464 COLEOPTERA. 
Like A. picticornis, but with the thorax widely emarginate in front so 
that its angles seem slightly prominent, the sides without any sinuosity ; 
elytra more definitely suleate, their apices distinctly rounded separately. 
The hind-body of A. subsulcata is less narrowed posteriorly so that the 
general contour is less oval, and the elytral punctation is rather more 
distinct and regular. 
Its proper position is between these species. 
Length, 44 mm.; breadth, 24 mm. 
Ben Lomond. Another of Mr. Hall’s novelties. Unique. 
3960. Allocharis fuscipes sp. nov. 
Convex, oval, shining, aeneo-niger; sides of elytra, the legs, and 
antennae light rufo-fuscous, joints 3-11 of these last, and the palpi, darker 
at the extremity. 
Thorax a third broader than long, subtruncate in front, its sides nearly 
straight, a little curvedly narrowed in front; finely yet distinctly and 
somewhat irregularly punctured, less distinctly near the sides. Scutellum 
smooth, subcordate. Elytra almost thrice the length of thorax, a little 
wider at the base, gradually narrowed behind the middle, with singly rounded 
apices; they are rather finely, on some parts indistinctly, seriate-punctate, 
obsoletely near the extremity ; interstitial punctation indistinct. 
Much smaller, more oval, and rather more convex than A. praestans, 
uniformly darker, the legs and antennae especially, the surface evidently 
bronzed, with finer sculpture. 
Length, 44. mm.; breadth, 24 mm. 
Moa Basin, Canterbury. Another species represented by a. solitary 
individual, captured by Mr. Hall on the 20th October, 1913. 
3961. Allocharis robusta sp. nov. 
Oblong-oval, only moderately convex, nitid ; aeneo-fuscous; the front 
margins of thorax, its sides broadly, the base and sides of elytra, the 
antennae, palpi, and legs, more or less fusco-testaceous ; the elytral suture 
rufescent. 
Head almost as broad as thorax, uneven, broadly impressed along 
the middle, irregularly and finely punctured. Thorax short, nearly 
twice as broad as long; its sides shghtly curvedly narrowed in front, 
straight behind, posterior angles subrectangular; the apex widely but 
feebly sinuate towards each of the obtuse angles, the margin fine yet 
definite in the middle, where there is a slight sinyosity in one example, 
in the other feebly rounded there; distinctly but finely punctate on the 
disc, the sides finely rugose. Seutellum smooth. Elytra nearly thrice the 
length of thorax, very little broader than it is at the base; they are rela- 
tively rather finely but not quite regularly seriately punctured, interstices 
minutely and indistinctly punctate; there is a distinct impression inside 
each shoulder. 
Antennae longer than the head and thorax, joints 5-10 elongate and 
filiform. 
Prosternum bisuleate between the coxae, truncate behind. Metasternum 
finely transversely rugose, grooved along the middle. Fifth segment of 
abdomen double the length of fourth, distinctly rugose-punctate at the 
sides, 6th short, densely pubescent. 
