1102 COLEOPTEEA 



the second and third series towards the suture behind the supple- 

 mentary series ; they are rather elongate and completely cover the 

 hind-body. The legs are short. 

 Picton. Helms; two examples. 



1957. S. fermgineus, n.s. Subdepressed, elongate-oblong, 

 narrow, shining ; dark-red, palpi and tarsi yellow ; with some fine 

 hairs on the hinder portion of the elytra. 



Head distinctly punctured, not so closely between the eyes as 

 elsewhere. Antenna pubescent, their second joint rather longer 

 than exposed part of the first ; third slightly longer than fourth ; 

 joints 4-8 nearly equal, each, however, becoming a little shorter and 

 broader ; club laxly triarticulate, ninth and tenth joints transverse. 

 Palpi with ovate terminal joints. Thorax cordiform, length and 

 breadth about equal, front angles depressed and rounded, the pos- 

 terior rather sharp and rectangular, its sides very little curved but 

 considerably narrowed behind, base finely margined and bisinuate, 

 not touching the elytra ; disc obsoletely impressed, distinctly but not 

 closely punctured, with fewer punctures in front and behind. 

 Scutellum moderate as to size. Elytra with the margins a little 

 explanate towards the apices ; their punctures disposed in series, 

 but with a shorter row near the base between the first and second 

 complete series. Legs stout, tibia3 gradually expanded towards the 

 extremity, spinose there ; tarsi with comparatively elongate con- 

 spicuous vestiture. 



Underside glossy-red ; metasternum moderately distantly punc- 

 tured, with three more or less obvious longitudinal grooves ; abdomen 

 with short yellow hairs, most apparent 011 the last segment. 

 Epipleura rather broad and flat alongside the abdomen. 



Length, f ; breadth, -|- line. 



Mount Cook. I am indebted to Mr. Suter for my specimens. 



Tularthrum. 



Nov. gen. 



Body suboblong, depressed. Antenna inserted at the sides in 

 front of the eyes, longer than the body ; joints 3-11 filiform ; basal 

 joint with a thick stalk, terminating in a transversal incrassation, the 

 anterior portion of which is strongly curved and acute at the inner 

 extremity ; second as long as the fourth, dilated apically and twisted, 

 so that its upper face is about twice as broad as the portion under- 

 neath, it is articulated to the front of the inner curvate portion of 

 the first ; third elongate, slightly shorter than the following one ; 

 5-11 elongate, about equal, each longer than the fourth. Terminal 

 joints of the palpi almost aciculate. Eyes widely distant above, free, 

 quite lateral, small, subrotundate, distinctly facetted. Mandibles 

 extremely broad near the base, concave below, dilated laterally, pro- 

 minent, acute and bifid at the extremity. Labrum small, transverse, 

 ciliate and subtruncate in front. Head nearly as large as the thorax, 

 narrowed and prolonged in front of the antennae, with a straight 

 frontal suture ; truncate in front below, and with thick, porrect, 



