696 COLEOPTERA. 



Underside with obscure greyish vestiture. Fifth ventral segment plane, 

 truncate behind. 



Somewhat similar to B. pUcatns, with a thicker rostrum ; longer, 

 narrower, and differently formed thorax ; shorter and stouter antennae ; 

 its longer hind-body with less distinctly raised shoulders. 



Length (rostrum included), 2§ mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Rakaia Gorge ; 27th September, 1912. Another of the late Mr. T. 

 Hall's novelties, probably a male. 



4301. Bryocatus ovipennis sp. no v. 



Opaque, fuscous, unevenly clothed with greyish scale-like matter and 

 a few suberect setae, antennae and tarsi nigrescent. 



Rostrum stout, parallel, as long as thorax, with some fine grey setae 

 near its extremity. Thorax of about equal length and breadth, a Httle 

 wider before the middle than in front, moderately coarsely punctate, 

 slightly uneven, without distinct inequalities. Elytra 1| times the length 

 and breadth of thorax, slightly broader than it is at the base, much 

 narrowed and subvertical behind ; distinctly striate, third and fifth inter- 

 stices a little broader than the others, each of these and the suture 

 with three small elevations, the subapical ones the smallest, the larger 

 ones nearly form transverse rows between and behind the posterior femora. 

 Antennae moderately short, legs elongate. 



Underside apparently with granular sculpture ; fifth ventral segment 

 large, its subrotimdate fovea occupying half of its whole siirface. 



Its proper position is between B. jugosus (3609) and B. burrowsi 

 (3762) ; it is much loss robust than either, and differs a good deal in 

 details of sculpture. 



c?. Length (rostrum included), 1| mm. ; breadth, |- mm. 



Bell Rock, near Methven ; 5th September, 1912. A single male taken 

 from moss on the face of a steep rock by the late Mr. T. Hall. 



Group Haplonychidae. 

 Geochus Broun. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 445. 



4302. Geochus rufipictus sp. nov. 



Subpyriform, slightly convex, moderately shining ; piceous, but with 

 the front and middle of thorax and elevated portions of elytra castaneo- 

 rufous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; sparingly clothed with slender, 

 inconspicuous, short grey setae. 



Rostrum shorter than thorax, narrowed behind, grooved along the 

 front, indistinctly sculptured. Thorax rather broader than long, widest 

 at the base, gradually narrowed anteriorly, closely and moderately coarsely 

 punctured. Elytra of the same width as thorax at the base, a third 

 broader at the summit of the subvertical declivity which is much narrowed 

 towards the extremity ; each elytron has five series of relatively coarse 

 subquadrate punctures, second and third interstices somewhat elevated 

 throughout, the fourth with a small median spot, and a longer one on 

 the next also elevated ; the three outer interstices are distinctly nodiform 

 on the top of the posterior declivity, which is punctate-striate near the 

 suture but irregularly punctured near the side. 



