Coleoptera from New Zealand. 171 
Underside chestnut-red, pubescent. Head longitudinally 
ridged in the middle. Mesosternum plane in the middle, this 
part with fine carmate borders. Metasternum flat or impressed 
in the middle; just in front of each hind coxa there seems to 
be a small tubercle, there is another behind, both are rather 
indistinct. 
Antenne about as long as the head and thorax; second 
joint quite as large as the exposed part of the first; fourth 
just longer than broad, slightly shorter than the third or 
fifth ; sixth and seventh hardly longer than broad; eighth a 
little shorter than the preceding one; joints 8 to 8 are of 
nearly equal thickness throughout; ninth distinctly broader 
than eighth, but only a little more than half the bulk of the 
tenth ; eleventh largest, conical, somewhat acuminate. 
Maxillary palpi stout, two thirds the length of antenne, 
first joint short, second gradually thickened, third short and 
thick, fourth almost as long as second, broadest near the base, 
gradually narrowed, with a short apical seta. Front coxe 
cylindric, contiguous ; the middle pair almost contiguous; the , 
posterior not very widely separated. The abdomen apparently 
consists of six segments, but the suture between the fifth and 
sixth is very fine; the basal segment is nearly the length of 
the other five, it is densely fringed at the base ; the hind thighs 
conceal the pubescence, but when these are displaced an 
indistinct suture can be seen between what I term the basal 
segment and the metasternum. 
The male has a broader head and more prominent eyes 
than the female, so far as I can judge at present. 
Length ?, breadth quite + line. 
Hunua Range. Five examples. 
Bryaxis sternalis, sp. n. 
Sanguineous, legs and antennx paler red, tarsi and palpi 
yellowish ; shining, with very few short, fine, pale hairs. 
Head broad, nearly flat between the antenna, broadly im- 
pressed near the front, with two small interocular foves. 
Thorax widest just before the middle, where it is rounded; 
near the base there is a transverse depression which does not 
reach the middle. /ytra rather longer than broad, narrowed 
towards the base; their sutural striz well-marked, the intra- 
humeral impressions more or less distinet. Hind body short, 
much deflexed, more evidently pubescent than the elytra. 
Legs moderately stout; front and middle tibiz somewhat 
dilated along the inside, the former with distinct yellow ciliz 
on the inner face. 
