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prominent ; base widely rounded, with, rounded angles ; the sides slightly 

 curved and narrowed anteriorly, their margins more distinct behind than 

 in front ; its surface closely and finely punctured, and with a large yellowish 

 spot at each anterior angle. Elytra broader and much longer than the 

 thorax, with rounded shoulders, lateral margins distinct, they are finely 

 and closely pmictate ; at the middle of the base there is a large spot which 

 is divided by the suture, there is a smaller one about as distant from each 

 side as from the base, across the middle there are 4, and there are 4 others 

 behind, all of which are black. 



Legs with fine grey hairs. Tarsi apparently tri-articulate, the small 

 true 4th joint, however, is visible within the excavation of the 2nd, which 

 is quite the length of the basal one, the terminal is as long as the preceding 

 two combined ; claws thickened at the base. 



Antennae rather short and slender, ll-jointecl, the basal 2 are thick, 

 3rd and 4th equal, moderately elongate, 5 to 8 decrease in length ; the 

 joints of the club gradually expanded, the terminal one broad and obtuse 

 at the apex. 



Underside black. 



Length, 2;^ lines ; breadth, 1^ line. 



This valuable European ladybird is sometimes abundant in New Zealand. 

 Two specimens were brought by Mr. Wallace from Macauley Island ; in 

 both the 4 median spots are transformed into 2. None were found on 

 Sunday Island. 



Art. XXXYII. — Additions to the Coleopterous Fauna of the Chatham 



Islands. 



By Major T. Broun, F.E.S. 



{Read before the Auckland Institute, 22nd November, 1909.] 



List. Groups. 



42. Leperina shandi, Broun . . . . . . Trogositid^. 



43. Lissotes dispar, Broun . . . . . . Lucaxid^. 



44. Aldonus misturatus, Broun . . . . . . Cryptorhynchid^. 



45. ,, lineifer, Broim . . . . , . „ 



To these descriptions, owing to the kindness of Mr. Charles 0. Water- 

 house, of the British Museum, that of Lissotes capito, DeyroUe, has been 

 added. This could not be obtained in New Zealand. 



In my previous paper* all the then known Coleoptera are recorded, and 

 the species numbered consecutively for convenience of reference, so that in 

 correspondence the number only of each species need be quoted instead 

 of the whole name. This convenient system is continued in the present list. 



We are indebted to a lady. Miss S. D. Shand, of Te Whakuru, for the col- 

 lection of interesting beetles enumerated above, and it is hoped she may 

 continue adding to our knowledge of such insects, of which about a twentieth 

 part only have been brought to light. 



* Tran.s. N.Z. Inst., vol. xli. 1908, p. 145. 



