1340 COLEOPTERA 



reddish ; it is densely clothed with tine, depressed, cinereous 

 pubescence, but on the head, the sides of the thorax, and the 

 base of the elytra the hairs are yellowish and rather coarser. 



Head finely sculptured. Antenna rather longer than the head 

 and thorax, moderately stout ; sixth joint nearly one-third shorter 

 than the contiguous ones ; seventh slightly larger than fifth ; eighth 

 very small. Thorax transversal, base subtruncate, the posterior 

 angles rectangular, not prolonged backwards, the sides only mode- 

 rately curved; the sculpture fine. Elytra not much narrowed 

 posteriorly, with a sutural stria on each, with fine transversal 

 strigose sculpture. Legs pubescent, middle tibiae curvate, the 

 spurs of the hind pair about two-thirds of the length of the basal 

 tarsal joint ; front tarsi moderately dilated. 



Female. Tarsi narrow. Underside convex, fuscous, finely 

 sculptured and pubescent ; fifth segment of abdomen longer than the 

 fourth, much incurved apically ; sixth very small ; middle of meso- 

 sternum densely transversely strigose. 



Narrower than its allies; smaller than C. lugubris, and much 

 less attenuated posteriorly. 



Length, If lines ; breadth, quite ^ line. 



Moeraki. Found by Mr. Sandager at his house. 



Group TROGOSITID-flE. 

 Grynoma (Gen., p. 181). 



2351. G. varians, n.s. Subdepressed, a little shining, varie- 

 gate; irregularly clothed with white, and long, slender, erect, 

 fuscous or greyish, hairs. 



Antennce, dark, the basal joint reddish or nearly testaceous. 

 Tlwrax twice as broad as long, the sides almost regularly curved 

 and explanate, the middle widest, hind angles not acute ; the disc 

 fuscous and subopaque, sides nearly testaceous, the sculpture close 

 but very shallow. Scutellum transverse, opaque. Elytra gradually 

 widened posteriorly, obscure infuscate-red, but with most of the 

 basal region, a strip along the suture extending as far as the middle, 

 an irregular band behind the posterior femora, another just below 

 the top of the hind declivity, and other spots, smoky-brown ; these 

 spots appear to be nude, the whitish pubescence being confined to 

 the paler portions, the lateral margins are like those of the thorax ; 

 the punctures are coarse, but not close as in G. fusca, and more or 

 less irregular, but with a tendency to become serial ; the erect hairs 

 proceed from them ; the surface looks somewhat uneven. Legs 

 fusco-testaceous, the tips of the tarsi darker. 



This, I think, makes a near approach to G. regularis. It is 

 smaller, and the form seems to be different, appearing as if gradually 

 narrowed towards the front ; the erect setae are long, as long as they 

 are in G. diluta. 



Length, 2 lines ; breadth, 1 line. 



Taieri. Mr. S. W. Fulton; one individual. 



