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A New Genus and Three New Species of Coleoptera. By Albert E. Brookes. [Read before the Auckland Institute, 24th November, 1925; received by Editor, 28th November, 1925; issued separately, 8th February, 1927.] Suborder Adephaga. Superfamily Caraboidea. Family Carabidae. Subfamily Harpalinae. Genus Cillenum. 4332. Cillenum tillyardi. Suborder Polyphaga. Group Lamellicornia. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Family Lucanidae. Subfamily Dorcinae. Genus Lissotes. 4333. Lissotes mangonuiensis. Group Phytophaga. Superfamily Cerambycoidea. Family Cerambycidae. Genus Neocalliprason. 4334. Neocalliprason elegans. Carabidae. Cillenum Samouelle, 1819, Ent. Comp. ed. 1, p. 148. Cillenum tillyardi n. sp. Nitid, elongate, convex, body testaceous, thorax darker; head, tips of mandibles, and a narrow portion of front of thorax and basal margin picious. Head, hardly as broad as thorax, smooth, with interocular depressions; eyes large and prominent. Thorax as broad as long, sides rounded, marginate, widest just before the middle, narrowest behind, a little incurved apically, base subtruncate, with a transverse depression, disc with a distinct median line, and a faintly raised semicircular ridge just behind the apex; lateral margins with two setigerous punctures on each side, one a little in front of the middle, the other near the posterior angles. Elytra two and one-third times as long as thorax, elongate-ovate, widest at middle thighs, broadly rounded and slightly narrowed to apices, interstices flatly convex, striae shallow with feeble punctures, the third interstice with two fuscous setigerous punctures on each side. Legs, anterior tibia moderately stout, median and posterior slender, all bearing pallid hairs, and also the tarsi, tibial spurs long and slender. Holotype, male, length 4 mm., breadth, 1.4 mm. Allotype, female, length 3.9 mm., breadth 1.3 mm. In collection, Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Paratypes in author's collection.