considerably punctured, blackish, sides margined with
grayish scales ; elytra with seven longitudinal keels, regularly
punctured down the edge, the punctures reddish
brown, the edge between green, the interstices between the
rows with brownish gray scales, a few spots and a transverse
band or two of a deepish brown colour ; legs with
the tibiæ ferruginous.
Length, 5 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Wellington), Capt. Parry.
Family B o s tk ich id .e .
A p a t e m in o t u s .
Apate minutus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 54, 4.
Hab. New Zealand, Banks’ cabinet.
P l a t ïpü s a p ica l is.
Deep brown ; the basal joint of antennæ, the metathorax
and femora yellow ; head sloping, a slight keel on the vertex
in the middle ; thorax very smooth, shining, the side
with a depression for the fore legs, with a notch hardly visible
from above ; elytra rather deeply channelled, sloping
behind, with a strong, tooth-like projection on each near
the end, closer to the margin than the suture ; anterior
tibiæ with oblique grooves, which terminate on the outside
in teeth.
Length, 2 f lines.
Hab. New Zealand (in Kaudi wood).
L y CTUS DEPEESSIÜSCÜLUS.
Deep blackiish brown ; antennæ much shorter than the
thorax ; thorax with a squareish depression in the middle,
a distinct margin on the sides, coarsely punctured above ;
elytra with longitudinal lines of longish punctures.
Length, nearly 2 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson).
Family CüCüJIDÆ.
D endeophag ds b e ev ic o e n is .
Pitchy brown, varying in shade in different specimens ;
antennæ when stretched back reaching only to beyond the
base of tlie second pair of legs, first joint not twice the
length of the third joint ; head somewhat elongated, finely
punctured ; thorax very slightly depressed, rather widest
in front, a longitudinal impression on the disk, with a very
slight keel down the middle, anterior angle with two or
three dénticulations, behind it is narrowest ; elytra slightly
depressed, with the side margins somewhat hairy, the elytra
longitudinally lineated, the lines shallow aud punctured
; femora thickish and somewliat flattened.
Length, 2 j to 3 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Bay of Islands, Port Nicholson).
D endrophagos su tu ea l is.
Testaceous ; the elytra paler, a darkish brown line on
each suture extending to beyond the middle, where it forms
a transverse, widish brown band cut off before the margin ;
head with two longitudinal, impressed lines, one close to
each eye ; thorax with the sides straight and two or three
small hairs on the edge, both the head and thorax very
finely punctured ; elytra with the shoulders rounded, the
upper surface with shortish subfen-uginous liairs and several
punctured lines ; the legs moderate.
Length, 2J lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson).
Family M y o e to ph a g idæ .
L a t e id iu s antipodum .
Deep, shining black ; club of antennæ subferruginous ;
sides of thorax slightly sinuated ; elytra somewhat widened
about the middle, suture aud edge of elytra raised, each
elytron with two slightly raised keels, the two inner with
an elevation beyond the middle, and two transverse widish
depressions before the middle.
Length, 1 line.
Hab. New Zealand, Capt. Parry.
This species is very closely allied to Latridius nodifer,
described by Mr. Westwood in a note at p. 155 of his
Mod.^Class. of Insects, vol. 1, and figured at p. 152, fig.
Family E n g idæ .
E ngis po l itu s .
Engis politus, Hope, MSS.
Deep, smooth black ; antennæ and legs ferruginous ;
head and thorax finely punctured ; three terminal joints of
antennæ dilated and flattened.
Length,
Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Parry.
B itoma insulakis.
Head and thorax deep brown ; thorax on each side with
two parallel keels and two curved, raised lines in the middle
behind; each elytron with four longitudinal ridges
and two rows of largish punctures between each, elytra
palish brown, with a large, dark brown, triangular mark on
the base as wide as the elytra, and a few spots of different
sizes.
Length, 1 | line.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Capt. Parry.
Family P e io n id æ .
P eiono plus, White.
Prionoplus, White, Dieffenbach's New Zealand, II. 276.
Face between the antennæ hollowed out ; mandibles
shortish, strong, angulated ; trophi prominent, somewhat
clubbed at the end ; eyes large, separated both above and
beneath by a rather narrow division ; antennæ with the
first joint strong, short and thickest at the end, second
very small and somewhat cup-shaped, next eight with a
spine at the end, third joint the longest, the others gradually
shorter, terminal joint bluntish at the end, last joints
somewhat flattened ; thorax short, transverse, not nearly
so wide as the elytra, sides with a strongish spine about
the middle, spine angulated at the base ; sides of scutellum
nearly parallel, abruptly rounded at the end, a smoothish
ridge down the middle ; elytra longish, rounded at the
end and narrowest there, margin slightly turned up ; femora
with two spines at the end, tibia: with three spines, two
shorter on the inside at the end and a longer one on the
outside.
PlilONOPLUS RETICULARIS.
Prionoplus reticularis. While, I. c. Westwood, Arc. Ent.
II. 25, I. 56,/. 1.
Pitchy brown, margins of abdominal segments beneath
paler ; elytra margined and of a ligliter colour, with three
longitudinal veins springing from the base and connected
by yellowish nervures, forming irregular reticulations, not
coiTesponding on each elytron, the elytra have a short
spine at the end close to the suture ; the head, thorax and
general surface of the elytra in-egularly punctured and ver-
miculated, thorax covered with many short, wool-like
hairs, which give it a brownish hue, a longer tuft on each
side behind.
Length, 1 4 | to 19 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson, &c.).
Family C eeam by cid .e .
C e EAMBYX ( P h LYCT^NODES ?) STKIGIPENNIS.
Cerambyx (Pblyctaenodes ?) strigipennis, Westw. Arc.
Ent. II. 27, t. 56,/. 6.
Head broad in front before the eyes, with the face rather
oblique and truncated, parts of the mouth small, mandibles
short, black at the tip ; palpi short, maxillary scarcely
larger than the labial ; antenna: shorter than the body,
first joint clavate, third and several following of nearly
equal length, base of the joints black ; head with a dark
central line, space behind the eyes dark-coloured ; thorax
constricted near the front margin and dilated on each side
into a short, thick, conical spine; disk with four elevated tubercles,
the two front placed closer together than the other
two ; middle of thorax with a dark line ; elytra long, nearly
parallel witli the suture, five longitudinal streaks on each
of pitchy brown, first not extending to the base, second
and fourth united near the tip, third insulated by them,
fourth much abbreviated at the base, fifth slender and snb-
marginal ; feet slender and simple ; femora very slightly
clavate.
Length, 11 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mus. Parry.
This seems to be nearly related in generic character
with Phlyctasnodes of Newman.
O p h i iy o p s , White.
Head scarcely bent down at the end, considerably contracted
behind the eyes ; antennie much longer than the
body, the joints from the fifth to the eleventh nearly equal
in length and longer than any that precede them; eyes lunated,
upper and middle parts narrow and nearly equal in
width, lower part larger, inside edged with close, short,
fine hairs ; thorax as long as wide, sides smooth, nearly
parallel ; elytra long, narrow, scarcely wider than the thorax,
soft, blunt at the end ; legs longish, femora gradually
thickened to the end.
A new genus, coming near Tricheops and Uracanthus.
O ph ry o p s pa ll id u s . p i. 4 , / . 8.
Pale yellowish ; three basal joints of antenna: darker ;
crown of head with many punctures ; thorax with many
scattered punctures above, two elongated, bent spaces, one
on each upper margin, more densely punctured than the
other ; elytra with four longitudinal yellow veins, the
spaces between thickly punctured with brown, tips of elytra
ciliated.
Length, 9J lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mr. Earl
E b u e id a , White.
Antennæ longer than the body, slightly hairy without
spines, first joint slightly bent and clubbed, last joints ol
palpi truncated at the end; eyes lunated, lower lobe largest,
slightly sinuated just at the base of mandibles ; thorax
rather longer than broad, as wide in front as behind, a
small spine on the side margin behind, the sides somewhat
curved, two round, slightly raised polished tubercles on the
back in front, placed transversely ; elytra with the sides
parallel, the end bluntish and without spine ; legs longish,
femora gradually clavate, simple at the end.
This genus comes near Eburia and Phoracantha, not far
from Didymocantha, Newman, Ann. Nat. Hist. V. 20.
E bu e id a su b l in ea ta .
Pale testaceous; head and thorax darker; space between
the antennæ and eye covered with yellowish hairs ; head
between and behind the antennæ sparsely punctured, with
a few scattered hairs, largish space on crown of head free
from hairs ; thorax somewhat roughish on the side, punctured
rather coarsely except on two tubercles and narrow-
ish line down the middle, which are smooth, several scattered,
yellowish hairs, thickest on front of the tubercles
and on a line behind them, triangular, covered with
yellowish hairs ; elytra thickly and rather coarsely punctured,
suture and sides blackish brown, as are two streaks
on elytra, outer largest and running from before the middle
to near the end, the basal half very obscure, the inner before
the middle and very short ; femora somewhat ferruginous
; tibiæ and tarsi rather hairy.
Length, 6^ lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson).
P horacantha do rsalis .
Phoracantha dorsalis, Newm. Ann, Nat. Hist. \ . p. 19.
Stenochorus dorsalis, Macleay, King's Survey, II. 4 5 1 .
Hab. New Zealand, Dr. Sinclair. R.N.
B ea o h y t eia latebeosa, Var. pallida, PI. i,J iy . 4.
Brachytria latebrosa, Newm. Entomol. p. 95.
In sculpture and form the New Zealand specimen agrees
with the two individuals from Kangaroo Island, described