ANTHRIBIDAK. 659 



Antennae as long as liead and thorax, a little infuscate from the third 

 joint onwards, with a few slender outstanding fuscous setae ; first joint 

 slender at the base, broadly dilated inwardly towards its extremity, second 

 nearly similar but smaller ; joints 3-8 evidently longer than broad, slender 

 For half of their length, seventh and eighth slightly shorter and stouter ; 

 club well defined, its basal joints unsymnK^trical, articulated outside the 

 middle, the first slightly longer and more triangular than second, the 

 terminal subconical. 



Underside fuscous, with fine greyish pubescence. 



Most nearly allied to D. pallidus (2218), but the hind-body is less 

 rotundate and less vertical behind, the striae are deeper and their 

 punctures coarser, and quadrate ; the general coloration is darker, and th(! 

 elongate upright setae are conspicuous. 



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



Titahi Bay, Wellington. One, sent by Mr. A C. O'Connor on the 10th 

 August, 1916'. 



({roui) Crramhycidae. 

 Aemona Newman. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 570. 



4245. Aemona separata sp. nov. 



Elongate, subdepressed, subopaque ; light castaneo-rufous, elytra tes- 

 taceous, mandibles rufous with nigrescent inner edges ; head irregularly 

 covered with bright fulvous pubescence, that of the thorax of a paler yellow, 

 elytra with depressed greyish hairs. 



Thorax subquadratc, not longer than broad, apex truncate, base bisinu- 

 ate, its sides slightly rounded before the middle and somewhat sinuate 

 between that part and the base ; disc with indefinite sculpture, not at all 

 transversely rugose, impunctate. only very slightly and irregularly uneven, 

 but on each side in front there is an obtuse, subrotundate, slight elevation, 

 and a pair of more obsolete ones between these. Elytra five times the 

 length of thorax, almost double its breadth at the base, parallel, with 

 broadly rounded apices ; their whole surface is moderately closely punctate, 

 rather more coarsely before the middle than behind. 



Underside light castaneous, with greyish pubescence, impunctate, the 

 prosternum with some short feeble inequalities ; intermediate coxae mode- 

 rately widely separated, the intervening process with a sharp semicircular 

 notch behind. 



Antennae very slightly longer than the body, their fourth joint rather 

 shorter than contiguous ones. 



This distinct species may be identified by the coloration, and the sha]i(> 

 and sculpture of its thorax. 



Length, 18 mm.; breadth, 4^ mm. 



Maggie Terrace, near Lake Rotoiti, Nelspn : 23rd December. 1915. 

 One, captured by Mr. T. Hall. 



(Jrouj) Laatiidae. 

 Xylotoles Newman. Man. N.Z. Coleopt.. p. 592. 



4246. Xylotoles submicans sp. nov. 



Elongate, nitid, aeneo-fuscous, antennae more rufescent and irregularlv, 

 but not conspicuously, spotted with grey pubescence ; thinly clothed with 

 fine greyish hairs, each elytron, in addition thereto, has an oblique, inter- 

 2.-)— Bull. No. 1. 



