50 Capt. T. Broun on new 



narrowed backwards. Mondibles bifid at extremity. Thorax 

 strongly transverse, gradually narrowed towards the acute 

 anterior angles^ with a sinuation near each eye, so that the 

 middle of the apex seems rounded, the punctuation concealed 

 and shallow. Scutellum triangular. Elytra as wide as 

 tliorax at the base, their sides nearly parallel, but much 

 curvedly narrowed posteriorly ; their striae are sharply im- 

 pressed and impunctate, the interstices are plane and finely 

 coriaceous. 



Femora grooved underneath ; tibi(B straight inwardly, 

 rather slender towards the knees, with about six setigtrous 

 denticles along the outside, the anterior with a broad shallow 

 impression along the front for the accommodation of the tarsi, 

 the other pairs deeply grooved along the posterior face so 

 that the tarsi, in repose, are almost hidden. Tarsi stout 

 and nearly nude, the terminal joint nearly as long as the 

 preceding four taken together. 



Antennce sparingly hispid, 2nd joint nearly as long and 

 stout as the exposed part of the 1st; 8rd anrl 4th equal, 

 about twice as long as broad ; 5th and 6th longer tiian 

 broad, but shorter than the preceding ; 7th short, 8th and 

 9th transverse, lUth distinctly bioader than 9th; 11th large, 

 oblong, closely adapted to the 10th, so these two apparently 

 form the oblong club. 



Underside opaque, sparsely studded with suberect, short, 

 coarse grey setse. Abdomen, like the breast, with coarse 

 shallow punctures ; the three intermediate segments short, 

 with strongly curved sutures ; the terminal moderately long 

 and narrow^, the visible central portion of the basal one large 

 and subtriangular. 



Rather smaller and more convex than Nos. 432 and 2512, 

 and recognizable by the dense squamosity. The last species 

 (2512) may be separated at once by the quite acuminate 

 terminal joints of the maxillary palpi. 



Length If, breadth 1 line. 



Ophir, Otago. Two specimens found by Mr. Lewis. The 

 measurements are from a " set out " example, the other 

 retracted one is smaller. 



Group Lucanidae. 



Mitophyllus curvidens, sp. n. 



Oblovg, moderately convex, slightly nitid, variegate, 

 mostly nigrescent, occasionally tinged with violaceous, the 

 sides of thorax and an elongate space on the elytra ferru- 

 ginous; irregularly clothed with elongate, depressed, pallid 



