428 COLEOPTERA. 
The unusually narrow form, the absence of nodosities, rather elongate 
thorax, and the conspicuous posterior patches of bright-yellow pubescence 
are distinctive. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 5mm.; breadth, 13 mm. 
Gordon’s Knob, near Belgrove. Mr. T. Hall secured a pair of specimens 
from decaying leaves, at a height of about 2,000 ft., on the 15th November, 
1914. 
3905. Bantiades notatus sp. nov. 
Oblong, rather narrow, the hind-body broader than thorax, slightly 
convex, subopaque ; rostrum and antennae rufo-testaceous, legs fusco- 
testaceous, anterior pair uniformly paler; thorax and elytra fuscous, these 
latter with a straight, somewhat nitid, bare space between the posterior 
femora, and, just behind this, with a pale, sometimes rufescent, broad, 
triangular area covered with fine suberect grey setae; the rest of the surface 
is thinly clothed with suberect yellow setae, but on the front of thorax they 
are more concentrated. 
Rostrum stout, subparallel, almost as long as the thorax, without 
perceptible carinae. Thorax slightly longer than broad, a little contracted 
in front, base subtruncate; uneven, irregularly and moderately coarsely 
punctured, with a central carina extending from the front to the sub- 
quadrate basal depression, which is obtusely elevated at each side. Elytra 
almost obovate, distinctly incurved at the base so that the shoulders are 
slightly porrect and rather broader than the thorax, they are twice its 
length, their sides are only slightly curved as far as the hind thighs, but 
the declivity is evidently narrower and subvertical; their basal half is 
coarsely seriate-punctate, with about 5 punctures in each series, the 
declivity is punctate-striate, the scutellar region is broadly depressed. 
Smaller than B. cylindricus and differing in form, the thorax distinctly 
narrower than the hind-body, which is without the bright-yellow posterior 
tufts seen in that species. The antennae and legs are similar. Both 
species are narrower than usual. 
Length (rostrum inclusive), 4mm. ; breadth, 14 mm. 
Gordon’s Knob. Two examples from Mr. T. Hall. 
3906. Abantiades gratulus sp. nov. Abantiades Broun, Bull. 1, Part III, 
p- 216, N.Z. Inst., May, 1914. 
Opaque, slightly convex ; rufo-fuscous, sometimes paler; covered with 
flavescent, depressed, rather small, setiform squamae; antennae and tarsi 
somewhat rufo-testaceous. 
Rostrum moderately slender, as long as thorax, punctate, with a fine 
median carina, the outer ones indistinct, its apical portion rufescent. Thorax 
widest near the front, gradually narrowed behind, with a short apical con- 
traction; disc slightly uneven, with an indistinct stria along the middle, 
transversely depressed in front; its breadth nearly a fifth more than the 
length. Scutellum minute or obsolete. Elytra not twice the length of 
thorax, evidently broader than it is at the base, their sides curved and 
distinctly incrassate there, gradually narrowed and deflexed behind ; 
apparently seriate-punctate ; 3rd interstices with a prominent basal and a 
pair of elongate elevations, the central least distinct, the last ending at the 
top of the hind slope; the 5th simple near the base, also trinodose, the 
central elevation longest, the posterior terminating below the top of the 
