578 COLEOPTERA. 



The specimens in their natural condition are dull fuscous, but when 

 freed from extraneous substances present the appearance described above. 

 They are only about half the bulk of A. foveiger (3461). 



Length (rostrum exclusive), IJ-lJ mm. ; breadtli, f mm. 



Pakuratahi, near Wellington. Taken from leaf-mould by Mr. H. W. 

 Simmonds on the 2nd January, 1915. 



Zeacalles Broun. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6. vol. 12, p. 379. 

 4130. Zeacalles aeratus sp. nov. 



Compact, very convex, subpyriform, slightly nitid ; fusco-rufous, elytra 

 and legs paler, rostrum rufous, antennae nifo-testaceous ; covered mostly 

 with small, depressed, rather bright brassy squamae, but grey ones form a 

 streak along each side of the thorax and elytra as far as the hind thigh, 

 where it bends inwardly ; there is an elongate blackish basal spot inside 

 each shoulder, and three irregular spots near the extremity. 



Eostrum scarcely at all arched above, almost as long as the thorax, 

 with a few scales at its base, finely subseriate-punctate towards the front. 

 Thorax as long as broad, truncate at the base, gradually narrov/ed 

 anteriorly, distinctly and moderately closely punctured. Scutellum absent. 

 Elytra of the same width as thorax at the base, closely applied thereto, 

 quite twice its length, on an abruptly higher plane, widest near the middle, 

 narrowed and vertical behind ; sutural striae narrow, second somewhat 

 incurved behind the middle ; the interval between these striae evidently 

 swollen before the middle, and terminating on top of the posterior declivity 

 as a large horizontal nodosity ; the other striae are slender and indefinite. 



Legs with numerous pale squamiform setae ; femora long, stout and 

 unarmed, tibiae nearly straight, uncinate ; basal joints of tarsi small, the 

 penultimate broadly dilated, excavate above, densely setose and apparently 

 entire underneath. 



Underside obscurely rufescent, with some pale coarse squamae. Pectoral 

 canal profound, its sharply elevated hind borders extending as far as the 

 back part of the intermediate coxae. Basal ventral segment largest, 

 truncate behind, the second short, yet slightly longer than third or fourth 

 and on the same level as they are. 



The grey lateral streaks, nigrescent marks, and elytral nodosities resemble 

 those of the North Island Z. hinodosus (3139), with the exception of the 

 dark posterior spots, but the elytral striae of that species are moderately 

 broad and deep, and the second are not incurved behind. The bright 

 brassy scales of Z. aeratus distinguish it from all its allies. 

 Length (rostrum exclusive), 2^ mm. ; breadth, 1^ mm. 

 Woodhen Bend, near Glenliope ; 20th June, 1915. Taken from leaf- 

 mould by Mr. T. Hall. Two examples, one of them damaged and now 

 mounted on its back. 



4131. Zeacalles coarctalis sp. nov. 



Elongate, rather narrow, the elytra, at or before the middle, very little 

 broader than the thorax, very convex, slightly nitid, not densely clothed ; 

 light infuscate red, rostrum rufous, antennae and tarsi rufo-testaceous ; 

 the depressed flavescent squamae on the basal half of elytra much smaller 

 than those on the thorax ; rather larger grey scales form an indefinite 

 lateral streak from the front of thorax to the commencement of the 



