342 COLEOI'TEHA. 



are numerous coarse punctures near the base and a few irregular series 

 extending as far back as the oblique fasciae. 



Antennae concolorous, minutely sculptured, very scantily pubescent, and 

 bearing only a few rather short dark setae ; their 3rd joint attains the 

 shoulder, the 10th almost reaches the apex. 



Legs with fine grey hairs, intermediate and posterior tibiae fringed 

 externally below the middle with nigrescent setae. 



The absence of thoracic tubercles and the slight basal elevations of the 

 elytra remove this fi'om the neighbourhood of the more typical species, 

 whilst the coloration, sculj^ture. and featjiei-like vestiture distinguish it fi'om 

 the others. 



?. Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Mount Hutt. Unique ; captured bv Mr. T. Hall at an elevation of about 

 4,500 ft. , on the 25th January, 1913. 



Group Cryptocephalidae. 



3776. Arnomus fulvus sp. nov. Artiomus Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 



p. 619. 



Oblong, slightly convex, nitid, glabrous ; fulvous, slightly aeneous, head, 

 and thorax more rufescent than the elytra, which last are a little infuscate 

 towards the extremity, terminal joints of antennae still darker. 



Head rather finely yet quite distinctly but not at all closely punctured, 

 with a shallow longitudinal median impression behind ; it is, including the 

 large prominent eyes, rather wider than the thoracic apex. Antennae nmch 

 longer than the head and thorax, a little pubescent towards the extremity ; 

 basal joint subpyriform. not as long as the 3rd, 2nd still shorter, joints 3 1 1 

 about equally elongate. Thorax twice as broad as long, apex truncate, the 

 base widely l)isinuate, with almost acutely rectangular angles ; sides finely 

 margined, widest behind the middle, straight yet gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly, more abruptly near the base, which is finely margined ; its sur- 

 face slightly uneven, distinctly punctate, much more coarsely than the head, 

 very irregularly and somewhat distantly on some parts. Scutellum mode- 

 rately large, subtriangular, quite smooth. Elytra a little broader than 

 thorax at the base, four times its length, slightly expanded posteriorly, 

 with broadly rounded apices ; they are moderately closely punctured, 

 rather more coarsely than the thorax, more distantly behind, and there is 

 an impression near each shoulder. Pygidium much exposed, with fine grey 

 pubescence. 



Legs stout and very elongate, tibiae straight ; basal joint of tarsi sub- 

 cylindric and longer than the following two combined, the 3rd with elongate 

 lobes. 



Underside fulvous, the penultimate ventral segment with a large sub- 

 apical fovea. 



A. sighatus, 3008, the nearest ally, may be at once distinguished by the 

 dark occiput and sutural region of the elytra, by the more obviously })unctate 

 head, and much less prominent eyes. 



Length, 4|- mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Longwood Range, Southland. One only, found in -January. 1913. i»y 

 Mr. A. Philpott, during a wet and stormy sojourn of three days. 



3777. Arnomus vicinus sp. nov. 



Shining, fulvous, head and thorax rufescent, the back of the former, 

 middle of the latter, and the scutellar region aeneo-fuscous. 



