Species of Ne\C' Zealand Coleoptera. 2M7 



rufo-cuprcous ; the legs, front of head, and l)asal three joints 

 of niitcnnu' tcstarrous ; remiiiniii{j joints piceo-fnscouH. 



Hvad vtrtii'al in front, finely punctate with a sh'tider 

 inttr-oeular snicns, sparsely elotlied with {greyish hairs. 

 Thorax transverse, its sides ronnded, slightly narrower in 

 front than at the base, lateial mar<iins fine and indistinct, 

 posterior anj^les reetaii;;»ilar ; the surface mo(h'rately eiosely, 

 distinctly, and somewhat irrc«;u!arly punctured, witlj a fine 

 dorsal line and a tew fine grey hairs near each side, Scu- 

 ti'ltmn smooth, viridcsient. Elytra rather short, o])long, 

 apices obtusely rounded ; shoulders slightly elevated and 

 narrowed, so tliat their base and that of the thorax are of 

 the same breadth ; they are impressed at the inside of each 

 shoulder and l)ehind the seutcllum ; the lateral margins are 

 well developed except just at the apices and sliouldcrs ; their 

 punctuation is nioderateh' coarse and close, but not quite 

 seriate ; the suture is brassy and sharply detined behind. 



Legs only moderately long and stout ; anterior femora 

 rather short. Antenme elongate and slender, the dark joints 

 with greyish pubescence. 



Undtrside fusco-tcstaceous, finely and rather closely sculp- 

 tured, with greyish pubescence; terminal ventral segment 

 with a large simple fovea. 



liroader than A. curlipes, with shorter front legs and 

 rather elongated lobes to the penultimate joint of the front 

 tarsi, and without any smooth raised spot before the 

 Bcutellum. 



Length 1 }; ; breadth I line. 



Broken Kiver {Mr. J. H Lewis) ; one individual. 



Arniwius siynatus, sp. n. 



Variegate, testaceous ; the back of the head and a trian- 

 gular space behind the seutcllum subeyaneous ; thorax more 

 or less rufo-fuseous ; it is shining and apparently glabrous. 



Head finely punctate. Thorax rather small, strongly trans- 

 verse ; apex slightly but widely emarginatc, with subacute 

 angles ; its sides much rounded, so that the posterior angles 

 are le«8 distinct than the anterior, base feebly eurvate; its 

 surface distinctly but very irregularly punctured, so that 

 sniall smooth intervals occur here and there ; its sides more 

 coarsely punctured. Elytra rather wider than thorax, base 

 Bubtruncate but very oblique near the seutcllum; they are 

 wider behind the middle than near the bai.e ; their punctua- 

 tion rather coarser than that of the thorax, but more serial. 



Legs moderately slender, rather long, the front pair 

 longest. 



