386 COLEOPTERA. 
Underside usually darker, more finely clothed; abdomen indistinctly 
punctate, basal segment scarcely longer than the next, 3rd and 4th each 
slightly shorter than 5th, 6th narrower but as long, medially emarginate, 
7th concave along the middle. 
Fem.—tTibiae straight along the inner side, slightly arched externally, 
oblique near the extremity. Abdomen with 6 segments, the basal convex 
but not carinate along the middle, 5th longer than its predecessor, 6th short 
and broad. 
$. Length, 24mm.; breadth, 14mm. 
Mount Hutt, Canterbury, 25th March, 1912; Bell Rock and Rose Hill 
the following year. Six males and two females altogether. Another of 
Mr. T. Hall’s novelties. 
Zeagyrtes gen. nov. 
Maxillary palpi short, subcylindric, arched externally, basal joint longer 
than 2nd, narrowed towards the base, 3rd suboblong, a little longer but 
not broader than its predecessor, the terminal nearly as long as the 3rd, 
tapering towards the extremity. Mesosternal carina not vertical in front. 
Tarsi pentamerous, their basal joints unexpanded. Abdomen of the male 
with 7 segments, the 6th medially emarginate. 
Intermediate between Choleva and Mesocolon. 
3839. Zeagyrtes vitticollis sp. nov. 
Oblong-oval, only moderately convex, nitid; head, thorax, and basal 
joint of antennae fusco-testaceous, the elytra more or less so near the apex, 
the thorax with a broad dark streak along the middle; elytra and remain- 
ing joints of antennae fusco-piceous or nigrescent, the former sometimes 
paler near the base; legs more or less infuscate ; pubescence elongate and 
suberect, principally dark, but with some grey hairs near the base, on the 
middle, and across the top of the hind slope; these, however, do not form 
fasciae. 
Head much narrowed in front of the large, prominent, obliquely oval 
eyes, distantly punctate. Thorax about a third broader than long, with 
fine lateral margins, more curvedly narrowed anteriorly than near the base, 
which is slightly rounded in the middle, with subrectangular angles, the 
apex truncate; disc moderately coarsely and irregularly punctured. Scu- 
tellum subtriangular. Elytra of the same width as thorax at the base, 
thrice its length, with singly rounded apices, so that the pygidium is some- 
times exposed; sutural striae distinct, their sculpture consists apparently 
of fine transverse serial punctures and lines. 
Antennae longer than head and thorax, rather slender, bearing nume- 
rous outstanding dark setae; basal joint rather longer than the elongate 
2nd, 3rd a little shorter than 4th, 5th and 6th about equally slender ; 
remaining joints, except the rather shorter and more slender 8th, longer 
and rather thicker than the 6th. 
Tibiae slender, elongate, and finely setose, the posterior straight, the 
others slightly arched, the hind pairs finely bispinose at the extremity. 
Underside shining, dark fuscous, with slender, grey pubescence. An 
terior coxae prominent and contiguous. 
Length, 24 mm.; breadth, 1} mm. 
Waitakerei Reservoir, near Auckland. Hight specimens found amongst 
leaf-mould on the 26th October, 1914, by Mr. A. E. Brookes, of Mount 
Albert. 
