1140 COLEOPTERA 



A curious but veritable Cyphamis, comparatively rough-looking, 

 an appearance due to the pubescence as well as the sculpture. The 

 punctation is actually finer than in the typical species, but the in- 

 terstices; especially on the wing-cases, are not broad and smooth but 

 appear as if minutely asperate. The large size, distended cheeks, 

 long third antennal joint, convex thorax, and thick palpi will 

 enable it to be identified with certainty. 



Length, 4 ; breadth. If lines. 



One, found at Tairua, 1865. 



Cyphanodes. 



Nov. gen.. 



This genus is instituted for the reception of species which difl'er 

 from Cyphanus as follows : — 



Form more oviform ; thorax not distinctly explanate laterally. 

 The interantennal portion of the head more extended forwards, 

 this part is widely incurved in front, so that the lateral portions 

 appear more or less angulated ; the frontal membranous space is 

 larger, and the labrum is more exposed, though similarly emargi- 

 nate. The prosternal 2^'>'0ccss is broad and not at all acutely pro- 

 duced behind. Labial paljn furcate, as is the case in Cyphanus. 



2022. C. vestitUS, lis. Castaneous, legs and antennae chestnut- 

 red ; clothed with depressed yellowish hairs ; the disc of the thorax, 

 the middle of the basal half and the posterior portion of the elytra, 

 usually nearly nude ; body somewhat convex, not narrow, rather 

 oviform. 



Head broad, yet rather narrower than thorax, closely and mode- 

 rately coarsely punctured. Antennce elongate, basal joint thick, 

 second very short, third slender, about half the length of the 

 elongate fourth joint. Prothorax strongly transverse, marginated 

 and nearly straight laterally, all the angles obtusely rectangular, 

 base bismuate, the apex also sinuous towards the sides ; its sculp- 

 ture rather finer than that of the head. Elytra indistinctly tri- 

 costate, depressed before the middle ; densely punctate, more 

 finely behind than elsewhere, the sculpture of the discoidal portion 

 subgranular. 



Under side often darker than the upper, and more finely, but 

 more densely, sculptured and clothed. 



Length, 3J ; breadth, quite 14- lines. 



Four individuals were found on the Waitakerei Range. 



Atopida. 



2023. A. dorsale, ^-i'- Elongate, subdepressed, moderately 

 shining ; testaceous, the elytral suture and last five joints of the 

 antemicB pitchy-brown, clothed with rather long, almost upright, 

 greyish hairs. 



Head large, nearly as broad as thorax, distinctly yet neither 

 coarsely nor closely granulated ; labrum exposed, and eniarginate at 



