410 COLEOPTERA 



pisque fusco testaceis, pedibus testaceis, femoribus apicem versus plus 

 minusve infuscatis, capite elongate, oculis prominulis ; elytris fortiter 

 seriatim punctatis. 



Long., 3-3 \ mm. 



Antenna slender, infuscate, the basal joints a little paler than the others, 

 the three apical joints thicker than the others, yet they are slender, each 

 of them considerably longer than broad, the eleventh being longer than the 

 tenth ; palpi yellowish, with the apical joint infuscate. Head scarcely 

 so long as the thorax, the eyes are quite prominent, the sides behind 

 them gradually narrowed, and with the occiput very convex, the surface 

 is sparingly but distinctly punctured. Thorax considerably longer than 

 broad, the sides a little contracted in front of the base, and at the front 

 gradually rounded away to the neck, the surface with rather coarse and 

 close punctures. Elytra elongate and narrow, quite parallel, with the 

 shoulders well marked ; they are covered with series of closely-placed 

 coarse punctures, which are wanting however at the apex, and they bear 

 a fine scanty upright whitish pubescence. The legs are yellow, with the 

 femora, especially the hind ones, infuscate towards the apex. 



Sent from Auckland by Captain Broun and Mr. Lawson. 



FAMILY- ANTHICIDES. 



The maxilla bilobed, unarmed and ciliated. Ligula projecting. 

 Mandibles scarcely projecting beyond the labrum. Head bending, tri- 

 gonal, abruptly narrowed behind to form the neck. Eyes moderate, 

 lateral, entire. Antenna eleven-jointed, inserted laterally in front of 

 and near to the eyes, filiform or gradually incrassated. Thorax nar- 

 rower at its base than the elytra ; the pronotum and flanks confounded. 

 Anterior coxa cylindrical, prominent, contiguous, their cotyloid cavities 

 open behind ; the intermediate approximating, furnished with trochan- 

 tina ; the posterior transversal, separated by a projecting intercoxal pro- 

 cess of variable width : the hind tarsi four-jointed, the others pentamer- 

 ous ; the penultimate joint of all almost invariably sub-bilobed ; claws 

 simple. The abdomen with five distinct segments. 



Cotes. 



Sharp ; Ent. Mon, Mag^June, 1877. 



The species described below presents the following structural charac- 

 ters, so that I have been induced to give it a distinct generic name : 



Head short, abruptly truncate, distinctly exserted and furnished with 

 a stout neck ; eyes prominent, coarsely facetted. Thorax elongate, 

 deeply constricted in the middle. Hind coxa separated by a broad 

 process of the basal ventral segment ; basal ventral segment very elon- 

 gate ; legs elongate, femora simple and not clavate. Elytra not cover- 

 ing the pygidium. The insect is most allied to Tomoderus compressi- 

 collis, and should be classed between Formicomus and Tomoderus, in the 

 Anthicidcs. 



