1296 COLEOPTEllA 



The surface is apparently of a dark or obscure-red colour, closely 

 covered with a line, closely-adpressed, yellow pile, but in parts this 

 pile is rej^laced by a pile of a darker colour, thus giving rise to a 

 maculated appearance, most of the spots being of small size and 

 round in shape. The antcnnce are rather stout, and are not hispid ; 

 each joint bears rather scanty pale pile on the basal portion, and 

 this therefore appears paler than the apical part of each joint. The 

 vertex is deeply channelled, and between the antennae there is a 

 rather deep depression, which is continued on the front of the head 

 as a fine channel. The thorax is narrow^er than the elytra, and is 

 not so long as broad ; on each side it is much dilated to form a 

 large angular prominence ; the siu'face is not at all tuberculate, only 

 a little uneven, and bears numerous small spots of the kind already 

 described. The surface of each elytron is elevated near the base on 

 each side of the scutellum, and there is also on the middle of each 

 an obscure longitudinal folding or elevation ; there is a large, irregu- 

 lar, curved, dark mark on each, as well as numerous small spots. 

 The rather stout, short legs are destitute of setge, but are clothed 

 with fine pile ; the femora are a little maculate, and there is a dark 

 mark on each tibia below the middle. 



The female has the apical ventral segment very largely im- 

 pressed, and at each side bears elongate pubescence, which projects 

 towards the middle, and so much conceals the depression. The 

 male is unknown. 



Two specimens of this species were sent from Duuedin by Pro- 

 fessor Huttou in 1877. 



2279. M. 8Brata, n-s. Shining, bronzed-brown ; tibiae and 

 antennse obscure fusco-rufous, base of joints 3-11 of the latter grey- 

 ish ; tibiae near the extremity fringed with short black hairs ; tarsi 

 with grey and black pubescence in distinct patches ; base of femora 

 paler than the darker maculate portion ; body clothed with very fine 

 ash-coloured and coarser grey hairs, these latter causing the spotted 

 appearance of the elytra. 



Head with a few coarse punctures behind, its short frontal 

 portion more abruptly vertical than appears to be the case in 

 M. marmoratus, judgnig by the description only. Tliorax broader 

 than long, sides tuberculate at the middle, more slightly constricted 

 in front than behind ; surface uneven, densely, irregularly, and finely 

 rugose, not distinctly punctured, and not in the least maculate, the 

 pubescence being thinly and uniformly distributed. Elytra, at base, 

 a little broader than middle of thorax, slightly and gradually nar- 

 rowed backwards ; beyond the scutellum there is a broad, elongate, 

 obtuse elevation on each elytron ; outside this a long curvate de- 

 pression extends from the shoulder to the suture a little way behind 

 the middle femur ; there is also a longitudinal elevation (not a 

 carina) beginning behind the shoulder but not reaching the apex, 

 the side outside this being flattened or depressed ; there are very 

 few punctures near the base, and, iipparently, none at all behind ; 

 the grey hairs produce a spotted appearance behind, form a sort of 



