INSECTS 



1. — INSECTS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



The following catalogue contains a list of the insects hitherto recorded as having been found in New Zealand 

 and the Auckland Islands, to which is added a description of the new species brought home by the officers of the 

 Expedition, and of others since obtained from Dr. Sinclair, Mr. Earl, and other persons, and are either contained in 

 the collection of the British Museum or in those of Capt. PaiTy and W. W. Saunders, Esq., who have kindly placed 

 their collections at our disposal for the purpose of their being described and figured. 



Family Cicindelid,^:. 



CiCINDELA TUBERCULATA. 



Cicindela tuberculata, Fahr. Sijst. Eleuth. I. 238, 32 

 Oliv. t. 3 f. 28. Dejean. spec. gen. II. 431. Gueriu. Voy. 

 Coquille t. 1. /". 4 



Subcylindrical, obscure bronze. Elytra spotted with 

 green ; shoulder and base of the side of elytra with a yel- 

 lowish lunule, connected at the end with a spot in the 

 middle, forming a transverse band, which extends nearly 

 to the suture and is bent downwards at the end ; on the 

 outer edge it is dilated, especially towards the upper lu- 

 nule ; at the lower part it is but slightly attached to the 

 terminal lunule of elytra, which is narrowest in the middle ; 

 the other parts of elytra are of a blackish pui-ple, with 

 many minute greenish dots ; an interrupted line on each 

 elytron near the suture of larger spots ; scutellum with the 

 sides nearly straight. 



Hab. New Zedand. 



Cicindela Douei. 



Cicindela Douei, Chenu. Guerin Mag. de ZooL, 1840, 

 t. 4.5. 



Elongated, bronzed above; labium and mandibles on 

 the sides yellow ; thorax quadrate, somewhat flattened, 

 deeply impressed with two transverse bluish furrows ; ely- 



tra with anterior margin, lunules on shoulder and subapi- 

 cal point, yellow. Body beneath greenish blue, with 

 white hairs. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Cicindela Late-cincta. PI. 1/. 1. 



Elytra bordered all round with a widish yellow band, 

 which extends close to the edge ; the inner edge has four 

 slight sinuosities and three lobes, the middle one largest, 

 forming a shortish band, not quite reaching to the suture. 

 Head, thorax and rest of elytra of a dark, bronzy brown. 

 Elytra much elongated. 



Length 7 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti), Mr. Earl. 



Cicindela Parryi. PI. 1./. 2. 

 Obscure bronze ; elytra with a slight isolated lunule on 

 the basal edge of a pale yellow, with many brown dots, a wid- 

 ish line on the margin next to this, from the front of which 

 a shaipish spot directed backwards does not nearly attain 

 the suture. This, and a wide, straightish spot at the end 

 of the elytra are pale yellow, thickly dotted with brown, 

 rest of elytra of a bronzy hue, very much pustuled, with 

 many largish, irregularly placed gieenish spots, and two 

 deep velvet-like, somewhat sagittate marks near the suture ; 

 scutellum large, with the sides rounded, antennae with the 

 first joint green, the other joints ferruginous, fi:om the 2nd 



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