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considerably punctured, blackish, sides margined with 

 grayish scales ; elytra with seven longitudinal keels, regu- 

 larly punctured down the edge, the punctures reddish 

 brown, the edge between green, the interstices between the 

 rows with brownish gray scales, a few spots and a trans- 

 verse band or two of a deepish brown colour ; legs with 

 the tibia3 ferruginous. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Wellington), Capt. Parry. 



Family Bostrichid.e. 



Apate minutus. 

 Apate minutus, Fabr. Syst. Etit. 54, 4. 

 Hab. New Zealand, Banks' cabinet. 



Platypus apicalis. 



Deep brown ; the basal joint of antenna;, the metathorax 

 and femora yellow ; head sloping, a slight keel on the ver- 

 tex in the middle ; thorax very smooth, shining, the side 

 with a depression for the fore legs, with a notch hardly vi- 

 sible from above ; elytra rather deeply channelled, sloping 

 behind, with a strong, tooth-like projection on each near 

 the end, closer to the margin than the suture ; anterior 

 tibia3 with oblique grooves, which terminate on the outside 

 in teeth. 



Length, 2| lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (in Kaudi wood). 



Lyctus depressiusculus. 



Deep blackish brown ; antennae much shorter than the 

 thorax ; thorax with a squareish depression in the middle, 

 a distinct margin on the sides, coarsely punctured above ; 

 elytra with longitudinal lines of longish punctures. 



Length, nearly 2 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



Family Cucujid.e. 

 Dendrophagus brevicornis. 



Pitchy brown, varying in shade in different specimens ; 

 antennae when stretched back reaching only to beyond the 

 base of the second pair of legs, first joint not twice the 

 length of the third joint ; head somewhat elongated, finely 

 punctured ; thorax very slightly depressed, rather widest 

 in front, a longitudinal impression on the disk, with a very 

 slight keel down the middle, anterior angle with two or 

 three denticulations, behind it is narrowest ; elytra slightly 

 depressed, with the side margins somewhat hairy, the ely- 

 tra longitudinally lineated, the lines shallow and punc- 

 tured ; femora thickish and somewhat flattened. 



Length, 2| to .3 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Bay of Islands, Port Nicholson). 



Dendrophagus suturalis. 



Testaceous ; the elytra paler, a darkish brown line on 



each suture extending to beyond the middle, where it forms 



a transverse, widish brown band cut off before the margin ; 



head with two longitudinal, impressed lines, one close to 



each eye ; thorax with the sides straight and two or three 

 small hairs on the edge, both the head and thorax very 

 finely punctured ; elytra with the shoulders rounded, the 

 upper surface with shortish subferruginous hairs and seve- 

 ral punctured lines ; the legs moderate. 



Length, 2j lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



Family Mycetophagid.e. 

 Latridius antipodum. 



Deep, shining black ; club of antennae subferruginous ; 

 sides of thorax slightly sinuated ; elytra somewhat widen- 

 ed about the middle, suture and edge of elytra raised, each 

 elytron with two slightly raised keels, the two inner with 

 an elevation beyond the middle, and two transverse widish 

 depressions before the middle. 



Length, 1 line. 



Hab. New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



This species is very closely allied to Latridius nodifer, 

 described by Mr. Westwood in a note at p. 155 of his 

 Mod. Class, of Insects, vol. 1, and figured at p. 152, fig. 

 13, 2.3. 



Family Engid^. 

 Engis politus. 

 Engis politus, Hope, AfSS. 



Deep, smooth black ; antennae and legs ferruginous ; 

 head and thorax finely punctured ; three terminal joints of 

 antennae dilated and flattened. 

 Length, 

 Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Parry. 



BiTOMA INSULARIS. 



Head and thorax deep brown ; thorax on each side with 

 two parallel keels and two curved, raised lines in the mid- 

 dle behind ; each elytron with four longitudinal ridges 

 and two rows of largish punctures between each, elytra 

 palish brown, with a large, dark brown, triangular mark on 

 the base as wide as the elytra, and a few spots of different 

 sizes. 



Length, If line. 



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



Family Prionid.e. 

 Prionoplus, White. 



Prionoplus, White, Dieffenhacli's New Zealand, II. 276. 



Face between the antennae hollowed out ; mandibles 

 shortish, strong, angulated ; trophi prominent, somewhat 

 clubbed at the end ; eyes large, separated both above and 

 beneath by a rather narrow division ; antennae with the 

 first joint strong, short and thickest at the end, second 

 very small and somewhat cup-shaped, next eight with a 

 spine at the end, third joint the longest, the others gradu- 

 ally shorter, terminal joint bluntish at the end, last joints 

 somewhat flattened ; thorax short, transverse, not nearly 

 so wide as the elytra, sides with a strongish spine about 

 the middle, spine angulated at the base ; sides of scutel- 



