Coleoptera from New Zealand. 377 
Underside piceous, shining, with a few rather slender 
yellowish sete. Pectoral canal deep, extending to the front 
margin of the middle coxa, the mesosternum curved there 
but not much raised; it is ciliate behind. Metasternum very 
short, almost linear between the hind and middle cox, the 
middle depressed, each side with. a patch of pallid sponge- 
like squame extending inwardly as a sort of streak. Abdo- 
men large, densely and minutely sculptured, the first segment 
in the middle nearly twice the length of the second, depressed 
along the middle, with some coarse punctures, the frontal 
suture not well defined ; third and fourth very short, below 
the level of the basal ones; fifth red, rather large, finely 
punctured. Z%bie produced and acuminate at the inner 
extremity. 
In appearance this somewhat resembles A. comptus, which, 
however, is less convex and much narrower; the tibize have 
slender but distinct spurs, and the tarsal and sternal structure 
differs, so that the two are not really congeneric. It may be 
identified by the bare, red, transversely sculptured disk of the 
thorax. 
Length (rostr. excl.) 3, breadth 4 line. 
Mount Pirongia. About half a dozen individuals were 
found on the ground in December 1892. 
Acalles porcatus, sp. ni. 
Piceous, slightly shining, nearly bald, having only a few 
erect, rather slender, yellowish sete; rostrum red; antenne 
testaceous, club black. 
Rostrum finely sculptured. Scape short and rather thick, 
medially inserted. Fuwniculus longer than the scape, second 
joint short, much more slender than the thick basal one; 
club large, ovate. Thorax about as broad as it is long, a 
good deal narrowed anteriorly, broadly constricted there, 
coarsely punctate. Scwtellum invisible. Hlytra short and 
broad, much rounded ; the striz broad and deep, with coarse 
punctures, sometimes appearing iregular or interrupted ; 
interstices narrow and convex, not always equally elevated. 
Underside like that of A. farinosus, except that the middle 
of the metasternum is more broadly depressed. 
In form like the preceding species, but with still more 
scanty clothing, and the sculpture much coarser and irregular. 
‘The second ventral segment is nearly vertical behind and on 
a higher plane than the following two, which are extremely 
short. The femora are grooved below. 
Length (vostr. excl.) 3, breadth 3 line. 
Mount Pirongia. Four examples, December 1892. 
