ilKLANUKVIiJAK. 325 



Underside fuscous, very finely punctate, with depressed slender ashy 

 pubescence. Basal and 2nd ventral segments a little longer than the 

 tollowing ones, 5th subtruncate at the extremity. 



Head immersed up to the eyes, with a slender carina behind these, and 

 with a pair of elongate fovae underneath. Anterioi' coxae prominent, their 

 cavities almost touching the apical margin, the intervening process triangular 

 and acutely prolonged between the coxae. Mesosternal process elongate, 

 broader in front than behind, extending to the hind part of and sepaiating the 

 intermediate coxae. Metasternum elongate, convex, grooved along the centre. 



The three spots on each elytron are distinctive. 



Length (head exclusive), 3 mm. ; breadth, 1 mm. 



Longwood Range, Southland. My specimen was found in Januarv, 1913, 

 by Mr. A. Philpott. 



3754. Hylobia acuminata sp. nov. 



Elongate, attenuate towards both extremities, moderately arched above, 

 subopaque ; clothed with slender, inconspicuous, decumbent yellowish-grey 

 pubescence ; the head, all but the apex of the thorax, the basal portion of 

 the elytra, a pair of subcontiguous spots on each elytron towards the ex- 

 tremity, and the apex itself fuscous ; the rest of the surface, including a 

 small humeral spot, more or less fusco-testaceous, legs and antennae similarly 

 variegated. 



Head moderately finely yet quite distinctly punctate. Eyes large, trans- 

 \ersal, slightly emarginate in front, with coarse facets. Thorax a little 

 broader than long, curvedly narrowed anteriorly, the apex broadly rounded, 

 base widely bisinuate, but obtusely rounded in the middle ; its sculpture 

 indefinite, not punctiform, somewhat undulate ; at each side of the middle 

 there is a large, shallow fovea, the lateral pubescence is feather-like. Scutel- 

 lum transverse, finely punctured. Elytra four times the length of the thorax, 

 of the same width as it is at the base, gradually but considerably narrowed 

 posteriorly, with subacute apices ; sutural striae well marked throughout, 

 their sculpture resembles that of the thora.x. 



Legs finely pubescent ; posterior tibiae slightly shorter than the basal 

 joint of the tarsi, their pectinate spurs equal, almost as long as that joint ; 

 spurs of the intermediate half the length of the 1st tarsal joint ; penultimate 

 joint of the front and middle pairs of tarsi distinctly bilobed. 



Antennae filifoini, reaching just beyond the shoulders ; 2nd joint slightly 

 shorter than the basal, both oblong, neither very thick, remaining articu- 

 lations elongate, very gradually and slightly thickened and successively 

 shortened, 11th elongate-oval. 



Li sternal structure similar to H . sexnotata, but with the hind-body much 

 more attenuate posteriorly. The surface rather less nitid, the eyes rather 

 larger and with coarser facets, the elytral striae distinct. The coloration 

 is more like that of H. nuheculosa, 712, but the marks are entirely different ; 

 the antennae of that species are shorter and thicker, joints 7-10 being sub- 

 .|uadrate. 



Length (head exclusive), 3.^ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Longwood Range, Southland. Unique ; another of Mr. Philpott's 

 captures in Januaiy, 1913. 



3755. Hylobia arboricola sj). nov. 



Elongate, slightly arched above, moderately narrowed towards the ex- 

 tremities, rather glossy ; covered with decumbent, slender, yet quite distinct, 



