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NEW ZEALAND CARABID&. 215 
ON THE NEW ZEALAND CARABIDA.* 
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BY CAPT T.BROUN, MESS, 
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[With this paper Part III. of the ‘‘ List of the New Zealand Coleoptera’ is 
commenced, Parts I. and If. have already been issued by the Colonial Museum 
Department. The numbers on the margin are in continuation of those in Part II. 
When insects are referred to by numbers, these numbers correspond with those in 
Parts I. or IT.] 
CNEMACANTHID&. 
1322. Mecodema rugicolle, sp. nov.—Lody moderately glossy, 
brownish-black, legs and antenne rufo-piceous ; elongate, sub- 
parallel. Head nearly smooth on the middle, longitudinally 
rugose in front, irregularly wrinkled laterally, its posterior portion 
covered with transversal linear impressions and punctures ; 
labrum broadly rounded, bearing a row of course punctures and 
ferruginous bristles. Pvothorax sub-depressed, its length and 
breadth about equal, widely rounded laterally, abruptly narrowed 
behind, its sides almost crenate; the surface has a distinct 
median groove not attaining the apex, many transversal furrows 
deepest near the sides, some abbreviated longitudinal strie in 
front, and a row of obvious punctures, with elongated ferruginous 
bristles proceeding from them, along the rims; the basal fovez 
are well defined, and placed close to the edges of the contracted 
part. lytra cylindrical, slightly convex, each with three rows 
of distant punctures on the disc, the sides and apices more 
coarsely and irregularly punctured ; their surface exhibits a few 
aciculate impressions but no distinct striae. Underside piceous ; 
flanks of the #vosternum punctate, those of the mesosternum 
similarly, but more densely impressed ; abdomen with distant 
shallow punctures near the sides; the “ead transversely 
regulose. 
Differs from all the other species of the genus having crenu- 
lated thoracic margins by the sculpture of the head and thorax, 
&c. 
Length, 11 ; breadth, 3% lines. Described from a mutilated 
specimen found by Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager near Taranaki. 
1323. Metaglymma punctifer, n.sp.—Elongate, slightly convex, 
| medially narrowed, glossy black, scarcely bronzed, tarsi and 
antennz pitchy-black, tips of the palpi pale in colour. Head 
moderate, longitudinally bi-impressed in front, a little constricted 
_ behind, and punctured in line with the back part of the eyes; 
* Read before the Auckland Institute, June 13, 1881. 
