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which are evenly and finely margined, base not margined, surface, 

 like that of the head, evenly and finely punctate : elytra rather 

 darker in colour than the other parts, with a large mark of irregular 

 form, and more pallid colour near the base externally; they are 

 finely punctulate and indistinctly striate, the sutural and external 

 striae being, however, quite distinguishable. 



This little creature marks the existence of a quite unsuspected 

 element in the New Zealand coleopterous fauna. Though from its 

 small size it is very different from the other species of the genus known 

 to me, I am scarcely inclined to separate it generically at present ; 

 but it presents the following differential characters : The thorax has 

 no trace of basal margin, the antennal sulci are directed less inwards, 

 and the prosternal process is remarkably elongate and prominent, so 

 that it attains the front of the metasternum, the mesosternum in 

 the middle being quite smooth for its accommodation. The front 

 coxal cavities are broadly open behind. 



Kumara. Helms ; a single example. 



OBS. Dr. Sharp probably overlooked the description of No. 1166 

 (Priates optanchts), a species which differs but little from his. T. B. 



Group TROGOSITID-ffi . 



Promanus (Gen., p. 180). 



1922. P. auripilus, n.s. Elongate, parallel, subdepressed, but 

 little shining; sparsely clothed with short, bright, yellow hairs ; dark- 

 castaneous, explanate, sides of thorax and elytral rims paler, legs 

 and antennas rufo-testaceous. 



Head with but few punctures on the middle, but more closely 

 sculptured near the prominent eyes. Thorax very transverse, the 

 middle of the sides wider than the base of the elytra ; distantly and 

 moderately finely punctured, the sculpture becoming coarser towards 

 the sides. Scutellum broad, very pubescent. Elytra wider behind 

 than in front, each with about eighteen tolerably regular rows of 

 distinct punctures. Legs short. 



Two examples of P. depressus, from Otago, the only ones I have 

 seen, are rather broader than P. auripilus, but with a narrower 

 thorax, so that they are less parallel- sided ; the clothing and sculp- 

 ture, too, are essentially unlike. 



Length, of ; breadth, If lines. 



I am indebted to Mr. G. V. Hudson, of Wellington, for my 

 specimen. 



Grynoma, 



1923. G. regularis, .. (Sharp; Trans. Ent. Soc., 1882, 

 Part i., p. 78.) Oblong a, subparallela, parum convexa, fuscula ; 

 elytris ferrugineo-variegatis ; pube tenui erecta vestita ; elytris pube 

 albido-micante ornatis, punctis magnis fere seriatim dispositis sat 

 distant ibus. 



Long., 54-mm. 



