Coleoptera from New Zealand. 421 



notched in the middle, with coarse, erect, fuscous setas, and 

 with a pale frontal appendage. Clypeus pallid and membran- 

 ous. Eyes half the length of the side of the head. An- 

 tenna fuscous, joints 4 to 11 opaque and densely pubescent, 

 first shining, piceous, nearly double the length of the next 

 one, which is rather shorter than the third; this and the 

 second are pale castaneous. Thorax rather broader than long, 

 gradually narrowed anteriorly, front angles rounded ; its 

 punctuation like that of the head, but becoming even finer 

 and more distant behind ; there are two large punctures near 

 the apical margin, two before and two behind the middle, the 

 last pair widely distant, and a few others along the basal and 

 lateral margins ; there is a feeble discoidal stria along the 

 middle. Elytra quadrate, densely transversely sculptured, 

 with depressed greyish hairs. Hind body elongate, its sculp- 

 ture longitudinal, pubescence greyish ; terminal styles long, 

 rufescent. Scutellum large, punctate. The front tarsi with 

 the basal four joints dilated. 



The beautifully iridescent head and thorax and their sculp- 

 ture show that this is distinct from the other New Zealand 

 species. Its proper position is near No. 1844. 



$ . Length 4f , breadth 1 line. 



Waiorongamai, near Mount Te Aroha. One, November 

 1893. 



Quedius conspicuellus, sp. n. 



Glossy, black ; hind body violaceous, with more or less 

 conspicuous patches of yellow hairs ; basal joint of antenna? 

 piceous, its apex and all the second joint castaneous, 4 to 10 

 dull. 



Head broadly oval, wider than the thorax, with three large 

 punctures along the inner margin of the eye, two close to the 

 base ; a shallow transverse impression on the forehead can 

 hardly be said to consist of two confluent punctures ; imme- 

 diately behind this there is another feebly marked transverse 

 impression. Clypeus membranous, dark. Labrum deeply 

 emarginate in the middle. Eyes moderately prominent, 

 occupying half the side of the head. Antennas, long, reaching 

 the thoracic base, second joint shorter and thicker than the 

 third, tenth slightly longer than broad. Thorax a little 

 broader than long, with two large punctures before the middle 

 and a few marginal ones. Scutellum large, punctate. Elytra 

 not longer than broad, closely and finely sculptured, with 

 slender cinereous and yellowish hairs. Hind body finely 

 sculptured, apical styles castaneous. Tarsi variegated pitchy 

 red, the anterior only moderately expanded. 



