Coleoptera from New Zealand. 87 



The clothing is remarkable ; the hairs are arranged in lines, 

 with single ones proceeding obliquely from the central ones. 

 Nos. 283, 284, 285, and 286 must be placed in this genus. 

 S. Length ^, breadth quite ^ line. 

 Hunua Range, Drury. One example. 



Choleva marginalise sp. n. 



Oval, not narrow, moderately convex, slightly nitid ; 

 fuscous, the legs, the apical and two or tliree basal joints of 

 the antenna nearly chestnut-red, the front and middle tarsi 

 paler ; pubescence dense, very slender, cinereous ; on the 

 elytra there are some short erect setse. 



Thorax transverse, much curvedly narrowed anteriorly ; 

 base and apex subtruncate ; the posterior angles just per- 

 ceptibly overlapping the shoulders, its surface very finely 

 sculptured. Scutellum distinct, broadly triangular. Elytra 

 gradually attenuated posteriorly, apices subtruncate, exposing 

 the pygidium ; with well-marked sutural striaj and close 

 transversely strigose sculpture ; the lateral margins are well 

 developed from the shoulders to the hind thighs. Antennce 

 stout, pubescent, the basal three joints equally elongate; 

 fourth and fifth a little shorter and rather stouter ; sixth 

 rather longer than broad, not quite so broad as the seventh ; 

 eighth transverse, not. very small, not much narrower than 

 the contiguous ones ; tenth a little smaller than the preceding- 

 one. 



(J. Legs stout, femora thick ; the front tibim with a distinct 

 spine at the inner extremity and a smaller one at the outside ; 

 the intermediate strongly curvate, with a distinct spine at the 

 inner apex, a smaller one outside, and two or three finer ones 

 higher up ; the posterior with elongate terminal spines, and 

 eight or ten much finer ones along the outer edge. Anterior 

 tarsi with the basal three joints strongly dilated. 



Underside shining, chestnut-brown, finely clothed, the 

 middle of the metasternuni obtusely raised. 



The nearest species are C. lugubris, Sharp, and G. fulvi- 

 tarsis. From the former it differs by the shorter and broader 

 form and by the presence of slender spines on the hind tibia; 

 from the latter it may be distinguished by the more slender 

 and less evidently pubescent middle tibia, shorter scutellum, 

 less opaque surface, and by the more expanded elytral 

 margins. 



(J. Length If, breadth f line. 



Mount Te Arolia, two examples ; Papakura, one. Found 

 on the ground amongst fallen leaves. 



