386 On new Coleoptera from New Zealand. 



notch near the sides, so that the hind angles are directed 

 backwards; their sculpture is like that of the thorax, but 

 slightly deeper. Hind body elongate, more distantly punc- 

 tured. 



No. 166 (Aleochara puber) is very much like this species. 



Length If, breadth \ line. 



Mount Pirongia. Three examples, on the ground amongst 

 decaying leaves. 



Encephalus latulus, sp. n. 



Broad, oblong-oval, shining, obscure fusco-rufous ; thorax 

 darker, abdomen glossy, with a brassy tinge, the apical seg- 

 ments nearly testaceous ; the four or five terminal joints of 

 the antennge are fuscous, the remainder are paler but not testa- 

 ceous ; tarsi testaceous. 



Head narrowed anteriorly, nearly smooth. Eyes mode- 

 rately large. Antennas elongate, joints 5 to 10 with dark 

 outstanding hairs ; the basal two joints nearly equally stout 

 and elongate, third about the same length as the second, but 

 much more slender ; fourth distinctly longer than broad, 

 dilated towards the extremity ; fifth rather thicker than the 

 preceding one, sixth to tenth gradually incrassate, ninth and 

 tenth transverse, eleventh longer. Thorax transverse, its 

 angles nearly rectangular ; the anterior are depressed, thus 

 causing the sides to appear more narrowed in front than is 

 really the case ; the base issubtruncate ; its surface is closely 

 but minutely and indistinctly punctured. Elytra about 

 thrice as broad as they are long, of the same width as the 

 base of the thorax; the sides are ridged towards the outer 

 extremity, so that the hind angles appear to project back- 

 wards ; the suture is smooth, the rest of their surface is 

 closely and finely but not distinctly punctured. Hind body 

 as broad as the elytra, curved ly narrowed from the fourth 

 segment backwards, indistinctly sculptured and pubescent ; 

 on the fourth and fifth segments there are two minute 

 tubercles near each side and two widely distant ones nearer 

 the middle close to the apical margins ; the third has two 

 near each side, but none on the middle. 



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Wairoa North. One from Mr. G. Campbell Munro. 



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