g80 COLEOPTERA 



nearly plane, simple ; marginal punctures large. Legs stout ; middle 

 tihicB. evidently sulcate externally, posterior less so ; three basal 

 joints of anterior tarsi in the male dilated, with sponge-like and cili- 

 ated soles, the basal articulation subtriangular, the others cordi- 

 form, the joints of the others grooved above. Underside shining 

 black, coxae and trochanters rufescent, not punctated, but scored 

 with many fine, irregular, linear impressions. 



$ . All the tarsi striate. 



Larger than H. viaorimis, the form of the thorax totally differ- 

 ent, more nearly resembling that of the European Calathus cisteloides, 

 but more quadrate. 



Length, 5 lines ; breadth, if. 



I found a male at Whangarata, near Tuakau, and a female just 

 outside the kahikatea bush near Ngaruawahia, Waikato. 



Obs. — This is one of the genera instituted by the late Baron 

 de Chaudoir, and treated by Lacordaire as one of the fifty-nine 

 synonyma of Feronia. The scutellum being without basal striae 

 separates it from Holcaspis : the terminal joints of the palpi are 

 narrowed apically, and the labial briefly truncated ; the maxillary, 

 though not pointed, are not truncate. 



Group-ANISOD ACT YLID^ . 



Lecanomerus (p. 46)- 



1565. Ij. stenopus, "-s. Ovate-oblong, rather narrow, convex, 

 shining ; head and tliroat black, elytra greenish-black, their apical 

 margins rufescent ; legs, palpi, and two basal joints of antennoB fulvo- 

 testaceous, remaining articulations fuscous. 



Head smooth, frontal foveas represented by oblique furrows ex- 

 tending from the eyes to the suture of the epistome. Prothorax 

 transversely quadrate, not short, regularly convex, finely marginated, 

 hind angles much rounded, obsolete ; dorsal line feebly impressed, 

 basal foveae indistinct. Elytra ovate-oblong, not broad, striate, 

 interstices slightly convex ; they are not strongly sinuated apicaJly. 



Not at all like L. latimanus ; distinguished from L. ohesulns and 

 L. fidiginosus by its more oblong or narrower contour, by the shape 

 of the thorax, which is regularly rounded laterally, with its posterior 

 angles more curved towards the base, and by the almost total 

 absence of thoracic fovea3 and punctation. The anterior tarsi are 

 narrower than in any other New Zealand species. 



$ . Length, 2^ lines ; breadth, i. 



One, Howick, Paparoa District, near Auckland. 



Group-BEMBIDIIDiE. 



Bembidium (p- 55)- 



1566. B. tekapoense, n-s. Shining nigro-aeneous, tibice and 

 palpi piceous ; the extremities of these latter, and the tarsi, pitchy- 

 red. 



Head moderate, greenish, frontal foveas large and elongate ; eyes 

 moderately prominent. Prothorax cordate, rather small, well rounded 

 laterally, gradually narrowed until near the base, where its sides are 



