Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 407 



usually longitudinally rugose. Thorax evidently widest 

 behind the middle, considerably obliquely narrowed behind, 

 closely and distinctly punctured, with two slightly raised 

 smooth spots before the middle, two others and a linear 

 space near the base. Elytra slightly widened backwards, 

 coarsely punctured nearly in longitudinal series, there is a 

 sutural depression near the base bordered with slightly 

 obtuse elevations, apex impunctate. 



Var. — Smooth spots on thorax and testaceous marks near 

 elytral suture indistinct, antennae and legs paler. 



Length 2^ lines, 



P. opiloides is the nearest ally. 



Length 3 ; breadth 1 line. 



Waitakerei Range, Auckland, Described from specimens 

 in my own collection, 



Metaxina, gen. nov. 



Palpi short, robust ; terminal articulation of the labial 

 subtriangular or securiform, truncate at apex ; the maxillary 

 longer, their last joint quite oblique at the extremity. 

 Tarsi pentamerous ; basal joint abbreviated above, its lobes 

 prolonged below ; joints 2-4 of nearly equal length, their 

 lobes also prolonged but without perceptible lamellae under- 

 neath ; fifth simple, nearly as long as the preceding four 

 conjointly ; basal joints of the anterior furnished with long 

 slender, brush-like setae underneath. Eyes prominent, dis- 

 tinctly facetted, apparently rotundate, in reality transversely 

 broadly oviform, not emarginate, Prosternum truncate in 

 front. CoxcB with trochanters; the anterior prominent, 

 separated only by the thin prosternal process ; intermediate 

 rather less prominent, almost contiguous ; the posterior 

 small, only moderately separated, Metasternum moderately 

 elongate. Abdomen composed of six segments, the basal 

 rather larger than the others, 2-5 about equal; sixth short, 

 deeply emarginate, with a supplementary conical segment 

 protruding therefrom. Antenna 11-articulate, not clavate ; 

 inserted, not in cavities, but on slight prominences, or arti- 

 culations, in front of the eyes ; basal joint stout, pyriform, 

 third slightlylonger than second or fourth; joints 4-8 nearly 

 equal, each longer than bro;:d and narrowed at the base ; 

 9 and 10 distinctly broader than the preceding, but little 

 longer ; eleventh rather larger and oviform ; these organs 

 therefore more nearly resemble those of our Paupris and 

 Parmius than of Phymatophma. 



The type of this genus is quite unlike any Australian or 



