I N S E C T S .
1. — INSECTS OP NEW ZEALAND.
T h e following catalogue contains a list of the insects hitherto recorded as having been found in N e w Zealand
and the Auckland Islands, to which is added a description of the new species brought home by the officers of the
Expedition, and of others since obtained from Dr. Sinclair, Mr. Earl, and other persons, and are either contained in
the collection of the British Museum or in those of Capt. Pany and W. W. Saunders, Lsq., who have kindly placed
their collections at our disposal for the purpose of their being described and figured.
Family C ic in d e l id ,e .
CiCINDELA TUBEKCULATA.
Cicindela tuberculata, Fair. Si/st. Elewth. I. 238, 32
OUv. t. 3 f. 28. Dejean. spec. gen. IX. 431. Guerin. Voy.
Coquille t. \ . f . 4
Subcylindrical, obscure bronze. Elytra spotted with
green; shoulder and base of the side of elytra with a yellowish
limule, connected at the end with a spot in the
middle, forming a transverse band, which extends nearly
to the suture and is bent downwards at the end; on the
outer edge it is dilated, especially towards the upper lu-
nule; at the lower part it is but slightly attached to the
terminal lunule of elytra, which is narrowest in the middle;
the other parts of elytra are of a blackish purple, with
many minute greenish dots; an interrupted line on each
elytron near the suture of larger spots; scutellum with the
sides nearly straight.
Hab. New Zealand.
C ic in d ela D o d e i.
Cicindela Douei, Chenu. Guerin Mag. de Zool., 1840,
t. 45.
Elongated, bronzed above; labium and mandibles on
the sides yellow; thorax quadrate, somewhat flattened,
deeply impressed with two transverse bluish furrows; elytra
with anterior margin, lunules on shoulder and subapi-
cal point, yellow. Body beneath greenish blue, with
white hairs.
Hab. New Zealand.
C i c i n d e l a L a t e - c i n c t a . P I. I f . 1.
Elytra bordered all round with a widish yellow band,
which extends close to the edge; the inner edge has four
slight sinuosities and three lobes, the middle one largest,
forming a shortish band, not quite reaching to the suture.
Head, thorax and rest of elytra of a dark, bronzy brown.
Elytra much elongated.
Length 7 lines.
Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti), Mr. Earl.
C i c i n d e l a P a e e y i . P I. l . f . 2.
Obscure bronze; elytra with a slight isolated lunule on
the basal edge of a pale yellow, with many brovm dots, a widish
line on the margin next to this, from the front of which
a shaipish spot directed backwards does not nearly attain
the suture. This, and a wide, straightish spot at the end
of the elytra are pale yellow, thickly dotted with brown,
rest of elytra of a bronzy hue, very much pustuled, with
many largish, irregularly placed greenish spots, and tivo
deep velvet-like, somewhat sagittate marks near the suture;
scutellum large, with the sides rounded, antennie with the
first joint green, the other joints ferruginous, from the 2nd