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with a black club ; thorax smooth, green, shining, with a 

 brown dorsal line ; elytra green, smooth, with nine striaj, 

 suture brown ; body beneath testaceous, covered with 

 white hairs ■ sternum porrect, somewhat horned. 



Var. Melol. laeta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 166, 49, Oliv. t. 

 6,f. 56. 



Above of a golden colour ; line on thorax and scutellum 

 of a red colour. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Stethaspis, Hope. Micronyx, Boisd. 

 Stethaspis suturalis. pi. 2,Jiff. 7. 



Stethaspis suturalis, Hope, Col. Man. I. 104. 



Melolontha suturalis, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. II. 161, -25. Olii: 

 t. 7,f. 85. 



Micronyx chlorophyllus, Boisd. Voy. Asirol. II. 189. 



Rutele chlorophylle, Boisd. I. c. Atlas, t. 6,f. 18. 



Head green, unspotted, margin raised ; thorax smooth, 

 green, the margin slightly yellowish, behind bluntly an- 

 gled ; elytra smooth, somewhat striated, green, suture 

 yellowish ; breast and abdomen covered with white hairs ; 

 legs green ; tarsi ferruginous. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Family Tenebrionid^. 

 Prioscelida, White. 

 Head small, transverse ; antennae with the last six joints 

 transverse and considerably wider than the others ; tho- 

 rax as wide as elytra, somewhat narrower in front ; ante- 

 rior tibiae at base very uan-ow and somewhat cylindrical, 

 on the inside dilated, on the outer edge serrated ; nieso- 

 tibiae on the outside with many short spines ; meta-tibiae 

 quite smooth ; femora of anterior legs thicker than the 

 others. 



Prioscelida tenebrionoides. 



Pitchy brown ; thorax very slightly margined, polished 

 and very delicately punctulated ; elytra with eight longi- 

 tudinal striae on each, the striae distinctly punctured ; un- 

 der-side and legs rather lighter in colour than upper part. 



Length, Q^ to 7 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti), in sand and under 

 stones. 



CiLIBE granulosus. 



Cilibe granulosus, Breiiie, Co.ssyph. p. 39, t. 7,f. 5. 



Clouded brown, elongated, pointed at the end, smooth ; 

 head porrect, rounded ; thorax not sinuated, somewhat 

 convex, rugose, with the disk narrow, rugose ; elytra gra- 

 nuled, with many slight ribs ; the disk nearly obsolete. 



Hab. New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



CiLIBE PHOSPHUGOIDES. 



Very deep brownish black ; antennae and legs slightly 

 ferruginous ; head and thorax very closely punctured ; 

 thorax margined ; elytra very irregularly punctured, and 

 with many very obscure longitudinal striae. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



A species resembling the preceding in many respects, 

 but considerably wider. 



Opatrum tuberculicostatum. pi. \,J. 1.3. 



Covered with a light brown, sponge-like matter ; thorax 

 with the side-margin in front slightly sinuated; elytra at the 

 base depressed, gradually elevated to beyond the middle, 

 then somewhat suddenly inclined to the tip, each with four 

 longitudinal costae in addition to one close to the suture, 

 on which are some warts wider than the ribs, beyond the 

 middle of each is a tubercle higher than the rest, one next 

 the suture with this tubercle farther back than on the 

 others ; antennae with the third joint longest. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Saunders. 



Opatrum l^vigatum. 

 Opatrum Ijevigatum, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. I. 89, 5. 

 Hab. New Zealand, Banks' Cabinet. 



Family Helopid^. 

 Adelium harpaloides. PL \,f. 14. 

 Greenish olive brown, shining ; antennae and legs ferru- 

 ginous ; head and thorax very finely punctured ; the head 

 with two longitudinal distant grooves, connected in front 

 by a shallow transverse line ; thorax scarcely as wide as 

 the elytra, very finely margined ; middle and hind femora 

 with feiTuginous hairs behind. 

 Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti). 



PsEtiDHELOPS, Guerin. 

 Pseudhelops tukerculatus. 



Pseudhelops tuberculatus, Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1841, 125. 



Obscure bronze colour above, of a blackish colour be- 

 neath, in form very closely approaching Helops caraboides, 

 but smaller, and a little more contracted behind ; head 

 and thorax very finely punctured ; two very feeble, trans- 

 verse impressions on the head ; scutellum small, triangu- 

 lar ; elytra oval, convex, somewhat pointed behind, very 

 finely punctured, with striae of deep and oblong points ra- 

 ther close to each other ; each elytron has behind and 

 near the end four oblong tubercles which seem to be form- 

 ed by the termination of the costaj, effaced on the disk of 

 the elytra. 



Hab. Auckland Islands. 



Rygmodus, White. 



Of an oval shape, very convex ; the head and thorax 

 bent down ; elytra longer and wider than the abdomen ; 

 legs longish and somewhat flattened; clypeus subquadrate, 

 slightly notched at the end ; antennae apparently eight- 

 jointed, the first long and slender, second roundish, third, 

 fourth and fifth small, appearing to form but one joint, 

 sixth, seventh and eighth flattened and widened, forming a 

 longish club. 



Near Amarygmus. 



Rygmodus modestus. 

 Head, thorax, scutellum, under-side and legs black ; ely- 

 tra of a deep metallic green, with ten longitudinal, finely 



