70 On new New-Zealand Coleoptera, 



most distinct near the sides ; interstices apparently slightly 

 rugose, under the microscope the fifth seem to have a series 

 of minute granules. 



Underside dull piceous, moderately coarsely punctured, the 

 squama and slender setae pallid. 



Length (rost. inch) 1^; breadth ^ line. 



Broken River. 



Another of the numerous discoveries made by Mr. J. II. 

 Lewis. Four specimens. 



Group Cylindrorhinidae. 

 Saryon hudsoni^ sj). n. 



Elongate, moderately convex, subopaque, nigrescent ; 

 sparingly clothed with minute, inconspicuous, round greyish 

 scales, those on the rostrum and sides of thorax more elon- 

 gate and brighter, a few being viridescent and pink. 



Rostrum a little shorter than thorax and half its width, 

 with two ill-defined ridges starting from the interocular 

 groove and extending obhquely forwards, and Avith a well- 

 developed central carina ; the surface rather finely punc- 

 tured, more closely near the sides, the apical portion setose. 

 - Thorax about equal in length and breadth, its sides almost 

 straight behind, obliquely narrowed near the front, apex 

 slightly medially emarginate; surface uneven, with coarse 

 irregular rugosities near the sides ; the longitudinal furrow 

 deep and broad, its punctuation rather fine and close on the 

 middle, coarser near the sides and base. Scutellum in- 

 distinct. Elytra oblong, shoulders curvedly narrowed, yet 

 distinctly wider than thorax at the base, obliquely narrowed 

 and deflexed posteriorly, apices slightly divergent at the 

 suture, but not prolonged ; their surface rather finely and 

 not closely punctured; each with six discoidal strife having 

 a few coarse punctures at the base; third and fifth inter- 

 stices costiform, the former most prominent on top of the 

 posterior declivity, but prolonged, though less elevated, to 

 the extremity ; the fifth terminates very abruptly, so as to 

 appear nodiform behind ; seventh moderately raised from 

 behind each shoulder to the declivity, so as to form a thick 

 margin. 



Leys stout, with more brightly coloured scales than the 

 elytra; posterior corbels simple, without any external 

 truncature. 



Underside a little shining, black, finely punctured ; the 

 sternum and basal ventral segments with somewhat rufesceut 



