478 COLEOPTERA. 



Group Sphaekidiidae. 

 Saphydrus Sharp. Man. N.Z. Cole.opt., p. 1014. 



3980. Saphydrus consonus sp. nov. 



Suboblong, slightly wider near the hind thighs than elsewhere, mode- 

 rately convex and nitid, closely and distinctly but not coarsely punctate ; 

 nigrescent, sides of thorax broadly testaceous ; apical portion of elytra 

 and their lateral margins, the labrum, palpi, antennae, and tarsi more or 

 less light rufo-fuscous ; legs piceo-rufous, club dull fuscous. 



Head much narrower than thorax, almost as long, gently narrowed in 

 front of the moderately prominent eyes, forehead truncate. Thorax fully 

 twice as broad as long, its sides finely margined and gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly, apex widely emarginate, with obtuse angles, the base widely 

 bisinuate, its angles obsolete. Scutellum elongate, distantly and minutely 

 punctate. Elytra more than thrice the length of thorax, hardly any broader 

 than it is at the base, with distinct, slightly reflexed lateral margins ; their 

 serial punctures close, indistinct on some parts, substriate on others, sutural 

 striae well marked behind ; pubescence ash)'^, fine and inconspicuous. 



Basal joint of antennae cylindric, its exposed portion rather longer 

 than the elongate-oval second, which is thicker and slightly longer than 

 the next, fourth and fifth short but not as broad as the transverse sixth ; 

 club laxly articulated, densely and minutely pubescent, basal two joints 

 equal, subquadrate, the terminal longer, subconical. Tibiae finely spinose 

 externally. 



Underside dull nigro - fuscous, thinly clothed with fine ashy hairs. 

 Mesosternal process acuminate in front, with a curved carina extending 

 backwards towards the outside of each of the middle coxae. Posterior 

 femora distinctly pubescent but not closely punctate. 



Sharp's *S. sujfusus, judging by description, is smaller, different in form 

 and coloration, and its punctation seems to be coarser. S. ohesus, 1818, is 

 at once separable by the dense punctation of the lower surface of the 

 posterior femora. 



Length, 6 mm. ; breadth, Z^ mm. 



Buller River, near Glenhope. A single individual from Mr. T, Hall ; 

 17th January,. 1915. 



3981. Saphydrus coUaris sp. nov. 



Nitid, rufo-fuscous ; sides of thorax, the lateral margins and apical 

 portion of elytra chestnut-red ; legs piceo-rufous, antennae, palpi, and tarsi 

 nearly so, club dull fuscous ; with slender, ashy, inconspicuous pubescence. 



Nearly allied to ;S. consonus in form, but with more convex elytra, the 

 general punctation is not perceptibly different but the ehi^ral striae are 

 rather more definite, and the uncovered portion of the basal joint of the 

 antennae is distinctly longer than the second. Thoracic angles less 

 rounded, the anterior obtusely rectangular, the posterior nearly so and 

 therefore very different from those of (S. consomts. 



Underside, except the pale prosternum, piceous, clothed with ashy 

 pubescence, posterior femora pubescent but not distinctly punctured. 



Length, 5^ mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Waiorongomai, Mount Te Aroha ; March, 1894. A single specimen 

 found by myself. 



