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oval, moderately convex, with numerous minute, hardly discernible 

 setae, the head and extremity of the eyltra bear a few tliat are more 

 distinct, those on the labrum are quite yellow and conspicuous. 



Head moderately coarsely and closely punctate, the lal)i-um still 

 more so. Thorax twice as broad as long, its straight sides gradually 

 narrowed anteriorly, their margins a little thickened towards the base; 

 apex slightly sinuate and margined behind the moderately prominent 

 eyes, with subacute angles; the base obtusely rounded in the middle, 

 feebly sinuate towards the sides, its angles rectangular but partly hidden 

 by the shoulders; its sculpture rather finer than that of the head, near 

 tlie base especially. Scutellum narrowly triangular, finely punctate. 

 Elytra tlirice the length (if tlie thorax, tlie humeral iingles thickly 

 margined and bent inwards at the base thus to some extent overlapping 

 the tlioracic angles; their punctation along the sutural region is 

 similar to that of the thorax, but becomes finer near tlio sides and obsolete 

 near the apices; near each side of the suture, on the middle, there is 

 a series of rather largei' punctures, but there are no other sei-ies, nor 

 any indications of striae. 



Tibae, externally and inwardly, fringed witli short slemk'r setae. 

 the intermediate pair more curvate outwardly than the others ; the 

 anterior broadly grooved along the front or outer face; 3rd tarsal joint 

 of each pair Avitli a well- developed membranous ajjpendage. 



Antennae Avith distinct greyish pubescence, gradually expanded from 

 their 5th joint onwards, joints 8-10 (piadrate, the terminal not quite 

 as long as the preceding two combined. 



Underside distinctly, though not densely, clothed with fine ashy hairs, 

 those on the femora flavescent; its scixlpture like that of P. opaculvs, 

 3231, tlie metasternum moderately c larsely punctured, tVc. 



P. opnruhis, though similai-, has dull elytra with somewhat coriaceous 

 sculjiture, and on each elytron 3 inner series of moderately coarse 

 punctures and about 5 shallow, yet definite, outer striae. The posterior 

 angles of the thorax are not overlapped by the vshoulders, and the 7th 

 and 8th joints of the antennae are obconical. Pascoe's Liochoria huttoni, 

 436, has the head, thorax, and underside " sul)tiliter punctatis " ; it 

 is therefore manifestly different from P. humeralis and P. opaculus. 



Length, 9 mm.; breadth, 5^ nun. 



Wakatipu; January, 1910. Mv specimen was found bv Mr. A. 

 Philpott. 



Group JjLX'ANIDAi;. 



3416. Lissotes philpotti sp. nov. Lissotes Westwood, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 

 p. 254. 



Oblong, moderately convex and nitid; head and thorax nigrescent, 

 elytra dark fuscous with obscurely rufescent sides, legs and antennae 

 rufo-i^iceous. 



Head irregularly and finely jjunctured, more closely and rather more 

 distinctly near each side of the base, more distantly along the middle 

 and on the broad depression before the eyes, it is widely depressed in 

 front; its sides oblique in front, sinuate behind the eyes, with its hind 

 angles projecting outwardly rather further than the front of the thorax. 

 Labrum bisinuatt- at the apex, its outor angles obtusely yet obviously 

 prominent. Thorax almost twice as broad as long, feebly bisinuate and 

 fringed with slender hairs in front, with obtuse angles ; its sides slightly 

 narrowed from the front to beyond the middle, from thence oblique, the 

 posterior angles obsolete; lateral margins slightly reflexed near the 



