1254 COLEOPTERA 



almost entirely filled. Metasternum long, apparentl^^ impunctate, 

 grooved behind the middle. Abdomen piceous, distinctly punctured, 

 its yellow hairs more conspicuous than those on the breast. 



Length, 2^-3 lines ; breadth, f line. 



Boatman's. I am indebted to Mr. A. T. Cavell for my specimens. 



2209. P. gracilis, ''•&• Parallel, elongate, convex, slender, 

 shining, rufo-castaneous, darker behind, legs and antennae reddish- 

 testaceous. 



Head simple, with very few fine punctures, appearing almost 

 smooth, bearing conspicuous yellow^ hairs behind. Prothorax cylin- 

 dric, its sides deeply scooped out ; finely and remotely punctated, 

 the common densely-sculptured part behind the middle rather indis- 

 tinct and longitudinally divided by a fine impression. Elytra striate- 

 punctate, third and fourth striae separated from the base by the 

 confluent raised interstices ; interstices finely and very sparsely 

 punctured, third and sixth horizontally protuberant behind, the 

 intermediate ones also terminating horizontally and abruptly ; apical 

 portion vertical, densely and minutely sculptured ; they are sparingly 

 clothed Vvdth slender yellowish hairs, but, behind, the hairs are 

 bright-yellow, coarser, more numerous, and stand out from the 

 surface. 



This, the most slender New Zealand species, is distinguished 

 from all the others by its feebly-punctured head and the protuberant 

 apices of all the elytral interstices ; these are on the same plane as 

 the disc and sides, whereas in the male of P. apicalis the fifth 

 interstices are the most prominent. 



3 . Length, 2^ lines ; breadth, i line. 



Midhirst, near Mount Egmont. One example. 



Group-ANTHRIBID^. 



Anthribus. 



2210. A. tuberOSUS, n.s. {Sharp; Trans. Boy. Dub. Sac, 

 1886, p. 433.) Nigricans, dense vestitus, rostro elytrorumque lateri- 

 bus griseo-ochraceis, antennis pedibusque testaceis, his conspicuo 

 maculatis ; elytris tuberculis grossis ornatis. 



Long., 4Jmm. 



This species does not appear to be very closely allied to any 

 other, but may be placed near A. discedens. It can be readily dis- 

 tinguished by the very large basal tubercles of the elytra, and the 

 fact that the sides of the wing-cases are covered by pallid, the 

 middle by dark, pubescence. Antennce not so long as the body, 

 yellow ; first joint covered in front by white pubescence ; second 

 joint very feebly pubescent, oval ; third much longer than the fol- 

 lowing, swollen at tip ; 6-8 subequal, each slightly swollen at the 

 tip ; ninth as long as the eighth, equal to the two following to- 

 gether, and forming with them a well - marked club. Bostrum 

 short and broad, densely covered with very pallid griseo-ochra- 



