Broun. — The Coleopteia of the Kermadec Islands. 303 



Head finely punctate, hardly as wide as front of thorax. Eyes large, 

 obliquely oval. Thorax widest at the base, which is oblique towards the 

 sides, posterior angles nearly rectangular ; its sides almost straight, only 

 shghtly narrowed anteriorly, their margins fine, but in front very distinctly 

 incrassate and oblique ; it is moderately finely, distinctly, but not closely 

 punctured. Scutellum smooth. Elytra oblong-oval, finely margined, the 

 base as wide as that of the thorax, the shoulders smooth, sometimes very 

 slightly raised ; they are moderately striate-pvuictate, the striaB, however, 

 are distinct at the sides only, the sutural series of punctures extend 

 obliquely from the base to the middle, the posterior sculpture is irregular, 

 the apices are separately broadly rounded or subtruncate, so that the ter- 

 minal abdominal segment is usually exposed. 



Underside shining, bronzed. Abdomen rather elongate, very convex 

 transversely, rufo-fuscous, finely and sparingly punctate and pubescent ; 

 basal segment largest, somewhat hastate, and medially depressed, between 

 the coxae ; 2-4 equal, 5th moderately elongate, truncate at apex, the supple- 

 mentary conical and deeply concave. Prosternum short, the intercoxal 

 process moderately broad and punctate. Mesosternum carinate and medi- 

 ally incurved in front. Metasternum shorter than the basal segment, 

 convex, triangularly impressed behind, its frontal process triangular and 

 with carinate margins between the coxae. 



Posterior femora strongly developed, very broad and subtruncate at the 

 base but tapering backwards. .Tibiae, posterior, widely incurved, narrowed 

 and broadly grooved near the extremity, this part minutely denticulate 

 externally. Tarsi, the hind pair as long as the tibiae, attached to these 

 at some distance from the apex ; their basal joint elongate, longer than the 

 following three taken together, 3rd bilobed, claws simple. 



Antennae inserted at the front and inner margins of the eyes, reaching 

 backwards to the middle of the wing-cases, 10-articulate ; basal joint cur- 

 vate, not much longer than either of the following two, 4—9 rather thicker 

 than the preceding one, the 10th with a small apical articulation. 



The distinguishing features of the genus, the only one in Lacordaire's 

 group Psilliodites, are the 10-jointed antennae, and peculiar tibiae and tarsi, 

 which I have described above. The species are numerous and widespread. 

 None in my collection, from Europe and America, resemble this. The 

 supplementary terminal articulation of the antennae will serve as a good 

 diiTerentiating character. 



Length, H lines ; breadth, | line, 



Sunday Island. 



Found by Mr. W. L. Wallace on the common Solanum. 



Group Carpophilid^. 



Carpophilus vittiger, Matt. 



Elongate, subdepressed, the whole derm densely and minutely sculp- 

 tured so as to appear subopaque, clothed with decumbent yellowish hairs ; 

 head and thorax fuscous, the front and back of the former, the sides and 

 apex of the latter, somewhat rufescent ; elytra obscure fusco-testaceous, 

 the suture, apical portion, and an irregular discoidal area on each fuscous, 

 the scutellum and the 2 uncovered abdominal segments also more or less 

 infuscate ; legs and antennae fusco-rufous, the club darker. 



Head nearly as broad as front of thorax, contracted behind the large, 

 prominent, sulDrotundate eyes, its surface moderately finely and closely 



