seventh striae ; eighth and ninth are not distinct, and fur- 

 nished with large, deep points, which end at the outer 

 border ; beneath smooth ; legs black, strong, spiny. 



Length, 10 lines. 



New Zealand. Mus. Brit. Pany. 



FeRONIA (PlATYSMA ?) SDB^NEA. 



Feronia (Platysma?) suhadxiea., Guerin, Rev.Zool. Cuv. 

 1841. 122. 



Slightly bronzed black above, deep black beneath ; 

 body elongated, nearly parallel ; head smooth, with two 

 short, slight impressions in front ; thorax nearly as long as 

 wide, somewhat cordate, smooth, margined, with a longitu- 

 dinal median groove, slightly widened behind, and not 

 reaching the hind margin, or rather wide fossa near the 

 hind angles ; scutellum triangulai-, somewhat wider than 

 long, with four or five longitudinal grooves at the base ; 

 elytra wider than the thorax behind ; nearly twice as long 

 as wide ; rather strongly sinuated behind, the side slightly 

 rounded ; each has eight striae of large elongated points, 

 connected, and fonning short grooves in different parts ; 

 the spaces between slightly raised ; the spaces between 

 the second and third, fourth and fifth, sixth and seventh 

 striae are wider and more raised ; the points forming the 

 eighth stria are much larger and more distant ; legs are 

 black and strong. 



Hab., New Zealand. 



Feronia (Platysma) capito. 



Head nearly as wide as the thorax, with two rather long, 

 deep impressed lines on front between antennae, with the 

 joints from the fourth to the eleventh hairy ; thorax with a 

 very distinct, transverse, impressed line in fi-ont, and at 

 the end of the middle longitudinal thoracic line ; head and 

 thorax with a greenish hue, strongest on the margins and 

 posterior angles of thorax ; elytra with a very few scatter- 

 ed, longish hairs ; elytra with a greenish hue, marked simi- 

 larly to F. Australasiae ; the sides of elytra somewhat 

 angiilated instead of being flat as in that species. 



Length, ^ to 9^ lines. 



Hab., New Zealand, — Colenso Esq. 



A species allied to F. Australasiae, but distinguished 

 readily by the size of its head, narrower thorax, colour and 

 hairs on elytra ; the insect also is somewhat smaller ; both 

 of these come near the genus Omalosoma of Hope. 



Feronia (Platysma) politissima. 



Very deep black ; head with an H-shaped impres- 

 sion in front : thorax with two deep, somewhat curved 

 fossffi behind, one on each side ; elytra with very deep, 

 longitudinal punctured striae, the fifth and sixth united at 

 the end ; side with a row of catenulate punctures. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mr. Earl. 



Feronia (Pterostichds) vagepuncta. 

 Deep black ; head with two deep, impressed lines 

 in front ; thorax with a longitudinal line down middle, 

 ending both before and behind in a deepish fossa ; behind 



on each side a deep fossa connected with the hind margin; 

 elytra with longitudinal strise marked with somewhat 

 intennpted, longish impressions. 



Length, 7 to 8 lines. 



Hab., New Zealand (Port Nicholson), Mr. Earl. 



Feronia (Cophosus) elongella. 



Head with an H-shaped impression in fi-ont ; thorax 

 slightly convex, with a very deep, pyriform impression on 

 each side ; a deep groove, distinctly striated across, and 

 ending in a deepish fossa both in fi-ont and behind ; elytra 

 rather convex ; considerably sinuated on the outside at 

 the end ; longitudinally striated, the striae with interrupted 

 punctures, especially behind. 



Length, G^ lines. 



Hab., New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



Omaseus sylvaticus. 



Omaseus sylvaticus, Hombr. and Jacq. Voy. mi Pole 

 Slid. t. 2./. 5. 



Hab., New Zealand (Akarao). 



Argutor pantomelas. 



Argutor pantomelas, Homb. and Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud. 

 t. '2.f. 6. 



Hab., New Zealand (Akaroa). 



Argutor erythropus. 

 Argutor erythropus, Hombr. and Jacq. Voy. au Pole 

 Sud. t. 2./. 7. 



Hab., New Zealand (Akaroa). 



Argutor piceus. 



Argutor piceus, Hombr. and Jacq. Voy. 

 1. 2./. 8. 



Hab., New Zealand (Akaroa). 



Pole Sud. 



Broscds Carenoides. pi. 1./. 6. 



Very deep black ; head in front, near the base of man- 

 dibles with two or three deep punctures on each side ; 

 thorax very narrow behind and transversely gi-ooved ; a 

 slight, straight stria down the middle, across irregularly 

 striated ; on the lateral margin are some points, from 

 which proceed longish, reddish hairs ; elytra smooth, with 

 very faint indications of grooves, which behind are more 

 distinct ; the spaces between somewhat granulated ; two 

 or three punctures on the shoulders of the elytra, with 

 reddish hairs in them ; one or two very distant points on 

 the elytra from the shoulder to the tip of elytra ; femora 

 and palpi rufescent. 



Length, 13:^ lines. 



Hab., New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



The greater part of the legs and antennae are broken off 

 in the specimen described. In the Museum collection 

 there is a closely alhed species from Australia. 



