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moderate, there are 2 large punctures near each eye and 1 close to each 

 ante}ina. Thorax an eighth broader than long, its frontal half widest and 

 rounded, the basal narrowed and subsinuate, with rectangular angles, the 

 apex Avidely incurved ; disc slightly convex, the median groove well marked 

 throughout, with feeble undulating transverse striae and some fine distant 

 punctures ; the basal foveae well marked, and separated from the angles 

 by slight elevations ; the lateral channels broad and somewhat flattened, 

 with several short transverse striae. Elytra a good deal wider behind than 

 at the base, with slightly oblique apices ; their striae deep near the suture, 

 the outer 4 on each more lightly impressed, the short scutellar sulci distinct ; 

 interstices plane, with numerous fine punctures, some, however, are larger, 

 1 at the base on the 2nd and another on the 3rd near the apex are still larger. 

 The terminal abdominal segment is finely punctate and pubescent above, 

 and has 2 setigerous punctures at the extremity underneath. 



Distinguished from D. ater by the broad and somewhat depressed 

 marginal channels of the thorax, rather less deeply impressed elytral sulci, 

 by the almost testaceous terminal joints of the palpi, and by the first 3 joints 

 of the antennae not being piceous. In D. nioesta the elytral striae are 

 finer or obsolete, and the interstices, according to the description, are with- 

 out impressions. 



Length, 3;^ lines ; breadth, If lines. 



Mount Cook. Elevation about 2,500 ft. I am indebted to Mr. T. F. 

 Cheeseman for my specimen. 



Ohs. — In my three specimens of Chaudoir's D. picea, obtained fi'om the 

 Otira Gorge and Ashburton, the legs, antennae, and palpi are testaceous 

 or nearly so. 



Group Pericalidae. 



3030. Scopodes nigripes sp. nov. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 67. 



Subdepressed, nude, nigrescent ; head and thorax shining cupreous ; 

 elytra subopaque and slightly tinged with red : legs, antennae, and palpi 

 fusco-niger. 



Head with very large prominent eyes, distinctly longitudinally strigose, 

 more finely and irregularly in front. Labrum. smooth and black ; the 

 neck not strigose, but with ill-defined sculpture. Thorax very much nar- 

 rowed towards the obsolete posterior angles, strongly rounded and angu- 

 late near the front ; the median groove well marked, moderately finely, 

 transversely, and irregularly strigose, the middle of the apical portion and 

 the base with punctiform sculpture. Elytra oblong, with rounded shoulders, 

 their apices oblique towards the suture ; the striae are shallow and some- 

 what indefinite, but the 3 foveae on each are large. 



Allied to S. edwardsi, but with different coloration and sculpture. The 

 thorax is much more dilated near the front, and similarly augulated there, 

 the disc is less convex, so that there are no apparent frontal or basal impres- 

 sions. The elytra are broader, but their striae and foveae are not so well 

 marked. 



Length, 2j lines ; breadth, | line. 



Waimarino. A single specimen, under bark, at an elevation of 2,700 ft. 



Group Dryopidae. 



3031. Alloparnus scutellaris sp. nov. Gen., Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1107. 

 Convex, oblong-oval, shining, fusco-piceous, sides of thorax and base 



•of elvtra rufescent ; antennae, palpi, and tarsi ' fusco-testaceous, tibiae 



