THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 17. MAY 1909. 



LTTI. — Descriptions of neio Genera and Species of New- 

 Zealana Coleoptera. By ^Nlajor T. Broun, F.E.S. 



[Continued from p. 233.] 



Group Colydiidae. 



Bitoma picicurne, sp. n. 



Slender, elongate, opaque, nigrescent ; legs testaceo- 

 fuscous ; antennae piceous; sparingly clothed with fine 

 variegated setse. 



Head nearly as large as thorax, -svith ill-defined granular 

 sculpture and greyish or yellowish setse. Eyes moderatelv 

 convex, with a few short setse which are almost minute 

 spines. Thorax small, suhtruncate, and widest in front, 

 gradually yet a good deal narrowed behind, its sides not at 

 all lobate, not distinctly crenate, but somewhat exnlanate 

 near the front ; there are two very small elevations near the 

 front, it seems depressed along the middle, and its granular 

 sculpture is not easily seen ; the setse are rather short, 

 coarse, and yellowish principally. Elytra elongate-oblong, 

 parallel, evidently wider than thorax at the base ; there is a 

 dei)ression at the middle of the base which is bordered by 

 slight elevations ; the suture appears faintly yellow owing to 

 the setse there, the space along each side of the suture seems 

 Ann. dh Mag. N. IRst. Ser. 8. Vol. iii. 27 



