Coleoptera.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. 93 



there is an elongate curved feeble impression, and an equally indistinct transverse 

 one near the front ; the disc is more or less irregularly and finely striated across. 

 Scutdlum short and broad, nearly smooth. Elytra oval, rather widest behind, gradu- 

 ally narrowed towards the base, the shoulders, however, are distinctly broader than 

 the base of the thorax ; lateral rims fine but distinct ; the 4 or 5 inner striae on each 

 are well marked, the outer rather feebly, 8th and 9th obsolete, the 2nd terminates 

 at the summit of the posterior declivity ; these striae when carefully examined 

 are seen to be very finely punctured ; interstices broad, nearly smooth, the 7th 

 ends at some distance from the base. Leqs elongate and slender. Tibiae sparingly 

 setose. The basal joint of anterior tarsi subtriangular, 2nd and 3rd cordate, 4th 

 moderately prolonged at inner angle, the corresponding joint of the 2 hind pairs 

 more evidently elongated at the outer angle. 



$ . Length, 1^ hues ; breadth, 2 lines. 



Port Ross. 



Mr. Hudson's unique specimen, mounted on cardboard, appeared to me at first 

 sight to be L. nehrioides, but more prolonged study revealed discrepancies, so it was 

 considered advisable to draw up such a description as would enable any one to identify 

 it. The type of L. nehrioides is quite inaccessible to students in New Zealand, and 

 very probably to entomologists in Britain also. 



Loxomerus fossulatus, sp. no v. (Plate V, fig. 4.) 



Body slightly shining, fusco-piceous, the sides of the thorax and eljrtra some- 

 what rufescent, femora piceous, tibiae and tarsi pitchy -red, palpi fulvescent. Head, 

 including the eyes, almost as broad as the front of thorax, nearly as long as it 

 is, moderately narrowed anteriorly. Labrum transverse, truncate in front, with 6 

 setigerous punctures. Epistome widely incurved, with a large setigerous puncture 

 near each side ; interocular impressions broad and very shallow, the space behind 

 the suture finely and irregularly wrinkled ; there is only one puncture, near the 

 inner and back part of each eye. Mandibles dilated but nearly straight at the sides, 

 reddish and semitransparent there, curved at extremity. Eyes finely faceted, 

 moderately prominent, subrotundate, not very distant from thorax. Antennae 

 filiform, extending beyond base of thorax, basal 4 joints glabrous, 3rd slightly longer 

 than 4th, 2nd distinctly shorter than 3rd, the 1st stout and cyUndrical, joints 5 to 11 

 pubescent, of nearly equal length, 11th elongate-oval. Thorax one-sixth broader 

 than long, its sides finely but distinctly marginated, rounded, widest near the middle, 

 a good deal sinuated and narrowed behind, posterior angles rectangular and a little 

 obtuse ; base and apex subtruncate, the anterior angles, though obtuse, are slightly 

 prominent ; its whole surface, like that of the head, densely and very minutely 

 coriaceous, median furrow distinct but not attaining the apex ; basal fossae large, 

 rather deep and elongate ; in line with each of these a disconnected shallow impression 

 extends forwards ; there are not any distinct transverse striae. Scutellum but little 

 exposed. Elytra slightly convex, oblong-oval, not much narrowed posteriorly, and 

 without any trace of sinuosity there, rather finely margined ; the shoulders rounded, 

 yet rather broader than base of thorax ; their striae rather fine, yet quite obvious, 

 apparently impunctate, less distinct near the sides ; the 2nd striae terminate at the 

 top of the posterior declivity, the 3rd and 7th interstices do not reach the base. 

 Anterior tibiae distinctly dilated at the extremity so as to cover the base of the Ist 



