ANTHRIBIDAE. 587 



elytra, forming rounded i)o,sterior angles and prolonged towards the middle 

 of each side , it is finely and irregularly punctured. Scutellum small and 

 indistinct, covered with white setae. Elytra rather broader than thorax 

 at the base, nearly twice its length, gently narrowed backwards, apices 

 subtruncate ; finely, irregularly, substriate-punctate. Tarsi moderately 

 broad, their second joint emarginate, lobes of the third narrow. 



Antennae shorter than the rostrum and thorax, immaculate ; exposed 

 portion of the basal joint shorter than the elongate-oval second, joints 

 3-8 elongate, gradually and slightly shortened and thickened ; club 

 moderately broad, its first joint longest, elongate-triangular. 



This is congeneric with Sharp's A. hrouni (964), but it is considerabh' 

 larger and differently clothed and marked. It is smaller than A. rudis 

 (965), but is without elytral nodosities. It should be placed between these 

 species. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5 mm. ; breadth, If mm, 



Glenhope, near Nelson ; 16th May, 1915. One, found by Mr. T. Hall, 

 in whose honour it has been named. 



Group Lamiidae. 

 Somatidia Thomson. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 600. 

 4146. Somatidia maculata sp. nov. 



Convex, moderately elongate and nitid, without crests ; usually tes- 

 taceous, elytra with a large fuscous basal mark not reaching the sides, an 

 angular one near each hind thigh not extending to the suture, and a few 

 small but much paler spots behind ; thorax sometimes light castaneous 

 joints 3-11 of the antennae with infuscate tips ; pubescence yellowish, 

 irregularly distributed, slender and decumbent, without outstanding 

 setae. 



Head sparingly punctate, slightly concave between the antennal tubercles. 

 Thorax o\'iform, slightly broader than long, widest near the middle, gently 

 narrowed behind ; disc only slightly convex, distinctly and irregularly but 

 nowhere closely punctate. Scutellum short, triangular. Elytra oviform, 

 quite double the length of thorax, a third broader in the middle, of the 

 same Avidth as it is at the base, rather more convex ; their punctation on 

 the basal half like that of the thorax but subseriate near the suture, rather 

 finer elsewhere, the dark spots nearly nude. Femora arched above, slender 

 near the base ; tibiae reddish near the knees and with a darker subapical 

 spot. 



Antennae as long as the body, rather shorter in the female ; their third 

 joint more infuscate than the others and extending beyond the base of the 

 thorax, fourth nearly a third longer than the next. 



Male. — Fifth ventral segment rounded and finely margined behind, 

 sixth short and broad. 



Fern. — Thorax shorter, eh'tra broader. 



S. testacea (2998), the nearest species, is much larger, rather darker now, 

 differently marked, subopaque, and the elj'tra are minutely quadricristate. 



cJ. Length, 3|-4 mm. ; breadth, If-lf mm. 



Glenhope, 10th December, 1914 ; Burnt Hill, 25th April, 1915 ; and 

 Howard Goldfield, 10th May, 1915. Eight examples, found amongst leaf- 

 mould by Mr. T. Hall, some slighlly darker or less definitely maculate than 

 the typical pair. 



