404 Major T. Broun on new Genera and 



punctuation, with smooth shining intervals, and from 

 A. sinudlus by the large size, &c. 



Length 3| ; breadth 1| line. 



Kaitoke [Mr. G. V. Hudson). A single specimen. 



Asilis apicalis, sp. n. 



Slender, parallel, depressed, moderately shining, with very 

 fme greyish pubescence; black, legs and antennae piceous. 



Head rather dull, with minute rugosities. Thorax trans- 

 versely quadrate, with obtuse but not broadly rounded 

 angles, front and lateral mai'gins of nearly equal thickness 

 throughout, with a rather broad, ill-defined, abbreviated, 

 discoidal groove, its punctuation not close and rather fine. 

 Elytra very elongate, very gradually and slightly expanded 

 backwards, rather finely and rugosely punctured, their apices 

 strongly rounded singly so as to leave a sutural gap. 

 Antenn(B relatively stout, joints 2-10 differing but little from 

 each other. 



Closely allied to A. piliventris, but distinguishable from 

 it and the other species by the almost dehiscent elytral 

 apices. 



Length 1| ; breadth f line. 



Karori, Wellington. Another of Mr. G. V. Hudson's 

 discoveries. 



Group Melyridae. 

 Dasytes aurisetifer, sp. n. 



Elongate, narrow, subopaque, black, covered with decum- 

 bent, rather short and slender, yellow setse. 



Head wider than front of thorax, its frontal portion short 

 and glabrous, antennal tubercles slightly elevated. Thorax 

 as long as it is broad, the middle widest, constricted near the 

 front so as to be rather narrower there than at the base ; 

 its punctuation, like that of the head, rather indistinct. 

 Scutellum black. Elytra evidently broader than thorax at 

 the base, moderately incurved there, so that the obtuse 

 shoulders seem prominent, apices rounded, sutural region 

 depressed, somewhat closely and finely punctured. Legs 

 elongate ; tarsi slender, the posterior nearly as long as the 

 tibiae; claws thickened, but with only minute pallid 

 membranes. 



Antenna elongate, bearing minute dark pubescence, first 

 joint slender at the base, but strongly clavate at the extremity ; 

 second stout, shorter than the basal one ; third and fourth 



