CRTPTOPHAGIDAE. 25 



Group C'ryptophagidae. 



3055. Telmatophilus vestitus sp. i\ov. Gen.. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 223. 



Elongate, subdepressed, covered with slender decumbent greyish pubes- 

 cence, slightly nitid ; fuscous, legs fusco-testaceous. 



Head distinctly but not coarsely punctate. Thorax much narrower than 

 the elytra, its length and breadth about equal, its sides nearly straight, with 

 almost rectangular but not acute basal angles, the base moderately rounded : 

 its punctation moderately fine, not so close near the middle of the base, 

 where there is an almost smooth spot ; near each hind angle there is a slight 

 transverse impression. Scutelliwi transversal. Elytra a little convex, base 

 incurved : their sculpture like that of the thorax, but becoming a little fin<M- 

 behind, where there is a sutural stria on each. 



Antennae fusco-testaceous, their terminal 2 joints rather darker ; basal 

 joint longer and much stouter than the 2nd, 3rd obviously longer than the 

 contiguous ones, 5th and 7th each a little longer than 6th or 8th, terminal 

 3 longer than broad. 



Underside evidently pubescent, shining, fuscous, distinctly punctured. 

 Metasternuni broadly grooved behind. 



The basal 3 tarsal joints are less strongly developed than in T. depressus : 

 these, and the general appearance, are more like T. olivascens (1959), which, 

 however, has a narrower head, differently formed antennae, more flavescent 

 clothing, and rather coarser, slightly rugose elytral sculpture. 



Length, 1|-1| Hnes ; breadth, f line. 



Mount Cook. Mr. T. F. Cheeseman. Eight specimens. 



3056. Micrambina helmsi Reitter. 



Elongate, subparallel, rufo-testaceous, clothed with fine yellowish hairs, 

 intermingled with longer erect ones on the elytra. Antennae moderatelv 

 slender, attaining the base of thorax, the terminal 3 joints equallv broad, 

 penultimate joints broader than long. Head short, trigonal, and, including 

 the eyes, narrowex than front of thorax, closely punctured. Thorax trans- 

 verse, about a third broader than long, narrowed posteriorly, front angles 

 cailose. almost obliquely prominent, hind angles rectangular, disc sparsely 

 punctated, obliquely impressed ])cfore the base. Elytra somewhat wider 

 than thorax, more than thrice its length, apices conjointly rounded, elongate 

 and subparallel, moderately closely punctured almost in rows. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Greymouth. Mr. R. Hehns. 



3057. Micrambina insignis Reitter. 



Elongate, shining ferruginous. Antennae slender, these and the legs 

 testaceous ; clothed with fine yellowish hairs intermingled with remark- 

 a,bly long erect ones. Thorax transversely cordate, front angles cailose and 

 a little deflexed, strongly obliquely impressed near the base, with a minute 

 antescutellar fovea. Elytra clistinctly broader than thorax, obloug-oval. 

 finely punctured in rows, becoming obsolete behind, smooth on the middle, 

 and distinctly transversely impressed before the middle. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Grevmouth. Mr. R, Helms. 



