Species of Neio- Zealand Coleoptera. 231 



ferruginous ; the palpi, tarsi, basal five or six joints of an- 

 tennae, and hind angles of thorax testaceous ; tibiae san- 

 guineous ; vestiture yellowish, slender but conspicuous. 



Head finely and not closely punctured. Eyes prominent. 

 Antenna with infuscate setae; basal joint longest, cylindric; 

 second stouter and slightly longer than third, which is slender 

 and about equal to fourth in length ; sixth more oviform 

 than fifth and rather shorter ; joints 7, 9, and 10 enlarged, 

 oblong ; eighth small and oviform ; eleventh longer than 

 tenth, its extremity pallid. Thorax transverse, of the same 

 width as elytra at the base, a good deal curvedly narrowed 

 towards the depressed anterior angles, base truncate; its 

 surface distantly and obsoletely punctured. Scutellum minute. 

 Elytra reguhirly curvedly narrowed po^tet■iorly, with a well- 

 marked sutural stria on each, which, however, becomes obso- 

 lete near the apex ; their sculpture consists of transverse 

 series of minute crenulations. Tibice straight, finely pilose, 

 the intermediate with a few spiuilbrm setae. 



Underside shining, piceo-fuscous ; epipleurse and last two 

 ventral segments rufescent, sparingly clothed with sleuder 

 yellowish hairs, minutely and indistinctly puuctured. Front 

 and middle coxae prominent ; the former contiguous, the 

 latter separated by the mesosternal carina. Metasternum 

 convex. Terminal joint of maxillary palpi elongate, tapering 

 and acuminate. 



Mate. — Basal two joints of anterior tarsi dilated and 

 emarginate at apex, third moderately expanded, fourtli small ; 

 the intermediate and posterior simple, filiform. Thorax 

 paler. 



Most nearly related to C. monticoia, but broader, the 

 antennae less elongate, joints 9-11 shorter, and the trans- 

 versal interstices of the elytra more shining. 



? . Length 1| ; breadth nearly | line. 



Broken liiver. One of each sex from Mr. J. H. Lewis. 



Group Trogositidae. 

 Grynoma albosparsa, sp. n. 



Subdepressed, elongate, slightly shining, black, the margins 

 of elytra and the legs piceo-rufous. 



Head quite a third narrower than thorax, with coarse 

 shallow punctures, the intervals very narrow, pubescence 

 white. Palpi short, black. Antenna also black, slender and 

 elongate, basal articulation thick and distinctly punctate, 

 second subcylindrical and not so stout ; joints 3-6 slender 

 and of about equal length, seventh shorter; eighth and ninth 

 equal, evidcntls broader at the extremity than at the base ; 



