Family Lucanid.«. 

 Dendroblax, White. 



Head narrow, narrowest behinil, in front widened and 

 truncated ; mandibles, viewed from above, somewhat ovate 

 and bent at the end, hollowed, on the outside somewhat 

 angled at the end ; eyes very large, well seen from above ; 

 antenniE longish, ten-jointed, basal joint nearly as long as 

 the other joints taken together, the joints from the se- 

 cond to the sixth short and roundish, somewhat angular 

 about the middle, the three last joints forming a roundish 

 head, the last rather the largest ; thorax not so wide as 

 elytra, with the sides in front rounded, in the middle con- 

 siderably notched for the reception of the head, side 

 angled in the middle, behind rather straight, middle 

 slightly convex ; elytra very wide, edge slightly margined ; 

 legs with the anterior tibiae wide and strongly toothed on 

 the outside, tibiae of middle pair toothed on the outside, 

 of hind pair much thickened at the end and hollowed 

 out where the tarsi are inserted, two long lobes on the 

 inside ; tarsi slender. 



This genus comes near Lamprima and Ryssonotus. 



Dendroblax Earlii. 

 Dendrobius Earlianus. 



PI. 2,/. 9, 10. 



Deep blackish brown ; head, thorax and elytra deeply 

 punctured ; head above, thorax above, in front and behind 

 with ferruginous, silky hairs ; scutellum with ferruginous 

 hairs ; elytra with four longitudinal flattish ridges, the outer 

 obsolete ; under side of thorax and legs with many ferrugi- 

 nous, silky hairs. 



Length, 9;^ to \2\ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, on the Hutt River, Port Nicholson, 

 Mr. Earl. 



MiTOPHYLLDS IRRORATUS, PI. 2,/ 3, 4. 



Mitophyllus irroratus, Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 IV. 56, /."l,/. 4. 



Pitchy red, with dull black spots scattered over the 

 whole body ; mandibles porrect, recurved, in front sharp 

 and behind denticulate ; antennae with the three last leaflets 

 very much elongated and pilose ; thorax quadrate, not mar- 

 gined ; elytra nearly thrice the length of the thorax, of a 

 pitchy brown, reddish, punctate, with dull black spots 

 sprinkled over the disk ; femora thickened ; tibiae one- 

 spined, serrated on the outside ; prosternum and meso- 

 sternum simple, not produced. <? 



In the female the three last leaflets of antennae are of 

 moderate size ; mandibles small, not much porrect, one- 

 toothed at the base ; body and thorax more rounded than 

 in the male. 



Length, ^h lines, breadth, Ij line. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



DORCUS PUNCTULATUS. 



Covered over above with minute punctures ; elytra with 

 four indistinct, longitudinal lines, with fewer punctures on 

 them ; scutellum punctured ; anterior femora with six teeth 

 on the outside. 



Length, 6 to 7 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Wellington.) 



DoRCUS SQUAMIDORSIS. PI. 2,/. 2. 



Black ; a lunated spot midway between the eyes and 

 another on the side of and behind the eyes, with deep 

 punctures and some yellowish scales on them ; thorax 

 with lateral and posterior mai-gins and the side of anterior 

 margin with impressed punctures and yellowish scales in 

 them, and four spots on the back, the posterior running 

 into the hind margin; the elytra with a widish band round 

 each, formed by deep punctures and scales in them, and 

 four large spots similarly impressed filling up most of 

 the surface of elytra ; scutellum with a smooth edge be- 

 hind ; anterior tibiae with four widish teeth on the edge, 

 the edge itself impressed. 



Length, 7 to 7j lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



LUCANUS RETIC0LATUS. 



Lucanus reticulatus, Buqvet MSS. Westwood, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. April 1, 1844, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XVII. 

 p. 59. 



Mandibles short, thick, bluntly toothed within, some- 

 what depressed ; black, thorax subquadrate ; thorax and 

 elytra reticulated with scales. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Buquet. 



Family Aphodiid^. 



OXYOMUS EXSCULPTUS. 



Oxyomus exsculptus. Parry, MSS. 



Very deep brownish black ; the lateral margin of a rich, 

 deep reddish brown ; head widely notched in front, above 

 smooth ; thorax punctured, especially behind, in front 

 and spot on sides smooth; elytra with the striaj very 

 deeply punctured ; anterior tibiae with three sharp teeth. 



Family Dynastid^. 

 Cheiroplatys Kirby, Hope. 

 Cheiroplatys truncatus. PL 2,f. 6. 

 Cheiroplatys truncatus, Hope, Col. Man. I. 85. 

 Scarabaius truncatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1.7, 16. Oliv.f. 

 11,/. 103. 



Elytra near the suture hollowed out, smooth, with 

 a few slightly impressed lines running in different 

 directions ; scutellum with a row of rather coarse punc- 

 tures parallel to the edge ; under side of thorax with deep 

 ferruginous hairs. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



Cheiroplatys punctatus. PL 2,/. 11. 

 Head with a flatti.sh, somewhat triangular projection on 

 the crown, behind which are two rather coarsely punctured 

 depressions ; thorax with a protuberance in the middle of 

 the fore edge, depressed behind ; the sides of thorax with 

 two depressions on each side, the posterior largest ; scutel- 

 lum smooth ; elytra covered with punctures, some of them 

 arranged in lines ; the whole of the upper side very deep 

 blackish brown, the suture pitchy ; front of the head, un- 

 der side of body and legs pitchy brown ; under side of 



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