A New Genus and Six New Species of Coleoptera. By Albert E. Brookes. (Okauia, Matamata, Waikato.) The new species described in this paper are mostly forms collected by Mr. E. Fairburn during a trip to Stephen and D'Urville Islands in January of this year. The most interesting is a large weevil belonging to the genus Phaeophanus, taken on D'Urville Island. A most remarkable feature surrounding this genus is the distribution of four distinct species between Stephen (2), The Brothers, and D'Urville Islands, situated in close proximity to each other in Cook Strait. Phaeophanus rugosus Broun, the genotype, is endemic on The Brothers; P. o'connori Broun, and P. inornatus Broun, on Stephen; and P. fairburni n. sp. described herein, on D'Urville Island. None of the above four species have been found on the mainland, which is comparatively close. Powell, in a recent paper, “The Paryphantidae of New Zealand, their Hypothetical Ancestry” (Rec. Auck. Inst. Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 17–56), has stressed the hypothesis with a somewhat elaborate map, based mainly on the geological studies of Dr Cotton, and the occurrence of Wainuia urnula Pfeiffer (a genus and species of the Mollusca) in the South Island, of the existence in comparatively recent times of a land-bridge connecting the North and South Islands. In studying the members of the genus Phaeophanus from the several islands in Cook Strait, which are isolated flightless species, the writer is forced to quite opposite conclusions, and considers that the Cook Strait islands previously mentioned have been isolated from each other and the mainland for a very considerable period of time. If such is not the case it is extremely difficult to account for four distinct forms endemic on three small islands in such close proximity to each other and the mainland, none of the four species being found on any two of them. Another member of the genus occurs only on the Mokohinau Islands, situated considerably more to the north, off the Auckland coast. Phaeophanus lituratus Broun has been described from Mount Egmont, Taranaki. I have not seen this species, but a close study of it would no doubt prove it to belong to a different genus. We have a still more remarkable instance of distribution in Psorochroa granulata Broun, another flightless beetle belonging to the Elateridae, evidently of archaic origin and quite common on Stephen Island (Broun gives the habitat of his type, “The Brothers, Cook Strait.” This is apparently an error, as I am informed on good authority that it does not exist there.) but is to be met with again at the Chatham Islands, approximately 400 miles away. It is not known which is the true habitat of this peculiar species, which lives in rock crevices, but it