to the 4th paler; head narrowish; thorax with the two lobes 

 forming upper part uot so distinct as in C. tuberculata, 

 tibiae and tarsi paler than in C. tuberculata; the elytra 

 also are wider and less long than in that species. 



Length, 5 to b^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Capt. Parry. Mus. 

 Brit., from Mr. Earl's collection. 



Family Carabid^e. 

 Cymindis dieffenbachii. 



Cymindis Dieffenbachii, White. Dieff. Neiv Zeal. II. 

 273. 



C. australis, Honihr. and Jacq., Voy.au Pole Sud.t. 1. 

 /7. 



Of a brownish black, with the antennae and legs tawny ; 

 the C. australis, Dej. Spec. Gen, II. 449, is a very different 

 insect, distinguished from this by its size, colour and form ; 

 it is a native of Port Jackson. 



Hab., New Zealand (Otago), Hombron and Jacquinot. 



Lebia binotata. 



Lebia binotata, Hombron and Jacq., Voy. an Pole Sud. 

 t. \.f. 8. 



Head and elytra of a deep brown, each of the latter with 

 a longish testaceous spot, widest in the middle ; thorax, 

 antennae and legs rufo-testaceous ; apes of elytra very 

 slightly tinged with testaceous ; elytra have several slight- 

 ly raised lines. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand, (Port Nicholson and Waikouaiti). 



Demetrida, White. 



Head as wide as thorax, narrowed behind the eyes, 

 which are very prominent ; last joint of the paljii oval and 

 pointed ; thorax longer than wide, narrower than elytra, 

 straight in front, gradually rounded and narrowed at the 

 end ; side margined, a deep groove down the middle ; ely- 

 tra narrow at base, gradually wider towards the end, flat- 

 tened above ; abdomen considerably longer than elytra ; 

 tarsi with the claws small and serrated on the edge ; first 

 three joints triangular, fourth joint strongly bilobed. 



Demetrias (Demetrida) lineella, PI. I.y!3. 



Head smooth, but somewhat rugose in front of eyes, 

 with the antennae and cibarial organs testaceous, behind 

 the eyes brownish ; thorax testaceous, sides of it above 

 with a brownish band and finely striated across ; thoracic 

 groove in front divided into three ; elytra testaceous, with 

 nine longitudinal punctato-striated lines, some of them 

 connected at base and tip ; a longish brown line near the 

 outer margin of each elytron ; one or two spots near the 

 end of two or three of the inner striae ; legs and under side 

 testaceous. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mus. Parry. 



Demetrida nasuta. 



Head produced in fi-ont, with the antennae rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; thorax rufo-fuscous ; groove down the middle, sim- 

 ple in front, the upper ]3art with many delicate transverse 

 .striae ; elytra rather deeply striated, deep fuscous ; longish 

 spot on each shoulder ; narrow side margin of each ely- 

 tron, and oblique spot at the tip of each serrated above, 

 of a yellowish colour ; under side deep brown ; legs yel- 

 lowish. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand. Mus. Parry. 



Dromius fossulatus. 



Dromius fossulatus, Homhr. and Jacq., Voy. Pole Sud. 

 t. 3/. 16. 



Hab., New Zealand (Akaroa). 



AcTENONYX. White. 



Head nearly as wide as the thorax, with large, but not 

 very prominent eyes ; antennae longish, with oblong joints ; 

 thorax nearly as wide as long, straightish in front, and 

 behind, where it is slightly narrowed ; elytra very wide 

 and depressed, obliquely truncated at the end ; tarsi with 

 claws slender and not serrated ; a genus in form approach- 

 in Calleida. 



ACTENONYX BeMBIDIOIDES. 



Entirely bronzed ; head and thorax greenish ; elytra 

 with longitudinal shallow strife ; some of striae near suture 

 with two or three punctures ; sides of head striated, in the 

 middle quite smooth ; two or three short rufescent hairs 

 above the eyes ; thorax finely striated on the sides of the 

 groove. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand. 



CoLPODES SDBMETALLICnS. 



Bronzy brown ; thorax with the side margins yel- 

 lowish ; the side margins of elytra very slightly yellow ; 

 Head in front, with the sides with two deepish longitudi- 

 nal impressions ; the edge slightly recurved, scarcely 

 grooved in the middle ; elytra with straight grooves not 

 punctured ; the 2nd groove (fi'om the suture), near the end 

 with a transverse, very short impressed hue on the outside ; 

 near the margin a row of impressed points, closest near 

 the end ; an impressed point near the end of 7lh stria ; 

 legs yellowish ; antennae brownish ; under side of abdomen 

 greenish. 



Length 4f lines. 



Hab., New Zealand. 



Pristonychus castaneus. 



Pristonyclius castaneus, Honihr. and Jticq. Joy. an Pole 

 Slid. t.2./. I. 



Hab., Auckland Islands. 



