636 COLEOPTERA. 



seventh lartier, subquadrate ; club short, ovate, with small apical articula- 

 tions. 



Underside fuscous, abdomen more or less rufescent, with numerous 

 depressed yellowish setae, moderately coarsely but not closely punctured. 

 Metasternum and abdomen on almost the same plane throughout, the 

 segments like those of P. conspicuus. 



This comes near the northern P. lonqulus (3128), but the legs are less 

 elongate, the elytra are not deeply bisinuate at the base and are less 

 vertical behind, &c. In both species the eyes are nearly flat, just free from 

 the thoracic apex, and rather more approximated than in the type of the 

 genus, 759. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 5 mm. ; breadth, nearly 2 mm. 



Mount Owen. One, found by Mr. T. Hall on the 27th December, 1914. 



Bradypatae Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 1206. 



4213. Bradypatae subnodifer sp. nov. 



Subopaque, fuscous, the rostrum, antennae, tarsi, thoracic disc, and 

 indistinct olytral nodosities rufescent ; irregularly clothed, almost spotted, 

 with yellow, decumbent, and rather longer suberect setae. 



Rostrum arched, equalling the thorax in length, finely carinate along 

 the middle, slightly expanded and finely sculptured in front, biseriate- 

 punctate behind. Head small, half the width of thorax above, globose 

 underneath. Thorax of the same length and breadth, abruptly contracted 

 in front, apex emarginate, gradually narrowed behind, base truncate ; 

 coarsely and closely punctured, more finely in front ; the coarser setae 

 irregularly concentrated in front and along the sides and forming three 

 crests across the middle, the centre of the base a little depressed. Elytra 

 oviform, almost double the length of thorax, fully a third broader at the 

 middle, hardly any broader than it is at the base, narrowed and subvertical 

 behind ; scutellar depressed and smooth, with raised setigerous lateral 

 borders ; they are rather indefinitely and irregularly striate-punctate, 

 more distinctly striate behind ; the setae form several very small tufts 

 along the middle and six across the summit of the posterior declivity ; near 

 the outer side of each elytron there are about six reddish, rather small, 

 setigerous nodules. 



Legs setose, tibiae slightly curvate externally, briefly mucronate. 



Scape implanted before the middle, reaching the back of the eye, flexuous, 

 subclavate at apex, without erect setae ; second joint of funiculus quite 

 as long as the basal, joints 3-6 short and subequal, seventh distinctly longer 

 and broader ; club ovate, obsoletely axticulated. 



Underside fuscous, with depressed flavescent setae. Prosternum deeply 

 emarginate, the prominent contiguous coxae situated nearer the base than 

 in my reversed specimen of B. capitalis (1512), and the intermediate coxae 

 are more widely separated. Second ventral segment rather longer than 

 the basal, with a few rather fine irregular punctures, its frontal suture 

 quite definite and angulate in the middle, the basal not depressed along 

 the middle, not rugose, and not as coarsely punctured as that of 1512 ; 

 the fifth is nearly double the length of third and fourth together, broadly 

 impressed behind and thickly hairy. The head above is not distinctly 

 constricted behind the flat eyes, the elytra are without distinct granules, 

 and their interstices are not subcarinate as in 1512. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 4| mm. ; breadth ^ 1§ mm. 



Kiwi Bush, near Glenhope, Nelson ; 4th May, 1915. Found by Mr. T. 

 Hall. 



