OF NEW ZEALAND. 545 



or emarginate. Prothorax furnished above with a transverse ante-basal 

 or basal carina which is elevated at the sides. Anterior and interme- 

 diate coxce sub-globular ; the former slightly separated, their cotyloid 

 cavities closed behind ; the posterior strongly transversal. Tibia trurr- 

 cated at their extremity, never mucronated or spurred ; tarsi quadri- 

 articulate, the third joint nearly always very small and concealed between 

 the lobes of the second ; claws free, provided with a tooth underneath. 

 The abdomen composed of five sub-equal segments ; its pygidium 

 exposed ; the projecting intercoxal process like a narrow triangle and 

 acuminate anteriorly. 



Anthribus. 



Geoffr. ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. vii.,/. 575. 



Head longer than broad ; rostrum longer than it, slightly and 

 gradually widened in front, with the front strongly and triangularly 

 hollowed, its scrobes distant from the eyes, very deep, almost rounded. 



Antenna as long as the body, robust ; first joint very thick, sub- 

 ovate, longer than the second, which is very short ; joints three to eight 

 elongated, sub-equal ; ninth to eleventh forming an elongate club, the 

 tenth shorter than the ninth and eleventh, the latter long, acuminate. 

 Eyes finely facetted, small, convex, almost rounded, lateral, slightly 

 emarginate in front. Prothorax longer than broad, convex, rounded 

 laterally, narrowed in front. 



Scutellum almost rounded. Elytra moderately elongated, convex, 

 depressed on the disc, a little wider than the thorax, and emarginated 

 at their base, with their shoulders rectangular. 



Legs moderate, about equal ; femora clavate, the posterior obviously 

 shorter than the abdomen ; tarsi moderate, first joint half as long again 

 as the second, third small, concealed, the claw teeth sub-medial ; front 

 coxae rather strongly separated. 



Pygidium like a transversal curvilinear-triangle. Metasternum short, 

 its projecting process wide, vertical, transversely quadrate. 



Body oblong, finely pubescent. 



The New Zealand species bear the above generic name provision- 

 ally ; very few indeed, if any, will retain.it. In the Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History for June, 1876, p. 425, Dr. Sharp gives a table 

 of the more prominent characters as an aid to the identification of the 

 species. 



962. A. Spinifer, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. 

 A. capite longius rostrato, oculis convexis, niger, fusco-nigro tomen- 

 tosus ; capite ad oculorum margines, prothorace basi utrinque scutel- 

 loque tenuiter ochraceo lineatis; coleopteris brevibus latis, sutura medio 

 acute elevata, apice bipenicillata. 



Long. corp. (rostro incl.), 5 mm. 



Antennce. reaching to the back of the thorax, black, with the eighth 

 joint clothed with white hairs; first and second joints rather long, about 

 equal to one another ; of three to eight each 1 is a little shorter than its 



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