536 COLEOPTERA. 



Rather smaller than A. impressa (3418), much paler, the thorax with 

 less prominent front angles and very different discal impressions. Terminal 

 joint of labial palpi attached to the preceding one at almost right angles. 



Length. 5J mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Bluff, Southland. A single specimen, found by Mr. A. Philpott on the 

 1st December, 1914. 



4063. Atopida montaxia sp. nov. 



Elongate, moderately convex ; thinly covered with slender, elongate, 

 more or less erect, pale-yellowish hairs ; head and thorax subopaque and 

 rufescent ; elytra nited, fusco-testaceous, the suture nigrescent, each elytron 

 with a pale-brown, indefinite, subapical mark ; legs and antennae sub- 

 testaceous. 



Head, mandibles exclusive, much longer than thorax but hardly as broad, 

 distinctly punctate-granulose, closely near the sides, less so on the middle. 

 Labrum moderately developed and semicircularly emarginate, but leaving the 

 rufous mandibles exposed even at the base. Thorax twice as broad as long, 

 apex subtruncate, with nearly rectangular but not prominent, slightly de- 

 flexed angles ; its sides slightly rounded, a little narrower behind than in front, 

 posterior angles rectangular ; its sculpture is like that of the head, but there is 

 a smooth spot on the middle and a more flattened one at the base. Scutellum 

 elongate. Elytra nearly six times the length of thorax, rather broader 

 than it is at the base, the shoulders obtuse but embracing the thoracic 

 angles ; they are rather coarsely and irregularly punctured, quite finely 

 near the extremity. 



Antennae longer than the head and thorax, basal joint stout, oblong, 

 twice the size of the next, third elongate yet shorter than the following, 

 slightly infuscate ones. 



Underside finely and indistinctly granulate, somewhat infuscate. 



Terminal joint of the labial palpi attached at about right angles to the 

 inner side of the penultimate, which is finely setose and subtruncate at the 

 extremity. 



In coloration this resembles the much smaller A. dorsalis (2023), in which, 

 moreover, the granulation of the head and thorax is simple, a good deal 

 finer and more distant. 



Length, 4| mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



Mount Owen. Found by Mr. T. Hall, at a height of 5,500 ft., on the 

 27th December, 1914. In my second specimen the smooth thoracic spots 

 are absent, and the shoulders do not extend forward so as to clasp the 

 posterior angles of the thorax — possibly only sexual disparities. 



Veronatus Sharp. Man. N.Z. Colcopt., p. 314. 



4064. Veronatus sternalis sp. nov. 



Elongate, slightly convex, subopaque ; irregularly covered with decum- 

 bent y.'llow pubescence; fusco-castaneous. legs, antennae, and ])alpi paler, 

 mandibles rufous. 



Head, excluding the mandibles, rather shorter than thorax, evidently 

 narrower, a little uneven, closely and moderately finely punctured. Thorax 

 nearly twice as broad as long, apex subtruncate. slightlv sinuate towards 

 the obtuse angles, the^se hardly extend as far forward as the middle ; the 

 sides finely margined and gently curved ; base subtruncate in the middle, 

 somewhat sinuate towards the nearly rectangular angles ; disc closely 



