176 ("OLEOPTERA. 



iV. vonCoriiis, 3086, most nearly resembles this species, wliicli, on 

 account of the indefinite sculpture, has been difficult to describe. \A'hen 

 examined from above the pale elytra seem to be nearly plane and obtusely 

 truncate at the top of the dark posterior declivity, on wliich. liaH'-way 

 down, there is a pair of paler nodosities 



Length, 3 nun. ; breadtli, 1^ mm. 



McClennan's Bush, near Methvoii. Two examples sent to me by 

 Mr. T. Hall on the loth March, 1912, both obtained from leaf -mould at 

 a height of 1,500 ft. 



3543. Notoulus longipes sp. nov. 



Oblong, opaque, fuscous; elytra covered with tawny curled setae, 

 the head and thorax more thinly clothed with yellowish ones; legs and 

 antennae ferruginous. 



This species is like 3'. fru/icofus, but is larger, with distinctly longer 

 legs, more prominent eyes, and differently formed antennae. 



The elytra are almost flat along the middle, each, on toj) of the 

 posterior declivity, is distinctly, contiguously trinodose; there is a 

 smaller nodosity near the side and slightly in advance, and in line with 

 this, but before the middle, a larger one, the basal elevation is more 

 elongate, and the shoulders are somewhat prominent, the apices are 

 slightly dehiscent, and the declivity is not nodose. 



Antennae nearly glabrous, shorter than the thorax, their basal joint 

 more than half-hidden, 2nd thick and hardly any longer than broad, 

 9th scarcely broader than the 8th; club large, its first joint transverse, 

 the terminal as broad but nearly twice as long. 



Underside dull rufo-fuscous, with numerous short, depressed yellowish 

 setae; 3rd and 5th ventral segments finely and rather distantly granu- 

 late, the 3rd more distinctly near the sides, the 4th with a transverse 

 series. 



Length, 3§mni.; breadth, 1^ nun. 



Hump Ridge, near Invercargill. Two examples found by Mr. A. 

 Philpott in February, 1912. 



3544. Bitoma obsoleta sp. nov. Bitoma Herbst, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 192. 



Elongate, subdepressed, opaque; nigi-escent, legs and antennae infus- 

 cate, the former paler; irregularly and thinly clothed with distinct, 

 decumbent pale-yellowish setae. 



Head almost as large as the thorax, rather Hat, with indistinct 

 granular sculpture, very slightly elevated over the antennal cavities. 

 Eyes moderately prominent. Thorax of about equal length and breadth, 

 ■widest at the obtuse anterior angles, which, however, do not extend as 

 far forwards as the middle of the I'ounded apex; the sides are some- 

 vliat explanate in front, gradually narrowed backwards, and only indis- 

 tinctly sei'rate. jiosterior angles indefinite, but not rounded ; d^isc slightly 

 uneven, with 5 shallow, ill-defined, obsolete impressions, its granular 

 sculpture hai'dly discernible. Scutellum subcpiadi'ate. Elytra thrice 

 the length of the thorax, i-ather broa<ler than it is at the base, very 

 gi"adually and slightly expanded jxisteriorly, with strongly rounded, 

 feebly divergent apices; they ai'e broadly but not at all deeply depressed 

 before the middle, and seem to be finely seriate-punctate, or granulate, 

 when examined in different ways; on each elyt)-on there is a sliglit, 

 elongate basal elevation, and fuither back, in line with the 1st, there 



