THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
{SIXTH SERIES. ] 
No. 69. SEPTEMBER 1893. 
XXVIII.—Descriptions of new Coleoptera from New 
Zealand. By Captain THos. Broun. 
THE present contribution contains descriptions of eleven new 
genera and seventy-four new species. ‘The numbers, such as 
‘No. 1469” for example, refer to my ‘ Manual of New Zealand 
Coleoptera.’ 
Group Anchomenide. 
Dichrochile anthracina, sp. n. 
Suboblong, very slightly convex, shining, black; antenne 
and palpi piceous, the tips of the latter paler; tarsi rufo- 
piceous, the anterior with dark spots. 
Head yather more than half the width of the thorax, nar- 
rowed behind, with exceedingly minute dense sculpture, with 
a setigerous puncture near each eye. Labrum widely and 
deeply emarginate, the left side more prominent than the 
right. Mandzbles stout, the left broader at the base and more 
incurved at the apex than the other. yes moderate. An- 
tenn slender, reaching backwards beyond the middle thighs, 
basal three joints glabrous, third about one third longer than 
second, but shorter than fourth. Palpi elongate, the terminal 
joints of the labial not thicker than those of the maxillary. 
Thorax about one third broader than long, its sides rounded, 
rather more narrowed behind than in front; apex medially 
truncate, the sides directed forwards, so that the anterior 
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