234 Ciipt. T. Broun on new 



XXIX. — Descr{j)tions of new Cohoptera from New Zealand. 

 By Captain Thos. Broun. 



[Continued from p. 203.] 



Group Elateridae. 



Lomemus puncticollis^ sp. n. 



Elongate, not parallel, slightly nitid ; smoky black, legs 

 yellow, basal three joints of antenna? a little rufescent ; the 

 pubescence on the elytra ash-coloured and slender for the 

 most part, but near the shoulders and on tlie thorax it is 

 yellow and conspicuous. 



Head densely and distinctly punctured ; the forehead 

 rounded in front, its edge smooth, but not sharply defined. 

 Thorax longer than broad, slightly and gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly ; posterior angles not divergent ; its surface densely 

 and moderatel}'' coarsely punctured, with a feebly marked 

 longitudinal groove down the middle. Elytra moderately 

 narrowed posteriorly, apices slightly dehiscent ; evidently 

 striate ; the strias not perceptibly punctured, they are more or 

 less obsolete near the base, but the sutural ones are deepened 

 behind; interstices finely transversely rugose; near the base 

 the sculpture is almost granular. 



Antennce serrate, reaching backwards to beyond the middle 

 thighs, with fine pubescence only; second and third joints 

 short, and conjointly about a third shorter than the fourth, 

 which is rather longer than the fifth ; joints 4 to 10 with the 

 outer angles a little prolonged. 



$ . Subparallel, not narrow ; pubescence cinereous, with 

 scarcely any yellow ; thorax but little narrowed towards the 

 front ; antennae nearly filiform, the second and third joints as 

 long as the fourth, rufo-fuscous. 



Var. ( ^ ). — Shoulders and thoracic angles fusco-testaceous. 



The densely and very obviously punctured thorax and obso- 

 letely punctate elytral stride differentiate this from L. flavipes^ 

 Sharp, whilst the even curvature of the forehead and larger 

 size show that it cannot be the L. similis of the same author. 



(J. Length 2|, breadth | line. 



Ngatira, on the Rotorua railway. One pair. 



Zeaglophus, gen. nov. 

 Head rather small. Forehead curved in front, without 



