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The intervals between the punctures on the thorax are minutely and 

 closely sculptured, and its pubescence is scanty, like that of the head. 

 ' Length, lJ-1^ lines ; breadth, ^ line. 

 Mount Cook. .Several specimens taken off Veronicaf by Mr. Cheeseman. 



Group Cleridae. 



3081. Phymatophaea abnormis sp. nov. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 334. 



Like the typical species, but exhibiting the following discrepances : 

 Thorax shining, fulvescent, bearing yellowish setae, with smaller lateral 

 prominences, its punctation indistinct or obsolete. Head not bitubercu- 

 late, the interocular space nearly plane, or only sUghtly bi-impressed. The 

 shoulders are not nodiform, and the punctures behind them are smaller and 

 more regular. Antennae elongate ; basal joint stout, moderately long, 

 curved in front ; 2nd small, yet as long as broad ; 3rd nearly as long as 

 the 4th and 5th combined ; 6th longer than its predecessor ; 7th smaller 

 than the 2nd. Club large, its basal joint gradually expanded apically, and 

 as long as the preceding 5 joints taken together ; the next one rather shorter 

 but more dilated : 3rd broadly oviform, but very slender near its base. 



The structure of the antennae is due, no doubt, to malformation, as 1 

 can only detect 6 joints in one, though there are 7 in the other, instead of 

 8, the normal number. The club is unusually elongate. 



Length, 3 lines ; breadth, f line. 



Waimarino. January, 1909. Unique. 



Group COLYDIDAE. 



3082. Epistranus sharpi Reitter. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 202. 



Fusco-fulvous, antennae and legs rufous ; rugosely tuberculate, the 

 tubercles with short setae, variegated with chalky-white, thorax in front 

 transversely sulcate. Like a highly arched Tarphius. 



Thorax almost as long as broad, narrowed posteriorly, with a deep frontal 

 arcuate furrow. Elytra not contiguous to thorax, a little longer than broad, 

 rounded, nearly perpendicular behind, sculptured like the thorax, between 

 the tubercles with a rough chalky case, forming a Imiate sutural spot, there 

 are also some smaller spots ; and generally 4 white spots on the thorax ; 

 sometimes the chalky spots occupy most of the surface, so that the sculp- 

 ture is thus rendered indistinct. 



Length, 1-8 mm. 



Greymouth. Mr. R. Helms. 



3083. Epistranus fulvus Reitter. 



Fulvous, tuberculate-rugose, the tubercles bearing setae, not at all 

 chalky. Thorax before the middle transversely sulcate, and longitudinally 

 canaliculate. Smaller than E. sharpi, reddish-yellow, similarly sculptured. 

 Perhaps only a small variety of that species. 



Length, 1-5 mm. 



Greymouth. Mr. R. Helms. 



3084. Coxelus helmsi Reitter. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 195. 



Oblong, subparallel, nigro-piceous, variegated with red, covered with 

 black and fulvous setae. 



Thorax rather broader than long, sometimes quite ferruginous, the. 

 sides with short setae. Elytra wider than thorax, their margins hispid. 



