390 COLEOPTERA. 
Antennae 8-articulate, 2nd joint as thick as the basal but not half its 
length, 4th as long as 3rd, its base attached to the apex of the 3rd, but being 
a little thicker it appears, but only just perceptibly, to project backwards ; 
club densely pubescent, with elongate leaflets. 
Distinguishable from E. aenealis (2806) and Sharp’s Sericospilus advena 
(1987) by its distinctly more anteriorly narrowed head, more rounded sides 
of thorax, truncate apices of elytra, by their more regular substriate sculp- 
ture and less uneven surface. It may be at once separated from 1987 by 
the structure of the 4th antennal joint. 
S$. Length, 10 mm.; breadth, 44 mm. 
Stewart Island. I am indebted to Mr. A. Philpott, of Invercargill, for 
a specimen found by him during January, 1914. 
3846. Odontria obsoleta sp. nov. Odontria White, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., 
p. 265. 
Subovate, only slightly convex, opaque; of a pale greyish-chestnut hue, 
the head and legs more or less light castaneous; the thorax, scutellum, and 
base of elytra thickly covered with very long decumbent hairs of about the 
same colour as the derm; remainder of wing-cases with more slender 
suberect pubescence; the outstanding lateral setae are numerous and 
somewhat ferruginous. 
Head very coarsely punctate, less closely behind ; clypeus with reflexed 
margins, subtruncate in front. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, 
widest near the middle, nearly straight behind, with obtuse angles, gradually 
and slightly narrowed towards the subacute anterior angles ; base bisinuate, 
apex widely but not deeply emarginate; its punctation very fine and 
distant. Elytra widest behind the posterior femora, with subtruncate 
apices ; their striae shallow and indistinct, the punctation fine and obsolete. 
Antennae rather short, their 3rd and 4th joints of about equal length, 
the latter the thicker, 5th very short. 
Underside indistinctly sculptured, abdomen fusco-testaceous ; sternum 
thickly clothed with elongate pubescence. 
In 1667 (O. sandageri) the pubescence is less slender but shorter. In 
2514, which is most like 1667, the clypeus is strongly rounded from one 
eye to the other. The present is recognizable by its pale colour and obsolete 
sculpture. 
2. Length, 14mm.; breadth, 73 mm. 
Scarcliff, west of Mount Algidus. My specimen is one of Mr. T. Hall’s 
captures on the 20th October, 1913. 
Group Lucanmpag. 
3847. Mitophyllus mandibularis sp. nov. Mitophyllus Parry, Man. N.Z. 
Coleopt., pp. 252 and 1112. 
Oblong, slightly convex, subopaque ; fusco-piceous, legs piceo-rufous, 
the tips of the palpi and the basal joints of antennae and tarsi more 
rufescent. 
Head rather narrower than front of thorax, obtusely prominent just 
before the slightly convex eyes ; it is closely and distinctly but not coarsely 
punctate. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, its sides gently rounded, 
a little more curvedly narrowed in front than behind, anterior angles not 
prominent, the base moderately bisinuate, with obtuse angles ; dise mode- 
