234 Capt. T. Broun on new 



XXIX. — Descriptions ofneiv Coleoptera from New Zealand. 

 By Captain Thos, Broun. 



[Continued from p. 203.] 



Group Elateridae. 



Lomemus puncti'coUi's, sp. n. 



Elongate, not parallel, slightly nitid ; smoky black, legs 

 yellow, basal three joints of antennas a little rufescent ; the 

 pubescence on the elytra ash-coloured and slender for the 

 most part, but near the shoulders and on the thorax it is 

 yellow and conspicuous. 



Head densely and distinctly punctured ; the forehead 

 rounded in front, its edge smooth, but not sharply defined. 

 Thorax longer than broad, slightly and gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly ; posterior angles not divergent ; its surface densely 

 and moderately coarsely punctured, with a feebly marked 

 longitudinal groove down the middle. Elytra moderately 

 narrowed posteriorly, apices slightly dehiscent; evidently 

 striate ; the striae not perceptibly punctured, they are more or 

 less obsolete near the base, but the sutural ones are deepened 

 behind ; interstices finely transversely rugose ; near the base 

 the sculpture is almost granular. 



Antennce serrate, reaching backwards to beyond the middle 

 thighs, with fine pubescence only; second and third joints 

 short, and conjointly about a third shorter than the fourth, 

 which is rather longer than the fifth ; joints 4 to 10 with the 

 outer angles a little prolonged. 



? . Subparallel, not narrow ; pubescence cinereous, with 

 scarcely any yellow ; thorax but little narrowed towards the 

 front ; antennas nearly filiform, the second and third joints as 

 long as the fourth, rufo-fuscous. 



Var. ( (J ). — Shoulders and thoracic angles fusco-testaceous. 



The densely and very obviously punctured thorax and obso- 



letely punctate elytral stria3 difierentiate this from L. JlavipeSj 



Sharp, whilst the even curvature of the forehead and larger 



size show that it cannot be the L. similis of the same author. 



^ . Length 2|, breadth | line. 



Ngatira, on the Rotorua railway. One pair. 



Zeaglophus, gen. nov. 

 Head rather small. Forehead curved in front, without 



