Genera and Species of New Zealand Coleoptera. Ill 



exactly with Catoptes, Brachyolus, or InopMceus, but partake 

 more or less the structure and appearance of all three. In 

 order to avoid confusion it will be necessary before long to 

 redescribe these genera and define their limits more accu- 

 rately; when that is accomplished the aberrant species 

 alluded to above may be referred to new but certainly very 

 intermediate genera. As I have not seen some of these 

 species as yet^ and as very few examples of some others are 

 possessed by me^ the difficult task must be allowed to stand 

 over at present. 



Inophlmus sternalis, sp. n. 



Subplanate, elongate, opaque, fusco-piceous ; densely 

 covered with minute, depressed, rotundate squamae of a pale 

 obscure reddish hue, and with series of decumbent pallid 

 setse ; legs, antennce, and tip of rostrum rufescent. 



Rostrum rather shorter than thorax, with a distinct median 

 carina. Thorax one fifth broader than it is long, a little 

 rounded and prominent laterally before the middle, base and 

 apex truncate ; along the middle of the disk there is a broad 

 impression, which is deepest behind; between this and each 

 side there are two flattened spaces, one near the front, the 

 other at the base; these cause the surface to appear uneven, 

 there is no discernible punctuation ; the sides are blackish. 

 Scutellum distinct, with ochraceous scales. Elytra broader 

 than thorax at the base, about twice as long as they are 

 broad, nearly parallel-sided for two-thirds of their length, 

 humeral angles oblique, apices a little divergent and pro- 

 longed, but not acute ; the dorsum is flat, with four series 

 of elongate punctures on each elytron; the fifth interstices 

 are gradually raised backwards and terminate abruptly in 

 horizontal nodosities at the summit of the apical declivity ; 

 two other nodosities are placed further back and nearer to 

 the suture ; the narrow hinder part bears pallid scales ; their 

 sides are vertical and have three series of punctures along 

 each. 



Leys long and moderately slender. Tarsi pilose, third 

 joint deeply lobate. Antenna finely setose ; scape gradually 

 incrassate and attaining the back of the eye ; basal two 

 joints of the funiculus equally elongate, the following four 

 decrease in length and are nearly oviform, the seventh is 

 almost obconical; club elongate-oval, apparently four-jointed. 



The ocular lobes are well developed, so that the presternum 

 seems abruptly emarginate. Corbels of hind tibise flattened, 

 but with a narrow external space bordered with cilife. 



