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the middle, a third broader than long, apex medially truncate but obliquely 

 prolonged at the sides, its obtuse angles extending to the middle of the 

 eyes ; the sides distinctly and evenly margined, gently rounded at and 

 before the middle, narrowed but with straight sides near the base, which is 

 feebly and widely emarginate, with rectangular angles ; disc moderately 

 finely and closely punctured, more irregularly and less closely at the sides, 

 discal groove shallow and abbreviated, with a broad but not very definite 

 impression near each of the anterior and posterior angles and a median 

 fovea at each side. Scutellum broad, nearly smooth. Elvtra almost 

 elongate-cordate, rather wider than thorax at the base, their well-developed 

 lateral margins becoming slender towards the apices ; their sculpture very 

 irregular, consisting of interrupted, moderately finely punctured striae near 

 the suture, but along the greater portion towards the sides the striae are 

 so much abbreviated and interrupted that they leave elongate, almost 

 confluent, irregularly formed, nearly flat spaces, almost quite smooth. There 

 are a few slender suberect setae, and very minute ones can be detected on 

 the thorax. 



Anterior tibiae stout, evenly curvate externally, with short flavescent 

 setae below the middle of the inner side. Penultimate tarsal joint excavate 

 above but not truly bilobed. 



P. chnlmeri (1405), which most nearly resembles this in coloration, is 

 really very different in other details. 



Length, 11 mm. ; breadth, 4| mm. 



HoUyford, north of Lake Wakatipu. A single specimen of this con- 

 spicuous species was captured on the 19th February, 1914, at a height of 

 3,500 ft., by Mr. T. Hall, in whose honour it has been named. 



3851. Pheloneis angulatus sp. nov. 



Suboblong-oval, only moderately convex, shining ; fusco-niger, faintly 

 aeneous, legs piceous, antennae and tarsi piceo-rufous. 



Head slightly uneven, broadly impiessed between the antennae, dis- 

 tinctly and irregularly punctured, the epistome more finely. Thorax almost 

 a third broader than long near the middle but appearirg more elorgate ; 

 its base rather wider than the apex, subtruncate, but with its quite rect- 

 angular angles projecting slightly backwards ; the sides obtusely subangulate 

 behind the middle, obliquely but not curvedly narrowed anteriorly, apex 

 deeply emarginate, wnth obtuse but unusually prominent angles ; disc 

 somewhat irregularly, moderately closely and finely punctured, marginal 

 channels broad and shallow, the margins distinct and reflexed, the basal 

 and apical less developed, discal groove obsolete. Scutellum subtriangular. 

 moderately large, nearly smooth. Elytra rather wider than thorax at the 

 base, more than twice its length, their sides nearly straight for half their 

 length, gradually attenuate posteriorly ; each with 8 moderately finely 

 punctured striae, which, however, become somewhat irregular towards tlie 

 sides and apices ; interstices nearly plane, finely and moderately closely 

 punctate, the 3rd broader than the others. 



The shape of the thorax is somewhat similar to that of a SyrpJietodes ; 

 there is. therefore, sufficient justification for its separation from P. appositvs 

 (3751), to which otherwise it is most nearly related. 



Length, 12 mm. ; breadth, 5 J mnu 



Mount Dick. A solitary individual found by Mr. T. Hall on the 26th 

 Januarv, 1914. 



