Coleoptera from New Zealand. 383 
Mount Pirongia. Two, found on the ground, December 
1892. 
Metacalles rugicollis, sp. n. 
Piceous, antenne and tarsi red, club pitchy; sparsely 
clothed with long, erect, fuscous sete; some yellow scales 
are placed near the base of the rostrum and on the thorax ; 
on each elytron near the middle of the side there are some 
pale slender scales, and there are a few fine ash-coloured sete 
behind. 
Rostrum pitchy red, smooth along the middle, nearly as 
long as the thorax. Antenne implanted behind the middle; 
scape short, rather stout; funiculus elongate, second joint 
more slender than, but nearly as long as, the first; club 
opaque, large, ovate. Thorax rather longer than broad, 
widest just behind the middle, the frontal constriction shallow, 
the apex reddish ; the surface with large closely placed punc- 
tures, these are transversely confluent for the most part, with 
narrow intervals, so that the disk seems rugose. Llytra 
cordate, much rounded at the sides; their striew are rather 
broad and deep, but are only indistinctly punctured. Tars¢ 
narrow, their third joint scooped out above, but not distinctly 
lobate. 
When compared with M. aspersus it will be seen that the 
thorax is longer and less contracted anteriorly ; it is diffe- 
rently sculptured and is without variegate squamosity. In 
quite unrubbed specimens I think there will be two small 
black crests on the third and fifth elytral interstices. 
Length (rostr. excl.) ?, breadth quite 2 line. 
Mount Pirongia. One, Dec. 1892, on the ground. 
Kctopsis simplex, sp. n. 
Cylindric, nearly flat above, opaque, black; tarsi and 
antenne dark red ; covered with very small, depressed, chiefly 
ferruginous scales; the posterior declivity is clothed with 
sordid grey squame, there is a speck of similar colour near 
the middle of each elytron, and an elongate mark in front of 
the scutellum. 
Rostrum longer than the thorax, the frontal half nude and 
finely punctate. Scape nearly glabrous, rather slender, a 
little flexuous and incrassate apically. uniculus sparsely 
pubescent, second joint distinctly longer than the first. Club 
elongate, one third shorter than the funiculus. Thorax one 
fifth broader than long, abruptly contracted in front; it is 
flat above and finely aud distantly punctured. /ytra slightly 
