Genera and Species of New Zealand Coleoptera. 455 



Metaglymma calcaraium, sp. n. 



Shining, rufo-piceous ; legs, antennre, and palpi pitchy red. 



Head smooth. Eyes prominent, distant from thorax. 

 Mandibles elongate, distiuctlj punctured above, rugose near 

 the base. Antennce nearly glabrous, having only a little 

 pubescence on the last four joints. Thorax 2| lines in 

 breadth by 1| in length ; apex arcuate-emarginate, slightly 

 wider before the middle than it is elsewhere ; its sides, how- 

 ever, are apparently gradually narrowed backwards ; lateral 

 margins somewhat explanate from the rounded front angles 

 to within a short distance of the base, where they form quite 

 a thin edge ; the base is slightly emarginate in the middle, 

 but rounded towards the sides, so that the posterior angles 

 are obsolete ; basal fossa rather large, median groove abbre- 

 viated. Elytra oval, rather broader than the thorax, shoulders 

 rather narrow, distinctly punctate-striate ; posterior sculpture 

 irregular and interujingled with several setigerous punctures, 

 of which there are also three on the seventh interstices. 



Tihice moderately asperate, the anterior somewhat explanate 

 along the outer edge and prolonged at the extremity ; the 

 inner calcar is long and extends as far as the apex of the 

 third tarsal joint; intermediate also prolonged outwardly, tlie 

 posterior less so ; the two spurs on each of the hinder pairs 

 are elongate. Tarsi setose, their basal articulations but little 

 angulate. 



Underside piceo-rufous ; basal abdominal segment with two 

 pairs of setigerous punctures, the second and third with a 

 transverse series on each, the terminal transversely strigose 

 and with a single puncture on each side of the middle at its 

 apex. 



This species should be located next to M. modicum, but tlie 

 shape of the thorax, the general sculpture, the development 

 of the tibial spurs, and antennal pubescence distinguish it. 



Length 7|, breadth 2^ lines. 



Maniototo, Taieri. 



One individual from Mr. J. II. Lewis. 



Group AnchomenidsB. 

 Dichrochile cordicolle, sp. n. 



Subdepressed, ovate-oblong, glossy black ; tarsi and an- 

 tennas rutb piceous; the basal three joints of these latter, the 

 knees, and tips of palpi rufescent. 



Head large, minutely and irregularly wrinkled in front. 

 Labrum deeply notched. Eyes prominent. Antennae tlongdte. 



