454 Capt. T. Broun on neio 



At first sight I thought this miglit be Kedtenbacher's 

 M. crenaiicoUe. The head, liowever, is not elongate and 

 narrow and the undei'side is far from being smooth. Tiie 

 head of Castehiau's M. cremcoUe is simply rugose and the 

 back part seems to be impunctate. A specimen of M. li'nea- 

 tum found by me at Tuakau agrees better with Kedtenbacher's 

 description, but it has the same close undulating sculpture on 

 the lower surface of the head that is seen in M. variolosnm. 



^. Length 12, breadth 3| lines. 



Kotorua, 



A single individual, given to me by Mr. J. J. Walker. 



MetagJymma rugicejjs^ sp. n. 



Suhopaque^ piceous black ; anteiuiai and tarsi pitchy red, 

 palpi paler. 



Head with coarse longitudinal rugfe near the eyes and finer 

 intervening transverse ones. Ei/es convex, distant from 

 thorax. Antennm almost nude, there being only a little fine 

 ])ubescence on the three or four terminal joints. Thorax 

 If lines long, 1\ broad; the lateral curvature is slight, but 

 near the base the contraction, tliougli considerable, is not very 

 abrupt ; the hind angles are obtuse, the base and apex sub- 

 truncate ; the disk bears numerous transverse striola?^ which 

 become deeper towards the sides ; at the base there arc short, 

 irregular, longitudinal striaj ; the fossee are large and some- 

 what oblique, the dorsal furrow does not attain the front, and 

 the lateral margins are a little explanate and feebly crenulate. 

 Ehjtra ovate-oblongj broader behind than they are elsewhere, 

 shoulders rather narrow ; they, are deeply punctate-striate, 

 the interstices nearest the sides are distinctly narrower than 

 those near the suture, apical sculpture coarsely punctiform or 

 rugose. Tihim asperate, the outer angles of the anterior 

 strongly produced, the intermediate moderately, the posterior 

 scarcely at all. Tarsi setose, the basal two articulations of 

 the front ])air considerably prolonged externally, the third 

 less so, yet more distinctly than the fourth. 



Abdomen smooth at the base, the last segment transversely 

 strigose and bearing two setigerous punctures on each side of 

 the middle at its apex, the intermediate segments with a 

 transverse series of similar punctures on each. 



M. tersatum is most like this species, but the sculpture of 

 the head and thorax is quite different, and in M. riujiceps the 

 joints of the I'ront tarsi are more evidently prolonged. 



^ . Length 7^, breadth 2^ lines. 



Albury {Mr. J. TL Lewis). One example. 



