Species of New- Zealand Coleoptera. 339 



with a few punctures, near the basal fossae, the base and apex 

 with short, distinct, longitudinal furrows. Elytra elongate, 

 oviform, as broad near the apex as at the base ; each elytron 

 with eight almost perfectly regular series of punctures, those 

 near the suture of moderate size, the sixth and seventh 

 coarser, tlie marginal punctures rather shallow, interstices 

 nearly quite smooth. 



Front and middle tih'ue only slightly angulate externally at 

 the extremity. Antemue with the basal four joints glabrous. 



Underside black, moderately nitid ; middle of prosternum 

 smooth, its flanks distinctly but not coarsely punctate, sides 

 of rneso- and metasterna rather more closely ; ventral seg- 

 ments more or less finely wrinkled and punctured, the terminal 

 at the extremity bipunctato at each side of the middle. 



Tiiere is no similar species with regular serial elytral 

 punctuation. 



S . Length 10 ; breadth 3 lines. 



Kinloch, Lake Wakatipu. 



One specimen from Mr. G. V. Hudson^ who discovered it. 



Mecodema attenuatum^ sp. n. 



Differs from M. rugicoUe as follows : — 



Larger and altogether more brilliant. Thorax larger, 

 3^ lines in length and breadth, its sides distinctly and rather 

 dee[ily crenulate, the rugaj more deeply impressed. Elytra 

 much more narrowed posteriorly, their whole surface very 

 irregularly marked with radiating aciculate impressions, the 

 lateral sculpture coarser and more foveiform. The head not 

 smooth on the middle, being finely rugose there ; labrum 

 also rugose; the eyes more prominent. 



i^/a;*A:s of prosternum transversely rugose-punctate; meso- 

 sternum medially finely rugose, laterally closely rugose- 

 punctate ; basal ventral segment punctured near each side, 

 the others finely wrinkled, the terminal much narrowed 

 towards the extremity. 



Length 13^ ; breadth 3j lines. 



Ta paw era, Nelson. 



One example from Mr. G. V. Hudson, who also sent me a 

 male of il/. rugicoUe^ found at Wakapuaka, Nelson, the type 

 of that species being a female from Taranaki and measuring 

 11 X 3^ lines. 



Diglymma tarsalis, sp. n. 



Elongate, sub})arallel, moderately convex, nitid ; fusco- 

 testaceous, the tibiae, tarsi, and autenuse rufesceut. 



