CoJeojitera from New ZeaJand. 417 



Group ScolytidsB. 

 Acrantus opacus, sp. n. 



C'T/Jivdric, subopaque, fuscous ; head nigrescent ; the legs, 

 cfxje, and antennas pale ferruginous, club dark; densely 

 clothed, the thorax with small, round, depressed brown and 

 brassy scales and short erect slender setse ; on the elytra the 

 squamosity is similarly variegated but less decumbent and the 

 erect setse are rather ]ialer and more conspicuous. 



Head minutely sculptured, with some yellow hairs in front. 

 Thorax hardly longer than broad, narrowed and slightly con- 

 stricted in front, with some yellow pubescence at the middle 

 of the base; it is closely punctate. Elytra individually 

 rounded and minutely crenulate at the base ; striate, inter- 

 stices plane ; the external strige are distinctly punctured. Legs 

 finely pubescent ; tibice expanded towards the extremity, with 

 three or four denticles along each of them. Tarsi slender, 

 the terminal joint as long as the basal three ; claws well 

 developed. 



Antennoi moderately elongate ; scape elongate, very gradu- 

 ally incrassate ; funiculus short, much more slender than the 

 scape, its first joint stout, longer than broad, the following 

 five transverse and provided with very long outstanding 

 slender hairs ; club elongate, opaque, indistinctly four- 

 jointed ; it is rather narrow, and equals the funiculus in 

 "length. 



Underside with fine pale pubescence ; the mesosternum 

 with minute squamge. Metasternum longitudinally grooved 

 along the middle. First ventral segment large, 2 to 4 short, 

 fifth with a broad basal suture. 



A considerable amount of individual variation occurs. In 

 one the legs are fuscous, in others the clothing of the thorax 

 is of a dark uniform colour and consists of hairs, and the 

 antennae are quite short, with an ovate club ; in these 

 examples (probably females) the remarkable villosity of the 

 antennae seems wanting. 



Length 1|, breadth quite | line. 



Mount Te Aroha. Discovered by Mr. J. H. Lewis. 



Group AnthribidsB. 



Antlirihus jlavipilus, sp. n. 



Suhcylindric ; the dark ground-colour concealed by the 

 clothing ; tliis is hair-like, depressed, and greyish yellow on 

 the thorax, but brighter on the elytra; these latter are varie- 

 gated with grey patches, as in A. vates. 



