8l2 COLEOPTER<\. 



the basal tubercles moderately large but simple, moderately coarsely 

 punctated almost to the extremity, and clothed with decumbent 



Eallid hairs. Antenna slender, with erect cinereous hairs; third and 

 Durth articulations elongate. Legs rather slender, with white hairs. 

 Allied to H. promissus. 



Length, 2 lines; breadth, (nearly) line. 



I found one on the Waitakerei Eange, near Auckland. 



1442. H. picitarsis, n.s. Narrow, scarcely depressed; an- 

 tennae and legs infuscate-red, the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi 

 piceous ; body mostly of a pitchy hue, but with the base and apex of 

 the thorax, as well as the shoulders and apices of the elytra, ru- 

 fescent, these latter with a straight blackish fascia just in rear of 

 the hind thighs ; pubescent. 



Head nearly smooth on the middle, so sculptured as to seem 

 covered with transverse granular elevations, clothed with fine yellow 

 hairs. Prothorax as long as broad, obtusely dilated medially at the 

 sides, depressed in front and behind, finely wrinkled transversely, 

 its clothing yellowish. Elytra sub-parallel, basal tubercles simple 

 and obsolete, their surface more or less pitted with irregular punc- 

 tures to beyond the middle, their decumbent hairs become greyish 

 posteriorly. Legs stout, their clothing rather short. Antennas longer 

 than body, bearing long griseous hairs; third and fourth joints elon- 

 gate. Resembles H. simplex only. 



Length, 2 lines ; breadth, (nearly) line. 



Mr. T. F. Cheeseman brought one example from Mount Arthur. 



1443. H. pusillus, n.s. Sub-depressed, oblong, variegate, 

 principally pitchy-red, the elytra having the basal region and two 

 curved anti-apical fasciae (not always distinct) blackish, the ex- 

 tremity of the tibiae and all but the two basal joints of the antennae 

 piceous. 



Head granulated. Prothorax about as long as broad, depressed 

 along its base, the sides obtusely dilated and then contracted be- 

 hind ; its disc granulated, and clothed with pale brassy hairs. 

 Elytra coarsely punctured to near the apices, their basal tubercles 

 small and not crested, bearing fine grey and long erect cinereous 

 hairs. The legs are clothed with -long white hairs; the antenna 

 with greyish ones. 



H* cristatellus has tufted tubercles ; H. parvus may be said to 

 have none at all, and its antennas are unspotted, which is not the 

 case in the present species ; No. 1320 is larger and differs other- 

 wise ; in H. fasciatus the basal region is nearly nude and shining, 

 and on that part the punctures though moderately close are not 

 coarse. 



Length, i J lines ; breadth, f line. 



I found five individuals at Northcote (Waitemata) . 



