196 Capt. T. Broun on new 



Group Bothrideridas. 



Bothrideres ohsolefus, sp. n. 



Elongate, glabrous, slightly nitid ; black, 

 tarsi pitchy red. 



Head rather finely punctured. Eyes large and prominent. 

 Antennce puhesceut ', first joint thick and subglobose; second 

 smaller, third longer than broad ; 4 to 8 short, nearly equal 

 to one another; ninth larger than the preceding one, tenth 

 nearly thrice the width of the ninth, eleventh rounded 

 apically. Thorax of about equal length and breadth, dis- 

 tinctly narrowed behind the middle ; near the centre there is 

 a large impression ; this has a small lanceolate mark in the 

 middle ; there are three small basal impressions, the one in 

 front of the scutellum is linear ; the disk is finely punctured, 

 quite obsoletely in the middle ; the punctuation, however, 

 becomes more distinct towards the sides. Elytra elongate, 

 broader than the thorax, narrowed posteriorly, the shoulders 

 with well-defined margins ; their stride are sharply marked, 

 but only obsoletely punctured ; interstices rather broad and 

 flat, finely and indistinctly punctate, the third, fourth, and 

 fifth and the suture are more or less evidently cariniform 

 behind. Legs elongate and slender. 



Underside with fine scanty greyish pubescence. Pro- 

 sternum moderately coarsely punctured, its flanks nearly 

 smooth. Metasternum more closely sculptured. The abdo- 

 men finely and sparingly punctured. 



Two other species occur in New Zealand (Nos. 367 and 

 1951) ; B. ohsoletus may be easily distinguished by the very 

 much finer sculpture. 



Length 2^, breadth | line. 



West Plains, Invercargill. Mr. A. Philpott forwarded 

 two examples for examination on the 29th March, 1894. 



Group LathridiidsB. 

 Lathridius sulcifrons, sp. n. 



Suhollong, moderately convex; fusco-piceous ; femora 

 reddish, the tibiffi and antennse nearly testaceous, tarsi 

 yellowish ; head and thorax opaque, elytra slightly nitid. 



Head broad, much narrowed anteriorly, its punctuation 

 close, rather coarse, but not deep ; .with a central longitudinal 

 groove. AntenncB feebly pubescent, their first joint large, 

 red, second oviform ; joints 3 to 8 slender, the third rather 

 shorter than the fourth j club elongate, its middle joint 



