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broad. Elytra slightly broader than thorax at The base, nearly thrice its 

 length, a little wider just before the middle than elsewhere, considerably 

 narrowed posteriorly, with well- developed margins; each elytron lias 

 eight series of moderate punctures, two of these are quite lateral, the 

 three nearest the suture, behind the middle, are substriate ; the inter- 

 stices are finely punctured. 



Antennae scarcely as long as the head and thorax, joints 7-11 a little 

 broader and more distinctly pubescent than the others, the exposed por- 

 tion of the basal joint is much stouter than the 2nd but hardly at all 

 longer, the next is longer than the 4th, the terminal elongate-oval. 



In ('. chrysomeloides the elytra! punctures are less numerous and 

 quite foveiform. C. genialis (2059) more nearly resembles this species, 

 in which, however, the anterior angles of the thorax are more broadly 

 rounded and the sides almost evenly curved, the elytra! punctures are 

 nowhere coarse, and in 2059 the 4th antennal joint is almost as long as 

 the 3rd. The vestiture of the front tarsi is rather dense and nearly 

 grey- 



Length, 8 mm. ; breadth, 3§ mm. 



Advance Peak, Otago. One found by Mr. F. S. Oliver, and sent to 

 me by Professor Chilton. The pygidium is unnaturally distended and 

 uncovered, owing to saturation with alcohol. 



Group Anthicidae. 

 3256. Cotes insignis sp. nov. Cotes Sharp, Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 410. 



Elongate, subdepressed, clothed with slender fulvescent hairs, head 

 and thorax shining, dark rufous; elytra, at the base, also rufous, of a 

 pale chestnut-red across the middle, someAvhat nigrescent behind, but 

 light red at the apex; the legs, antennae, and palpi rufescent, tarsi 

 yellowish. 



Head broader than the thorax, the vertex smooth, with a few in- 

 distinct punctures near the eyes. Thorax quite equalling in length the 

 width of its basal portion, deeply constricted behind the middle, in 

 front of the contraction it is subglobose ; it exhibits no definite sculp- 

 ture. Scutellum triangular. Elytra not double the breadth of the 

 thorax, but more than thrice its length; rather finely yet quite percep- 

 tibly, but not perfectly seriately, punctured from the base to the hind 

 femora, the posterior sculpture obsolete ; there is a slight obtuse eleva- 

 tion on each at the base, and the pale central portion is very slightly 

 depressed; the pygidium is uncovered, and nearly testaceous. 



Eyes large, prominent, and distinctly faceted. Antennae stout, dis- 

 tinctly pubescent, reaching backwards to the middle thighs, their 2nd 

 joint nearly as long as the 1st and more than half the length of the 

 3rd, the 11th scarcely any longer than the penultimate. 



C. rufa only, from Mokohinau Island, resembles this species; it is 

 larger, but in 2072 the punetation of the wing-cases is much more dis- 

 tinct, and, before the middle, a broad area is covered with fine golden 

 pubescence. 



Length, 5 1 mm. ; breadth, If mm. 



Kaitoke, near Wellington. My specimen is another of Mr. A. 

 O'Connor's novelties. In his specimen tine white hairs almost form a 

 fringe across the dark part of the elytra. 



