181 COLKOPTKKA. 



rugose, the sculpture becomes less distinct behind, iind each, from the 

 middle backwards, has a shullow sutural stria. 



Antennae as long as the head and thoi-ax, joints 3-8 slender, gradually 

 shortened, all, however, are elongate; 9th and 10th obconical, their 

 length about double the breadth, the terminal elongate-oval. 



Underside nigro-t'uscous; the breast nioderately coarsely, the abdo- 

 men more finely punctured; with numerous elongate, depressed grey 

 setae; metasternum not longer than the basal ventral segment, with a 

 m.edian groove behind the middle. 



Male. — ^Legs elongate, basal joint of anterior tarsi oblong and some- 

 what dilated. Elytral apices narrower than those of the female, in 

 which sex they are broad and obtusely rounded. 



Manifestly laiger than any other indigenous species, most nearly re- 

 sembling C. longula, '5060, l)ut with the sides of the thorax evidently 

 denticulated from front to base. 



Length, 3 Tiim. ; breadtli, fully 1 mm. 



Metliven ; Januai-y, 1912. Half a dozen individuals sent by Mr. T. 

 Hall, in company with 3060. 



3556. Corticaria latulipennis sp. nov. 



Convex, rather broad, nitid, very thinly clothed with rather short, 

 slender, greyish, decumbent setae; elytra piceous, liead and thorax some- 

 what rufescent, antennae and legs castaneous, tai'si testaceous but with 

 infuscate terminal joints. 



Head nearly as broad as the thorax, niodeiately coarsely punctured, 

 less closely on the middle. Eyes prominent, occupying more than half 

 of the sides of the liead. Antennae equalling the head and thorax in 

 length, with slendi'r outstanding fuscous setae, 2nd joint oviform, 

 nearly as long as the basal but only half as thick, joints^c-^-S slender 

 and elongate, the 3rd and 4th not (piite as long as the 5th or 6th; club 

 laxly articulated, with elongate-oval joints, the last thicker than the 

 others. Thorax Itroader than long, widest and well rounded at the 

 middle, without perceptible lateral denticles; it is coarsely and mode- 

 rately closely punctured, lightly transversely impressed before the base, 

 and with a punctate, distinct groove just in front of the basal margin, 

 but without any discal foveae. Scutellum broad, rounded behind, some- 

 times bipunctate. Elytra rather broader than the thorax at the base, 

 still bi'oader near the middle, their sides moderately rounded, lateral 

 inai-gins hardly discernible from above; they are broadly impressed 

 near tlie suture before the middle, the shoulders are a little rounded, 

 finely margined, and distinctly elevated, the sutural striae are visible 

 behind, their coarse ))unctation is irregular near the base but seriate 

 beyond; the length is more than double that of the thorax. 



Underside nigrescent, coxae castaneous; the breast and basal ventral 

 segment are moderately coarsely punctured, the other segments indis- 

 tinctly; pubescence scanty, biit concentrated, so as to form a small patch 

 on the terminal segment. 



Somewhat similar to C. dUcoidea, 420, in form, but there the like- 

 ness ends. In one example the hind-body is oviform and not so broad 

 as the others; this, no doubt, is the male. 



Length, IJ nmi. ; breadth, ^ mm. 



Epsom, near the base of Mount Eden. I searched the locality on 

 three occasions, in October, November, and December, 1911, but could 

 not find more tiian a single specimen each time. 



