Coleoptera.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 91 



much resemble the New Zealand Demetrida picea, but the head is more like that of 

 the European Anopthnlmus bilimeki, both of which belong to separate and entirely 

 different groups. The structure of the tarsi and palpi indicates a transitional form 

 and ally of Oopterus and Loxomerus. The emargination of the labrum approaches 

 that of Dicrochile. It seems evident, therefore, that here we have another curious 

 Antarctic genus which is utterly unlike any of the Northern Hemisphere. 



Kenodactylus capito, sp. nov. (Plate V, fig. 2.) 



Subopaque, fusco-piceous, the head and suture of elytra more or less piceo-rufous, 

 the legs and basal joint of antennae rufo-testaceous, remaining joints piceous, palpi 

 fulvescent. 



Head as broad as front of thorax, and, including the mandibles, nearly twice 

 as long as it is ; the genae swollen, so that the back part seems somewhat abruptly 

 and a good deal contracted ; the frontal depressions are broad and deep, and extend 

 almost from the front of the forehead to beyond the back of the eye ; there is no 

 distinct groove or carina alongside the eye, and only one setigerous puncture ; there 

 is, however, another behind each longitudinal depression, but no other evident sculp- 

 ture. Thorax widest near the front, its sides slightly rounded there, rather gradu- 

 ally narrowed behind ; the base subtruncate but a little oblique towards the sides, 

 so that the angles are not exactly rectangular ; the lateral margins are well developed 

 and reflexed, the channels distinct, the apex subtruncate ; it is rather broader than 

 long, nearly flat, with feeble transverse striae behind the middle and near the sides ; 

 the median groove is well marked throughout ; there are, near the middle, 2 con- 

 spicuous punctiform foveae ; there are no basal fossae ; there is 1 setae at each side 

 near the front, and another at the hind angle. Scutellum triangular. Elytra mar- 

 ginated and channelled like the thorax to within a short distance of the extremity, 

 the apical margin indistinct but bent forward near each side as a feeble carina ; on 

 each there are 3 shallow impunctate striae which are more or less effaced near the base 

 and apex, and 3 setigerous punctures on the 3rd interstice, 1 in line with the hind 

 thigh, 2 at the apex, and about 9 along the side ; their surface is almost flat and 

 minutely coriaceous ; at the middle they are nearly double the width of the thorax, 

 the shoulders, however, are curvedly narrowed. 

 ^ . Length, 2J lines ; breadth, | line. 



Campbell Island. 



Captured by Professor Chilton on the beach between high- and low- water marks. 

 Described from a single specimen ; female incog. 



Group ANISODACTYLIDAE. 



Loxomerus, Chaudoir. 

 Bod)/ apterous. Mentum transverse, strongly emarginated, with a large median 

 tooth which is rounded at the apex, lateral lobes divergent, with a minute terminal 

 tooth. Ligula nearly membranous, somewhat prominent, widened and ciliated in 

 front. Paraglossae short, partly concealed by the mentum-tooth. Palpi elongate, 

 filiform, terminal joint subcylindrical, a little obliquely truncate at the extremity. 

 Mandibles short, broad near the base, depressed, arched and rather acute at the 

 extremity, the lower margin carinate. Labrum transversal, entire. Epistome short, 



