322 COLBOPTERA. 



QJ)S. — 1 am indelited to tlie same gentleman, as well as Mr. M. 0. Pasco, 

 of Qneenstown. for a few specimens of a varietal form of D. nrencharis. 2036, 

 with piceous antennae and legs. In the male the basal joint of the anterior 

 tarsi has the same sort of spiniform process as D. philpodi. This is also the 

 case with Dr. Sharp's D. hehnsl. 2035. 



Group Tenebrionidae. 



3751. Pheloneis appositus sp. iiov. Pheloiieis Pascoe, Jourii. Eiit. 11, 

 1866, p. -1:83. 



Suboblong, slightly convex, nitid, glab]'ous ; fusco-niger, legs piceous, 

 antennae, palpi, and tarsi fusco-rufous. 



Head short, immersed up to the middle of eyes, forehead obtusely 

 rounded in the middle ; its surface irregularly and distinctly but not coarsely 

 punctured, with a longitudinal interoculai' impression and a smooth space 

 between the antennae. Thorax 3 mm. long by 4i mm. broad in the middle, 

 which is widest, well rounded but hardly angulate, its sides with distinct 

 simple margins, gradually narrowed towards the obtuse anterior angles, 

 similarly narrowed, but not distinctly sinuate behind, the rectangular 

 posterior angles resting on the elytra ; apex moderately deeply arcuate- 

 emarginate, more distinctly margined than the subtruncate base ; the punc- 

 tation of the disc is a little irregular, moderately close, and rather finer than 

 that of the head, there is a shallow fovea near each side erf the base, usually 

 an elongate irregular impression at each side, and a shallow, sometimes 

 obsolete groove along the middle. Scutellum short, smooth, subtriangular. 

 Elytra with well-developed margins, more than double the length of the 

 thorax, rather broader than it is at the base, their sides very slightly rounded 

 and widened as far as the hind thighs, but considerably narrowed towards 

 the extremity ; they are finely and regularly substriate-punctate near the 

 suture, rather more finely near the sides, but on the intervening dorsal space 

 the sculpture is sometimes interrupted yet without elevations, the inter- 

 stices are finely and moderately closely punctured, though to the unaided 

 eye they seem smooth. 



Legs nearly glabrous, having only some fine fulvescent setae near tlie 

 extremity of the tibiae, the anterior pair more curvate than the others ; the 

 front femora obtusely angulate or dentiform. 



Antennae with distinct yellowish pubescence from the 3rd joint onwards, 

 that joint twice as long as the 2nd and evidently longer than the 4th. 



Underside moderately closely, rather finely and irregularly sculptured, 

 flanks of prosternum minutely and distantly punctate. Posterior inter- 

 coxal process broadly rounded. 



Most nearly resembles P. nigritulus, 1669; smaller, less oblong, the 

 sculpture finer throughout, the thoracic apex less deeply emarginate with 

 more rounded angles ; in 1669 these angles are subacute and more promi- 

 nent and the forehead is medially truncate. In P. hanseni, 1668, the elytra) 

 striae are unusually deep and regular. 



Length, 1 1 J uim. ; breadth, 5 J mm. 



Ben Lomond, Otago. Three examples taken in December, 1912, by 

 Mr. A. Philpott. 



Ohs. — Pheloneis was instituted by Pascoe in 1866 for the reception of 

 White's Adelium harpaloides, 690, its chief distinguishing character, " Elytra 

 ])rothoraci arete applicata," correctly describes that part of the New Zea- 

 land species placed in Adelium by Pascoe himself. Bates, Dr. Sharp, and all 

 except two (689 and 1495) of those described by myself. The antennal 



