3-i6 COLEOPTBRA. 



Takitimu Mountains. One found l)v Mr. A. Fhilpott. of Invercargill, on 

 the 3rd .lanuarv. 1913. 



3782. Allastena piliventris sp. nov. AJIastena Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 

 p. 1318. 



Oblong, subdepressed, nitid ; bearing only very few fine suberect greyish 

 setae ; bronzed-black, legs and basal joint of antennae fusco-testaceous, the 

 other joints and the tarsi more infuscate. 



Head almost as broad, eyes included, as front of thorax, nearly smooth. 

 Thorax hardly a third broader than hmg, its sides and base distinctly mar- 

 gined ; the latter straight in the middle but a little curved near the sides 

 with indistinct angles, apex truncate, its angles obtusely rectangular but 

 hardlv at all incrassate, the sides slightly narrowed behind ; its punctation 

 irregular, rather shallow, moderately close, more distinct near the base, with 

 very finely sculptured intervals. Scutellum smooth, broad, triangular. 

 Elytra oWong, parallel, with broadly rounded apices, quite thrice the length 

 of the thorax and evidently broader than it is at the base ; they are dis- 

 tinctly and closely punctured, and in some aspects appear transversely 

 rugose, with very shallow humeral impressions. Pygidium broad, bluish, 

 but little exposed, finely punctate, with numerous elongate grey hairs, near 

 the sides especially. 



Antennae finely pubescent, rather shorter than the body. 3id joint 

 rather longer than 2nd, but shorter than succeeding ones. 



Legs moderately elongate ; tibiae gradually thickened, the posterior 

 bent inwardly, more incrassate at the extremity, and with a well-marked 

 groove there for the reception of the laterally compressed tarsal joint ; 

 basal joint of the other tarsi oblong and rather broad, the next very slender 

 at the base, the penultimate moderately expanded and bilobed. the claws 

 subdentate at the base and rather small. 



More nigrescent than the type of the genus, 2318, the legs and tarsi 

 darker, the thorax more transverse, with coarser and closer punctation, its 

 fi"ont angles not distinctly thickened, the scutellum larger, but chiefly re- 

 markable on account of the thickly pubescent terminal segment of the 

 hind-body. 



Length, 3 mm. ; l)readtli, Ij mm. 



Ben Lomond, Otago. A single individual from Mr. A. Philpott, of 

 Invercargill, earlv in December, 1912. 



John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.- 1915. 



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