Coleoptera from New Zealand. 387 
This may be known by the large, opaque, densely clothed, 
black club and the indistinct frontal constriction of the thorax. 
M. russulus most nearly resembles it. 
9. Length 13, breadth quite + line. 
Hunua Range, Maketu. One example. 
STILBOCARA, gen. nov. 
Body ovate-cylindric, subdepressed, nearly glabrous. os- 
trum parallel or only very slightly and gradually narrowed 
towards the base, rather shorter than the thorax, only mode- 
rately stout. Antenne medially inserted. Scape short and 
stout, thickened towards the extremity. uniculus longer, 
7-articulate, basal joint rather larger than those next to it, 
‘seventh distinctly larger than sixth. Club large, oblong- 
oval, nearly the length of the funiculus. yes rotundate, 
large, prominent, distant from thorax. Head large and 
globose below, above (immediately behind the eyes) abruptly 
broader, convex, and polished. Thorax longer than broad, 
much narrowed and constricted anteriorly. Scutellum dis- 
tinct, flat. lytra subparallel, base nearly quite truncate, 
apices not explanate. Legs moderately elongate. Memora 
slender near the base, clavate near the extremity. Tibie 
laterally compressed, outer extremity of the two hind pairs 
eurvedly prolonged as far as the second tarsal joint; the 
anterior with moderately developed hooks. Yars¢ narrow, 
their basal joint elongate, third slightly lobate, so that the 
minute fourth joint is visible, terminal elongate and slender. 
Claws moderate. 
Metasternum elongate, with an extremely slender linear 
impression behind. Abdomen broadly curved between the 
hind coxe, first segment larger than the second, its apical 
suture fine. 
The short scape, elongate club, and the large, globose, 
polished head, taken together, seem to differentiate this from 
those genera of the subfamily Cossonides in which the scape 
is abbreviated. The South-African Brachyscapus has a short 
triangular rostrum and rather approximate eyes. Steno- 
mimus, from Brazil, is a minute narrow insect. J/icromimus, 
a West-Indian genus, has very large, transverse, sunken 
eyes. In the New-Zealand list it may be placed near Phlwo- 
phagosoma, from which, however, it may be separated by a 
glance at the head and rostrum. 
Stilbocara nitida, sp. n. 
Shining, sparsely clothed with erect but minute greyish 
