Genera and Species of New Zealand Coleoptera. 41) 



Described from one mounted male, whicli was found 

 under a stone by Mr. J, H. Lewis and forwarded a.i 

 No. 5877. 



Euplectus sulcicepSf sp. n. 



Elongate, shining, pale castaneo-rufous, sparingly clothed 

 with slender depressed grey hairs ; legs and antennae 

 fulvescent. 



Head nearly as broad as the thorax, subtrigonal ; at each 

 side, behind the eye, there is a fovea which is prolonged 

 forwards as a broad groove. AntentKe short and stout, 

 2nd joint nearly as large as the exposed portion of the 

 1st, joints 3-7 small and differing but little from one 

 anotlier, 7th and 8tb transverse, 9th evidently larger than 

 the 7th, 10th twice the size of the 7tb and distinctly broader 

 than the 8th, 11th large, conical, and acuminate. Thorax 

 oviform, with a fovea at each side united to its fellow by a 

 transverse linear impression near the base, close to which 

 there is a smaller central fovea; there is also a sli<jht 

 longitudinal impression on the disk. Elytra subquadrate, 

 shoulders narrowed, with a distinct sutural stria and humeral 

 impression, which is sometimes divided, on each. Hind 

 body longer than the elytra, its fii'^t exposed segment 

 covered with exceedingly minute scales, the following three 

 larger, nearly equal and margined, 4th and 5th deflexed. 

 Legs simple. 



Congeneric with the preceding species, but differing there- 

 from in the form of the head and other details. 



Length f, breadth nearly \ line. 



Thompson's Gorge, Otago. 



A single specimen. No. 5910, mounted on cardboard. 

 Also found by Mr. Lewis. 



Group Byrrhidae. 

 Curimus vestitus, sp. n. 



Convex, oviform, slightly nitid, fusco-pieeous, legs reddish, 

 antennae and palpi piceous ; densely covered with Hat, small, 

 yellowish-grey and white scales ; these last predominate near 

 the hind angles of the thorax, and form irregular spots near 

 the sides of the elytra behind the middle ; there are also 

 many erect grey setse on the sides of the body, on the legs, 

 and on the forehead. 



Head suboblong, rather flat, not squamose in front, ob^ 

 tusely rounded there. Labrum prominent. Eyes quite 

 lateral and longitudinal, not at all conspicuous, much 



Ann. ik May. N. Hist. Str. 7. Vol. xiv. 4 



