Spfct'es of NeW'Zvuhind Coleopfcm. 67 



joint stout, sovoiitli nearly twice the bulk of the sixth ; clul) 

 ovate, solid. 



A };l;uu'o at the thorax is sulhcient to distiiif^nish tliis 

 from B. caj>i((i/is. The eyes are a little further apart and the 

 head is less pinched in behind the eyes than in the typieal 

 species. Near each side of the rostrum a very slender carina 

 extends backwards from the point of the antennal insertion, 

 l)ut does not reach the eye. 



Length (rost. incl.) '^l ; breadth J line. 



Southland. One from Mr. A. Philpott. 



lhadypat(B interstitialis, sp. n. 



Subovotc, piceo-fuscous ; scape rufous ; funiculus and tarsi 

 piccous ; irrejjularly covered witli greyish scale-like matter 

 and yellow setie. 



7'Ao;y/./* studded with small i^ranides. Ehjtrn ovate-oblong, 

 with shallow grooves formed a|)parently of large impressions, 

 and with some minute granules; tlie longitudinal interstices 

 narrow and somewhat elevated and interrupted, being com- 

 posed evidently of series of granules. 



Underside opaque, piccous, the basal and terminal ventral 

 segments reddish, the first slightly more elevated than the 

 second, broad, depressed between the coxie, and with two 

 large [junetiform foveie there and scattered punctures 

 behind; the second short, nearly smooth, with five or six 

 minute punctures only, third and fourth extremely short, 

 fifth closely and finely sculptured, with a fovea near its 

 extremity. 



In general appearance and nodosities very similar to 

 B. rapital'is, with the cxc(>|)ti(»ns detailed above. 



Length (rost. incl.) 2 ; breadth ^ line. 



Canterbury College Botanical Station, at the jujiction of 

 the Waimakariri and Broken River {Mr. J. //. Lewis). 



(Jroup HylobiidsB. 

 Stilboderma, gen. nov. 



Siuall, subovate, moderately convex, sparsely clothed with 

 sleinler hairs. 



Ro.strnm stout, arched, subcylindrical. Scrobcs visible 

 above, profound, beginning before the middle and extending 

 to the eyes ; they are expanded below, so that only a narrow 

 interval exists between them on the under surface. Antentup. 

 rather short. iScape stout, clavate at apex, attaining the 



