Coleoptera from New Zealand. 385 



antennas reddish, tarsi paler ; pubescence conspicuous, yel- 

 lowish. 



Head oviform, rather narrow, distantly punctured. Labrum 

 large, transverse, truncate in front. Eyes moderately large, 

 oval. Antenna? stout, reaching backwards beyond the base 

 of the thorax, the basal three joints nearly equally elongate ; 

 4 to 10 become shorter and broader, dull piceous, and densely 

 pubescent, eleventh large. Thorax quite as long as broad, 

 the base subtruncate in the middle, apex rounded ; the poste- 

 rior angles obtuse, but nearly rectangular ; the anterior 

 rounded and much depressed, so that the front appears much 

 narrowed ; at each side there is a slight sinuation behind the 

 middle ; the fine central longitudinal groove terminates in a 

 transverse fovea near the base ; the surface is distinctly but 

 not closely punctured. Elytra ample, quadrate ; the suture 

 is a little depressed near the base and slightly raised behind ; 

 they are moderately closely but not very coarsely punctured. 

 Hind body elongate, not quite the breadth of the elytra, finely 

 and remotely punctate. 



This may be located near G. vulcanica, Fauvel ; the head 

 of that species is broader behind the eyes, the thorax is ovi- 

 form and densely sculptured, the elytra appear slightly 

 asperate, and the dorsal segments of the abdomen are finely 

 granulate near the base. 



Length 1^-lf, breadth quite § line. 



Ngatira, near the railway to Rotorua. Five specimens, 

 taken out of fungi. 



Aleochara semifusca, sp. n. 



Elongate, moderately nitid ; pubescence flavescent, dense 

 slender and depressed ; head fuscous, thorax and elytra pale 

 rufo-fuscous, hind body seneo-castaneous, legs red, tarsi 

 yellowish. 



Head not broader than the front of the thorax, moderately 

 closely and rather finely punctured, the narrow inter-antennal 

 portion smooth and shining. Eyes longitudinally oval and 

 a little convex. Antenna? pubescent, about the length of the 

 head and thorax ; joints 4 to 10 each shorter and broader 

 than its predecessor, 8 to 10 strongly transverse ; the elon- 

 gate basal three and the terminal one are reddish, the others 

 fuscous. Thorax nearly one half broader than long, the sides 

 and base finely margined and curvate, posterior angles nearly 

 rectangular; its punctuation moderately fine, rather closer 

 than that of the head. Elytra about a third shorter than 

 broad ; apices very obtusely rounded individually ; there is a 



