Coleoptera from New Zealand. 419 



liind slope are serial. Legs stout, rather finely pilose. An- 

 tenncp hardly as \ox\^ as the body, fringed with short hairs 

 underneath ; second joint short, not longer than broad ; third 

 reaches beyond the base of the thorax, about a third longer 

 than the fourth ; fifth longer than the sixth, about a third 

 shorter than the fourth. ScuteUum large, triangular. 



Smaller and flatter than S. convexa^ the thorax not at all 

 rotundate. It is not similar to any other species. 



Length 2, breadth | line, 



Invercargill, I am indebted to Mr. A. Philpott for the 

 only specimen I have seen. 



Group Eumolpidae. 

 Airichatus ceneicollis, sp. n. 



Convex, oblong-oval, glabrous, shining ; fusco-testaceous, 

 head and thorax aeneous. 



Head moderately coarsely and irregularly punctured. Et/es 

 prominent. Antentice inserted near the front and inner 

 margins of the eyes ; they reach backwards beyond the middle 

 thighs ; first joint clavate, second about half the length of the 

 third. Thorax transverse, finely marginated, anterior angles 

 rectangular and depressed, the posterior laterally prominent ; 

 its sides curvate and more narrowed in front than behind, 

 widest behind the middle ; its surface moderately coarsely and 

 irregularly punctured, and with minute punctures between 

 some of the larger ones. ScuteUum large. Elytra suboblong, 

 curvedly narrowed behind the middle, the shoulders slightly 

 wider than the base of the thorax ; their sculpture consists of 

 series of moderate punctures, these become duplicate towards 

 the base, the external ones are rather larger and more 

 irregular ; on the hind slope there are two sutural strias ; most 

 of the punctures are pitchy brown, and other dark marks 

 occur, some of them quite linear. Legs robust ; tihice more 

 or less grooved along the outer face, the posterior dilated 

 towards the extremity and deeply excavate behind ; tarsi 

 with the third joint bilobed and nearly as long as the 

 second. 



Underside with yellowish-grey pubescence ; abdomen 

 fuscous ; metasternum rufo-castaneous. 



The thorax is rather larger than in A. ochraceus (No. 1099) ; 

 it is iridescent, and the four or five abbreviated apical stride 

 on the elytra of that insect are reduced in immber. 



Length 2^-2|, breadth l^-lf line. 



Ashburton. Three examples were found by Mr. W. W. 

 Smith. 



