Species of New- Zealand Coleoptera. 



335 



Group ANCHOMENID-ffi. 



Dicrocbile thoracica. 

 Anchomenus macroccelis. 



xanthomelus. 



intermedins. 



integrates. 



sophronitis. 



Ctenognatbus littorellus. 

 Taraatetbus southlandicus. 

 carbonarius. 



Group FEBONIDiE. 



Trichoaternua coelocepbalus. 



haiimereusis. 



ordinarius. 



Zeopoecilus optandus. 



Pterostichus turgidiceps. 



odontellus. 



auteunalis. 



oneroaeusis. 



flectipes. 



adoxus. 



oxyuielus. 



sinuiveutris. 



vexatus. 



perbonus. 



philpotti. 



lepidulus. 



cbalmeri. 



Group Bembidjid.t:. 

 Tacby.s coriaceus. 



Group Cnemacanthidse. 

 Mecodema acuductum, sp. n. 



Elongate, slightly convex, subopaque; black, the elytra 

 a little infuscate or rufescent, legs and antennas rufo-piceous. 



Head with numerous fine but distinct punctures in line 

 with back part of eyes, but only obsolete linear impressions, 

 the vertex almost smooth, there being only three or four 

 feeble transverse impressions, the usual lateral rugse and 

 longitudinal impressions in front are well marked ; labrum 

 broadly rounded and punctured at apex, and with a fine 

 central groove. Eyes rather small and not very prominent. 

 Thorax one-seventh broader than long, feebly incurved in 

 front, base subtruncate, but little wider near the middle than 

 it is elsewhere, a good deal narrowed towards the almost 

 rectangular but obtuse posterior angles ; lateral margins 

 crenulate, the channels not expanded in front ; the median 

 sulcus hardly attains either base or apex, being merged with 

 the abbreviated but not deep striae there ; there are a few 

 feeble transverse striae, and near the base and anterior angles 

 some indistinct punctures ; the basal impressions are deep 

 and foveiform, and placed closer to the sides than to the base. 

 Elytra elongate, oblong-oval, nearly flat; there are four- 

 very finely punctured striae at each side of the suture, the 

 fifth and sixth are deeper at the base and more distinctly 

 punctured; the seventh interstices are somewhat elevated 

 behind the shoulders, between these and the smooth space 

 near each side there are two series of moderately coarse 

 closely placed punctures, neither of which reaches the base or 

 apex, marginal sculpture normal ; there are no interstitial 

 punctures, but their whole surface, particularly behind, is 



