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numbers of some of them innumerable, the genus is but poorly 

 represented in New Zealand. Down to the present time only 

 one species, C. tasmanii, White, has been published as belonging 

 to this Colony, and that species was detected at least forty-five 

 years ago ;* and, judging from its specific name, I should infer 

 that it is not endemic but is also Tasmanian, where (at Hobart 

 Town) those ships also stayed a long time during the preceding 

 winter. I have also detected C. tasmanii here in Napier, upon 

 the leaves of the " Ngaio " tree (Myoporum latum) ; but, like the 

 others, only very rarely ; it is a smaller insect, a little more 

 gibbous, and black with yellow spots. In so saying I should also 

 observe that this species, which I believe to be C. tasmanii from 

 its pretty closely agreeing with the description of it given by 

 White (and recently copied by Captain Broun in his " Manual of 

 N.Z. Coleoptera"), differs in at least one character, i.e., the two 

 spots between its eyes are white and not " yellow." 



Moreover, I am aware of another species ( C. concinna) said 

 to have been found in New Zealand, the name only being given 

 by Captain Broun ("Manual of Coleoptera," p. 645,) on the 

 authority of Mr. Pascoe ("Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.," Sept., 1875) ; 

 of which species Captain Broun also says : "I know nothing of 

 the insect by literature or otherwise." This may, however, prove 

 to be identical with this newly described one of mine. 



In conclusion, Captain Broun having mentioned Mr. Pascoe's 

 name, I may also add a few words respecting him — one of our 

 early scientific naturalist visitors. I knew Mr. Pascoe well, both 

 as schoolboys together and denizens of the same native town, 

 and, also, in later years, when he was here in New Zealand as 

 surgeon of one of H.M. ships, before the formation of the colony. 

 At that early time Mr. Pascoe made valuable collections in New 

 Zealand natural history, especially of birds and insects. From 

 him I received my first complete (MSS.) list of the avifauna of 

 New Zealand, kindly compiled by himself for me. He particularly 

 excelled in the skinning and preparing the smaller birds, an 

 art he had early acquired at Home. The bare mention of this — 

 our indigenous birds — leads me on further to observe, How very 

 different our native woods and forests are now with respect to 

 their former inhabitants, once so very numerous ! now so very 

 scarce, and of some kinds all but extinct ! 



♦"Zoology: Voyage 'Erebus' and 'Terror,' Antarctic Expedition." 

 As those ships only wintered here in our waters in 1841, and as this genus 

 is mainly to be met with in the summer ; and as I had given to the Expe- 

 dition a large collection of insects (in spirits), it is not unlikely that that 



species was among them. 



