272 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. XXVIII. — On a New Species of Odontria. 

 By J. H. Lewis, F.E.S. 



Communicated by W. W. Smith, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd September, 



1902.] 



Plate XXXI. 



Odontria epomeas, u. s. 



Opaca, pubescens, picea, thoracis marginibus humerisque 

 elytrorum testaceosignatis, capite grosse subseriatim punctato. 

 Long. 13 mm. ; lat. 6-7 mm. 2 . 



Suboblong, opaque, velvety, clothed above with short 

 yellow hairs ; head, thorax, and epipleurae with long erect 

 setas ; thorax pitchy-brown, with the sides and a central 

 streak testaceous ; elytra pitchy-brown, with numerous small 

 irregular yellow marks, the shoulders each with a short tes- 

 taceous vitta. Trophi and limbs reddish-yellow. Head in 

 front shining pitchy-brown, behind yellow. 



Clypeus coarsely and closely punctured, obtusely rounded, 

 and with the margin regularly elevated. Head with coarse 

 punctures arranged in irregular rows, with smooth interspaces. 

 Thorax with front angles acute. Scutellum testaceous, punc- 

 tate. Elytra with sculpture as in O. occipitalis. Abdomen 

 with fine punctures and longitudinal scratch-like sculpture. 



Antennae with 5th joint simple, club short, 3-articulate. 



Eakaia Gorges. Coll., Miss Jones. 



This species is closely allied to Odontria occipitalis, Broun, 

 from which it may be distinguished by the yellow central 

 vitta of the thorax and the humeral streaks. The coloration 

 of the head is different, and probably also the sculpture, the 

 punctation in 0. epomeas extending back as far as in any 

 species with which I am acquainted. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXI. 



Odontria epomeas, n.s. 



Fig. 1. Head; x 6. 

 Fig. 2. Fore tibia ; x 10. 

 Fig. 3. Antenna ; x 30. 



