178 (.'oi.Kor ri;iiA. 



Underside dark fuscous or somewhat rufesceiit, witli numerous fine 

 yellow setae, head punctate behind, the breast and abdomen distinctly 

 and rather evenly granulate. 



('. Iirluixi, ."{OS-i, may be distinguished at a glance by the numerous 

 erect blackish setae, and the pair of dark sutural crests on the summit 

 of the hind slope. C . eloiii/atus, 2764, is concolorous, slightly lai-ger, 

 and bears more evenly distributed vestiture. Its thorax is nearly a third 

 longer, and its shoulders are obtuse. 



Length, 3 mm.; breadth, quite 1 nun. 



McClennan's Bush and Puddiiig Hill, near Methven. About twenty 

 specimens were received from Mr. T. Hall during April and May, 1912, 

 all taken from leaf-mould at an elevation of about 1,500 ft. After 

 spending an entire day in their examination, I came to the conclusion 

 that they are representatives of a single vaiiable spec-ics. 



3546. Heterargus parallelus sp. nov. Heterargus'^\v<uy, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 1085. 



Elongate, subparallel, only slightly convex, without nodifoi-m eleva- 

 tions, subopaque; obscurely rufescent, the hinder part of elytra and 

 sometimes the middle of th(U-ax fuscous; thinly clothed with short,' 

 slender, yellow setae. 



Head granulate behind, the forehead a little depressed and maiked 

 off by a curved interantennal impression, the clypeus very prominent. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, deeply sinuate near each side in fiont 

 so that the angles appear prolonged as far as the minute e3-es ; its 

 flattened sides are a little rounded neai- the front but only obsoletely 

 serrate; base with a deep sinuosity near each side, its angles subacute 

 and directed backwards; the surface is a little uneven, having a }Dair 

 of short frontal and oblique basal elevations, and it is covered with 

 somewhat flattened granules. Elytra twice the length of the thorax, 

 scarcely at all broader than it is at the base, with subrectangular 

 shoulders; they bear regular series of small suboblong granules; inter- 

 stices linear, the 3rd slightly elevated near the base and behind, the 

 5th less distinctly so, not at all at the base. 



Antennae shorter than the thorax, their basal joint almost wholly 

 exposed, quite the length of the 2nd, and rather thicker; 3rd slender, 

 longer than broad; joints 4-6 subquadrate, 7th and 8th moniliform, 

 9th rather broader; club abruptly enlarged, biarticulate. Tibiae finely 

 setose. 



Underside dull rufo-fuscous, with some minute setae, covered with 

 flattened granules, the flanks of the presternum included, bisulcate 

 between the front coxae, the back of the head transversely rugose. 



This most nearly resembles H . suhaequus, 3406, which, however, is 

 more slender, with less prominent shoulders, the base of the thorax is 

 more rounded in the middle, and the sculpture is somewhat different. 



Length, 3-3| mm. ; breadth, l.\-H mm. 



Hump Ridge, near Invercargill. Found bv Mr. A. Philpott in 

 February, 1912, at an altitude of 3,000 ft. 



3547. Gathocles angulifer sp. nov. Gathocles Broun, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 1086. 



Ro])ust, oblong, moderately convex, subopaque ; fuscous, the antennae, 

 tarsi, the front and sides of the thorax and indefinite marks on the 

 elytra rufescent; sparingly clothed with erect, slender, yellowish setae. 



