1456 COLEOPTEEA 



prosternum is slightly broader and pubescent. The mesosternurn 

 has its front margin more sharply defined. 



Length, 4 ; breadth, If lines. 



Karaka, near Drury. Five, taken off Cordyline banksi. 



AmplectOpUS (Gen., p. 1137, Part V.). 



2526: A. palllCOrnis, n.s. Oval, convex, slightly shining, 

 infuscate-red, tarsi yellow, clothed with fine, depressed, greyish- 

 yellow hairs. 



Head finely punctured. Thorax slightly bisinuate at the base, 

 quite indistinctly punctate. Scutellum curvilinearly triangular. 

 Elytra oblong-oval, apices a little explanate ; their sculpture fine, 

 not close, that of the basal portion apparently granular. 



Antenna testaceous, first joint reddish, oblong; second sub- 

 quadrate, oblique at the base and apex, its point of articulation 

 narrow and quite at one side ; third longer than broad, slender near 

 the base, its apex emarginate at the inner portion ; fourth nearly as 

 long as the preceding one at the outside, but narrowed and produced 

 inwardly ; fifth of similar form but smaller ; 6-10 transverse ; tenth 

 not broader than the ninth. 



Underside reddish, very finely pubescent ; metasternum large, 

 more distinctly punctured than the abdomen, the suture rounded 

 between the middle coxae. 



Length, ; breadth, J line. 



Mount Pirongia. Two, found by Mr. A. T. Urquhart. The 

 structure of the antennae, and their coloration, differentiate this 

 species. There are other species, but they cannot be described at 

 present, as the antennae are hidden. 



Group OPATRID-ffi. 



Periatrum (Gen., p. 1152, Part V.). 



2527. P. tumipes, n.s. Oblong, hardly at all convex, opaque ; 

 sparingly clothed with decumbent yellow setae on the head and 

 thorax, on the disc of the elytra the setae are minute and pallid ; 

 rufo-fuscous, the head and the sides of the thorax usually paler, or 

 reddish, the legs, antennae, and palpi yellow, or infuscate-yeilow. 



Head irregularly punctate and rugose. Thorax rather broader 

 than long, widest near the front, apex emarginate, base bisinuate ; 

 lateral margins somewhat reflexed, irregularly serrate, or with four 

 or five indentations, not always alike, posterior angles generally 

 obtuse; the disc more or less closely and rugosely punctured, the 

 depressed space between it and the side with some small setigerous 

 granules ; a linear impression extends from the base to the apex, 

 ending in a small notch in front of the scutellum, which is distinct. 

 Elytra oblong, rather wider than the thorax at the base, the 

 shoulders obtusely prominent ; the sides a little undulate behind 

 the middle, rather abruptly bent inwards, and unequally elevated, 

 or nodose, behind the top of the posterior declivity ; their sculpture 



