1122 COLEOPTERA 



are covered with transverse rugosities. The lateral edges of the 

 forehead are much more elevated and more distinctly prolonged an- 

 teriorly. The antenna are more elongate, rather more serrate, the 

 fourth joint is distinctly longer than the fifth, and the third is about 

 one-fourth shorter than the second. The other disparities are indi- 

 cated above. 



Length, 2J lines ; breadth, line. 



Waitakerei Kange. One individual only. 



1992. P. pubesceilS, n.s. Elongate, subcylindric, a little shin- 

 ing, clothed with greyish-yellow hairs, those on the thorax quite 

 conspicuous and rather yellower than the others ; fusco-niger, the 

 thighs and thoracic angles pallid-testaceous, tibiae and tarsi infus- 

 cate, basal joint of antennae fulvescent. 



Smaller and more slender than P. guttatus ; the thorax more 

 distantly punctured, the punctures and interstices of about equal 

 size, its surface quite shining, the basal angles more divergent. 

 Elytra almost similarly sculptured, but quite unspotted, and with 

 rugose interstices. Intermediate tibiae somewhat bent. Antennas 

 distinctly serrate, the joints like those of P. costiceps. The head is 

 more finely punctured, and the space between the antennal cavities 

 is hardly more than half the width it is in No. 547. 



Length, 2f lines ; breadth, % line. 



Mount Te Aroha. Described from a specimen which was found 

 by Mr. A. T. Urquhart. 



Thoramus. 



1993. T. huttoni, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 400.) Nigricans, parum nitidus ; prothorace elongate, anterius 

 angustate, crebre subtiliter irregulariter punctato, dorso utrinque 

 area impunctato ; elytris subtiliter striatis, interstitiis crebre obsolete 

 punctatis. 



Mas, antennis articulis secundo, tertioque brevissirnis, 4-10 

 angulo apicale interne sat producto. 



Long., 19mm. 



This species is readily distinguished from others of the genus by 

 the fine prothoracic punctuation ; it also possesses an important 

 structural peculiarity, the sides of the mesosternal cavity being 

 very much shorter in front : this character is so striking that it may 

 prove to be of generic importance ; the metasternum between the 

 middle coxae is not very well co-adapted with the mesosternal cavity 

 at the sides, but in the middle the two are consolidated. 



Dunedin. Professor Hutton. A single example was sent me 

 from this locality in 1879 by the eminent naturalist in whose honour 

 T have named it. 



OBS. Thoramus wakefieldi and T. obscurus have been met with 

 by Mr. Helms in some numbers near Picton ; both run through 

 similar variations in size and some of the smaller details, and I now 

 feel pretty certain that the suspicion I expressed as to the two being 



