428 COLEOPTKRA. 



The unusually narrow form, the absence of nodosities, rather elongate 

 thorax, and the conspicuous posterior patches of bright-yellow pubescence 

 are distinctive. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5 mm.; breadth, l|mm. 



Gordon's Knob, near Belgrove. Mr. T. Hall secured a pair of specimens 

 from decaying leave-, at a height of about 2,000 ft., on the 15th November, 

 1911. 



3905. Bantiades notatus sp. nov. 



Oblong, rathe]- narrow, the hind-body broader than thorax, slightly 

 convex, subopaque ; rostrum and antennae rufo-testaceous, legs fusco- 

 testaceous, anterior pair uniformly paler ; thorax and elytra fuscous, these 

 latter with a straight, somewhat nitid, bare space between the posterior 

 femora, and, just behind this, with a pale, sometimes rufescent, broad, 

 triangular area covered with fine suberect grey setae ; the rest of the surface 

 is thinly clothed with suberect yellow setae, but on the front of thorax they 

 are more concentrated. 



Rostrum stout, subparallel, almost as long as the thorax, without 

 perceptible carinae. Thorax slightly longer than broad, a little contracted 

 in, front, base subtruncate ; uneven, irregularly and moderately coarsely 

 punctured, with a central carina extending from the front to the sub- 

 quadrate basal depression, which is obtusely elevated at each side. Elytra 

 almost obovate, distinctly incurved at the base so that the shoulders are 

 slightl)' porrect and rather broader than the thorax, they are twice its 

 length, their sides are only slightly curved as far as the hind thighs, but 

 the declivity is evidently narrower and subvertical ; their basal half is 

 coarsely seriate-punctate, with about 5 punctures in each series, the 

 declivity is punctate-striate, the scutellar region is broadly depressed. 



Smaller than B. cylindricKs and differing in form, the thorax distinctly 

 narrower than the hind-body, which is without the bright-yellow posterior 

 tufts seen in that species. The antennae and legs are similar. Both 

 species are narrower than usual. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 4 mni. ; breadth, IJ mm. 



Gordon's Knob. Two examples from Mr. T. Hall. 



3906. Abantiades gratulus sp. nov. Abantiades Broun, Bull. 1, Part III, 



p. 216, N.Z. Inst., May, 1914. 



Opaque, slightly convex ; rufo-fnscous, sometimes paler ; covered with 

 flavescent, depressed, rather small, setiform squamae ; antennae and tarsi 

 somewhat rufo-testaceous. 



Rostrum moderately slender, as long as thorax, punctate, with a fine 

 median carina, the outer ones indistinct, its apical portion rufescent. Thorax 

 widest near the front, gradually narrowed behind, with a short apical con- 

 traction ; disc slightly uneven, with an indistinct stria along the middle, 

 transversely depressed in front ; its breadth nearly a fifth more than the 

 length. Scutellum minute or obsolete. Elytra not twice the length of 

 thorax, evidently broader than it is at the base, their sides curved and 

 distinctly incrassate there, gradually narrowed and deflexed behind ; 

 apparently seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices with a promiiieiit basal and a 

 pair of elongate elevations, the central least distinct, the last ending at the 

 top of the hind slope ; the 5th simple near the base, also trinodose, the 

 central elevation longest, the posterior terminating below the top of the 



