392 COI.EOPTERA. 



No species we possess resonil)l('s this. Bate's Ceratognatkus alhoguttatus 

 (447) is not a New Zealand species ; its real habitat is Moieton Bay. 



Length, 9 mm. ; breadth, 3 J mm. 



Routeburn, north of Lake Wakatipu. One fonnd by Mr. T. Hall, under 

 a log, minus an antenna, on the 10th February, 1914. 



Oroup Tenebrionidae. 



3849. Syrphetodes variegatus sp. nov. Syrphetodes Pascoe, Man. N.Z. 

 Coleopt., p. 351. 



Uneven, opaque ; fuscous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; covered 

 with small, depressed, tawny, and ferruginous squamae, antennae and legs 

 inclusive ; the club densely and finely pubescent. 



Head only half the width of thorax, without discernible punctation. 

 Thorax; in the middle, fully a third broader than long, but with the anterior 

 angles projecting as far as but distant from the front of the eyes, it is 

 romided and widest near the middle, slightly and widely sinuate anteriorly, 

 a good deal narrowed behind, with rectangular basal angles ; apex deeply 

 sinuate near each side, emarginate in the middle and Mith a pair of obtuse 

 elevations there, and another pair of contiguous ones just behind the middle 

 of the disc, these are separated by a bare linear impression extending to 

 the base, there is a nearly bare, oblique frontal depression midway between 

 the middle and each side, there are no visible pimctures ; the sides are 

 explanate. Scutellum strongly transverse. Elytra subcordate, about 

 double the length and nearly twice the width of thorax at the base, which 

 is somewhat oblique- towards the obtusely laterally prominent shoulders ; 

 their sides are explanate and minutely serrate, somewhat sinuate behind 

 the shoulders, with obtuse divergent apices ; the surface is uneven, very 

 irregularly punctate, but subseriately near the suture behind, there are 

 several granules near the base, and along each side about 8 coarse 

 foveae ; on each elytron there is a basal elevation, and behind this a large 

 obtuse tubercle, just outside the latter a smaller nodosity is covered with 

 rufescent scales ; near the other large tubercle on top of the posterior 

 declivity there is an inner and a pair of outer ones, all smaller and covered 

 wdth reddish squamae, near the extremity there is a less distinct, sometimes 

 elongate elevation. Tibiae only slightly flexuous. 



In Pascoe's S. marginatns (640) there seem to be no large tubercles 

 before the middle of the elytra. Sharp's S. bxUatus (2039) is described 

 as having a sharp tubercle, directed outwards, behind each shoulder, the 

 dorsum has 4 large and a pair of smaller basal tubercles, but nothing 

 is said about punctures or granules. S. crenatns (641), described from a 

 much damaged specimen forty years ago, is certainly the nearest species. 



Length, 10 mm.; breadth, 52 mm. 



Routeburn. Shaken off mossy trees at night by Mr. T. Hall. Two 

 examples. 



3850. Pheloneis halli sp. nov. Pheloneis Pascoe. 



Oblong, slightly convex, nitid, subglabrous ; of a reddish coppery- 

 bronze hue, legs rufo-piceous, tarsi and basal joints of antennae fusco- 

 rufous, remaining articulations and the terminal of the palpi dull fuscous. 



Head a little uneven, distinctly and closely })unctate in front, less closely 

 behind ; the epistome with 4 coarser setigerous punctures. Thorax, in 



