Cofeoplera from New Zealand. 77 



prolonged anteriorly, tlic front is depressed ; tlie vertex is 

 convex and angidarly produced ; it is punctate, with very 

 slejider liairs. Thorux hardly lonp^cr than broad, oval, the 

 middle widest ; its surface more or less finely ])unctate, there 

 is a hn\i;e angular impression on the middle near the base; at 

 each side an elongate t'ovea extends from the hind angle to 

 beyond the middle ; the central channel is extremely narrow, 

 and extends from the base to the aj)ex. Elytra longer than 

 broad, wider than the thorax, indefinitely punctured; the 

 sutural striie are broad and deep near the base, between each 

 of these and the broad elongate impression inside the shoulder 

 there is a sort of costa; the humeral angles also are a little 

 raised. Hind body shorter than tlie elytra, tiie three aj)ical 

 segments deilexed ; the basal with a large transverse median 

 depression ; each side of this is indistinctly elevated. Legs 

 stout, the front thighs incrassatc and arched above ; the 

 middle and hind tibiae rather slender and slightly curved ex- 

 ternally, the anterior a good deal swollen inwardly near the 

 middle and densely ciliate below. 



Antennw rather short; second joint nearly as long as the 

 first, not bead-like ; third very little longer than broad ; joints 

 4 to 8 transverse and differing but little ; the seventh, how- 

 ever, is slightly larger than the following one; ninth and 

 tenth evidently larger than the preceding ones, ninth slightly 

 larger than tenth ; eleventh large, ovate, acuminate. 



Underside : head with erect setce ; prosternum subcarinate 

 along the middle; metasternum impressed; fifth ventral 

 segment with a median impression ; coxa contiguous, the 

 posterior large and prominent. 



Barely half the bulk of Dahna puhescens. The antennal 

 tubercles are not much raised and are obviously separated ; 

 interposed between each of these and the eye there is a smaller 

 elevation. The basal portion of the thorax is more distinctly 

 sculptured than the disk. An examination of the anterior 

 tibitu will lead to its recognition. 



Length il, breadth f[uite ^ line. 



llunua Kange, Drury. One, April 1893, probably a male. 



Euplectus imrvulusj sp. n. 



liufous, elytra, legs, and antcnnaj paler; tarsi and palpi 

 yellow ; body subdepressed, narrowed anteriorly, rather 

 closely clothed w ith short and tiiiek hairs or setiform scales, 

 as well as slender hairs ; the pubeseence on the head and 

 thorax more scanty, longer, and quite slender. 



IJcad narrower than the thorax, but not nmch shorter, 



