THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 69. SEPTEMBER 1893. 



XXVIII. — Descriptions of new Coleoptera from New 

 Zealand. Bj Captain Thos. Broun. 



The present contribution contains descriptions of eleven new- 

 genera and seventv-four nevsr species. The numbers, such as 

 " No. 1469" for example, refer to my 'Manual of New Zealand 

 Coleoptera.' 



Group Anchomenidse. 

 Dichrocliile anthracina^ sp. n. 



Suboblong, very slightly convex, shining, black ; antennai 

 and palpi piccous, the tips of the latter paler ; tarsi rufo- 

 piceous, the anterior "with dark spots. 



Head rather more than half the width of the thorax, nar- 

 rowed behind, with exceedingly minute dense sculpture, with 

 a setigerous puncture near each eye. Labrum widely and 

 deeply emarginate, the left side more prominent than tiic 

 right. Mandihles stout, the left broader at the base and more 

 incurved at the apex than the other. Eijes moderate. An- 

 tennae slender, reaching backwards beyond the middle thighs, 

 basal three joints glabrous, third about one third longer than 

 second, but shorter than fourth. Palpi elongate, the terminal 

 joints of the labial not thicker than those of the maxillary. 

 Thorax about one third broader than long, its sides rounded, 

 rather more narrowed behind than in front; apex medially 

 truncate, the sides directed forwards, so that the anterior 

 Ann. (k Mag. N. Hist. Sen 6. Fb/. xii. l.S 



