156 COLEOPTERA 



cent. Elytra obovate, substriate, the lines rather close to each other, 

 and intersected by finer ones. Legs moderate, tibiae, straight, and the 

 anterior tarsus .with its three basal joints obviously expanded. 



The antenncR are not quite so long as the body, joints three to six 

 are elongate, slender, and equal to one another, the seventh is distinctly 

 broader than the sixth or ninth, the eighth is quite as large as the sixth, 

 though smaller than the contiguous ones, and the eleventh is rather 

 short and rounded. 



Length, ii line ; breadth, \. 



I found my unique specimen at Tairua, it is, unluckily, much muti- 

 lated. 



282. M. maculifer, n.s. Obovate, widest near junction of thorax 

 and elytra, a good deal narrowed behind, moderately convex, shining, 

 versi-coloured ; head and thorax reddish-castaneous, elytra dark brown, 

 with three or four small spots of the same colour as the thorax on the 

 basal half, and three or four behind, formed of yellowish hairs. 



Head rather short and broad, smooth, with flattened eyes. Thorax 

 very short, closely applied to the elytra, considerably rounded anteriorly, 

 a little sinuated along the base, and seemingly unimpressed, or with 

 only a few aciculate marks ; it is sparingly clothed with rather dark 

 hairs. Elytra obovate, considerably narrowed behind, the apices singly 

 and rather sharply rounded ; their sculpture consists of the usual sutural 

 striae and fine transverse lines. 



The legs are slender and elongate, the tibia finely hispid, the inter- 

 mediate pair are arcuated, and the tarsi slender. The antenna are 

 slender, filiform, with the second joint shorter and stouter than the first, 

 the third is a little shorter than the fourth, joints four to seven are 

 about equal, eighth and ninth a little shorter than seventh, tenth shorter 

 than ninth, eleventh broken off. 



Length, i A line ; breadth, quite J. 



I found two at Parua, near Whangarei. This is another anomalous 

 form, and must be isolated ; it is not, I think, congeneric either with 

 the preceding or following ones, so that it will be necessary to make a 

 new generic name for it, which I hope to do next winter. 



283. M. hirtaliS, n.s. Body oblong, moderately convex, pubes- 

 cent, rather dull dark brown, legs and antennae red, the club of the 

 latter infuscate. 



Head trigonal, deflexed, more or less finely impressed with longitu- 

 dinal lines, the eyes depressed and finely facetted. Prothorax rather 

 broader than long, as wide as, and about half the length of, the elytra, 

 rounded towards the front, its base adapted to the elytra and a little 

 bisinuated ; its surface is impressed with irregularly formed, longitudinal 

 lines ; its pubescence is peculiar, the fine hairs are yellow, short, and 

 arranged in lines, with single ones proceecjing from them obliquely, 

 very much in the same way as twigs from the branch of a tree. Scutel- 

 lum triangular. Elytra transversely convex, rounded behind, of nearly 

 the same width as the thorax throughout ; their pubescence consists of 



