 and besides these there are, on each elytron, nine rows of moderate 

 punctures which sometimes assume the form of striaj ; pygidiiim sub- 

 triangular. 



AntenncE. shorter than head and thorax, the basal joint considerably 

 dilated inwardly towards the apex, second as long as the dilated part of 

 the first, joints three to eight slender, not twice the length of the club, 

 which is oblong and somewhat laxly articulated ; they are inserted near 

 the front and inner margin of the eyes, and are, apparently, destitute of 

 pubescence. 



Length, nearly i line ; breadth, \. 



The species is congeneric with A. injiati/s, from which it differs in 

 being of a narrower, elliptical outline, with a longer, narrower, more 

 finely and remotely punctured thorax, which is much narrower than the 

 elytra and considerably narrowed in front ; the hind-body is attenuated 

 posteriorly, and (unless the microscope be appealed to) the insect 

 appears quite nude. 



I found one specimen at Parua, near Whangarei Harbour. 



988. A. rugOSUS, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1S76. 

 A. piceus, opacus, antennis pedibusque testaceis, elytris testaceo signatis ; 

 thorace dense, fortiter, profundeque punctato ; elytris striatis, striis pro- 

 funde impressis fortiterque punctatis, interstitiis angustis. 



Long. Corp., i^ mm. 



A?itennie yellow, with the club more obscure in colour ; rostrum and 

 vertex coarsely punctured. Thorax with a very dense and coarse punc- 

 tation, and bearing a few fine hairs. Elytra black, with two small 

 spots at the base of each and a very large apical patch yellow ; they 

 bear each nine broad and deep striae, so that the interstices between 

 these are very narrow; the stride also are coarsely punctured. Legs 

 yellow, with the knees and tarsi a little infuscate. 



Obs. — In size, form, and structure this species seems almost exactly 

 similar to A. inflatus ; but the sculpture of the upper surface is extremely 

 different. 



Tairua (a single specimen sent by Captain Broun). 



989. A. meinertzhag'eni, n.s. Allied to Exilis, but not con- 

 generic Antcnmc slender, twice the length of the body, inserted below 



