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NEW ZEALAND COLEOPTERA. 



PART III. 



Group-CNEMACANTHIDJE. 



Mecodema (p. ?) 



1322. M. rugicolle, n.s. Body moderately glossy, brownish- 

 black ; legs and antennae rufo-piceous ; elongate, sub-parallel. 



Head nearly smooth on the middle, longitudinally rugose in 

 front, irregularly wrinkled laterally, its posterior portion covered 

 with transversal linear impressions and punctures ; labrum broadly 

 rounded, bearing a row of coarse punctures and ferruginous bristles. 

 Prothorax sub-depressed, its length and breadth about equal, widely 

 rounded laterally, abruptly narrowed behind, its sides almost crenate ; 

 the surface has a distinct median groove not attaining the apex, 

 many transversal furrows deepest near the sides, some abbreviated 

 longitudinal striae in front, and a row of obvious punctures, with 

 elongated ferruginous bristles proceeding from them, along the rims ; 

 the basal foveae are well denned, and placed close to the edges of 

 the contracted part. Elytra cylindrical, slightly convex, each with 

 three rows of distant punctures on the disc, the sides and apices 

 more coarsely and irregularly punctured ; their surface exhibits a 

 few aciculate impressions, but no distinct striae. Underside piceous ; 

 flanks of the prosternum punctate, those of the mesosternum similarly 

 but more densely impressed ; abdomen with distant shallow punctures 

 near the sides ; the head transversely rugulose. 



Differs from all the other species of the genus having crenulated 

 thoracic margins by the sculpture of the head and thorax, &c. 



Length, n lines; breadth, 3^. 



Described from a mutilated specimen found by Mr. P. Stewart- 

 Sandager near Taranaki. 



Metaglymma (p. 10). 



1323. M. punctifer, n.s. Elongate, slightly convex, medially 

 narrowed, glossy-black, scarcely bronzed ; tarsi and antennae pitchy- 

 black, tips of the palpi pale in colour. 



Head moderate, longitudinally bi-impressed in front, a little con- 

 stricted behind, and punctured in line with the back part of the eyes ; 

 these latter prominent. Prothorax longer than broad, margined, its 

 sides but little curved, considerably contracted behind, with sorne- 

 i PT. in. 



