1112 COLEOPTERA 



Head narrow and elongate, closely punctured ; mandibles small, 

 bidentate at apex ; eyes moderate, distant from thorax. Antenna 

 shining, black, basal joint about as long as the following six taken 

 together, much bent; second short and broad; joints 3-7 compact, 

 obliquely articulated ; club three-jointed, each leaflet equalling the 

 rest of the antennae in length, quite filiform, third straight, the 

 others flexuous, all bearing extremely long, slender, black hairs. 

 Thorax strongly transverse, anterior angles subacute and prominent, 

 widest behind the middle, obliquely narrowed to\vards the front, 

 slightly sinuously narrowed behind ; base strongly bisinuate, its 

 angles acutely rectangular ; disc convex, sides depressed, lateral 

 margins crenulate, with two conspicuous median tubercles ; its 

 punctures very large, very close together so that the interstices are 

 quite linear, they are filled for the most part with flat black scales. 

 Scutellum large, squamose. Elytra oblong, apices individually 

 broadly rounded ; the suture much elevated from the scutellum 

 backwards to hind slope, shoulders also raised ; the sculpture less 

 easily seen than that of the thorax. Tibia pilose, anterior denticu- 

 late externally with one median tooth, in addition to the apical one. 



There is but one species like this M. gibbosus the two, 

 nevertheless, distinct. The scales on that insect are large, and 

 overlap one another ; in M. tuberculatus the paler scales are minute, 

 so that the general dark ground-colour is not relieved when viewed 

 with the eyes only. Antennae similar to those of M. macrocerus. 



. Length, 3 ; breadth, If lines. 



Clevedon. One mutilated male, from Mr. G. Munro. 



Mitophyllus, formerly considered a synonyme of Ceratognathus, 

 may be distinguished primarily by the presence of tw r o tooth-like 

 projections on the outside of the front tibiae, one at the middle, the 

 other apical. It comprises the undermentioned species : 



M. irroratus, Parry. 



M. foveolatus, Broun. 



M. marmoratus, Waterhouse. 



M. macrocerus, Broun. 



M. fusculus, 



M. gibbosus, 



M. tuberculatus, 



M. parry anus, Hope. = M. zealandicus, Broun. 



Ceratognathus has four New Zealand species : 



C. alboguttatus, Bates. 

 C. dispar, Sharp. 

 C. helotoides, Thomson. 

 C. sexpustulatus, Bates. 



Group COPRID-ffi . 



Saphobius. 



1971. S. inflatipes, n.s. Subquadrate, convex, opaque, spar- 

 ingly clothed with short fulvous setae ; nigro-seneous, legs pitchy-red, 

 antennal club infuscate. 



Head curvedly narrowed anteriorly, moderately bidentate in 

 front ; its punctation shallow, not dense. Thorax transverse, its 



