19 



lum nearly parallel, abruptly rounded at the end, a smooth- 

 ish ridge down the middle ; elytra longish, rounded at the 

 end and narrowest tliere, margin slightly turned up ; femo- 

 ra with two spines at the end, tibia; with three spines, two 

 shorter on the inside at the end and a longer one on the 

 outside. 



Prionoplus reticularis. 



Prionoplus reticularis. White, I. c. Westwood, Arc. Ent. 

 II. 25, t. 56, /. 1. 



Pitchy brown, margins of abdominal segments beneath 

 paler ; elytra margined and of a lighter colom-, with three 

 longitudinal veins springing from the base and connected 

 by yellowish ner\'ures, forming irregular reticulations, not 

 con'esponding on each elytron, the elytra have a short 

 spine at the end close to the suture ; the head, thorax and 

 general surface of the elytra in-egularly punctured and ver- 

 miculated, thorax covered with many short, wool-like 

 hairs, which give it a brownish hue, a longer tuft on each 

 side behind. 



Length, 14f to 19 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson, &c.). 



Family Cerambycid.k. 



CeRAMBYX (PhLYCT^NODES ?) STRIGIPENNIS. 



Cerambyx (Phlyctsenodes ?) strigipennis, Westw. Arc. 

 Ent. II. 27, t. 56,/. 6. 



Head broad in front before the eyes, with the face rather 

 oblique and truncated, parts of the mouth small, mandibles 

 short, black at the tip ; palpi short, maxillary scarcely 

 larger than the labial ; antenna; shorter than the body, 

 first joint clavate, third and several following of nearly 

 equal length, base of the joints black ; head with a dark 

 central line, space behind the eyes dark-coloured ; thorax 

 constricted near the liont margin and dilated on each side 

 into a short, thick, conical spine; disk with four elevated tu- 

 bercles, the two front placed closer together than the other 

 two ; middle of thorax with a dark line ; elytra long, near- 

 ly parallel with the suture, five longitudinal streaks on each 

 of pitchy brown, first not extending to the base, second 

 and fourth united near the tip, third insulated by them, 

 fourth much abbreviated at the base, fifth slender and sub- 

 marginal ; feet slender and simple ; femora very slightly 

 clavate. 



Length, 11 lines. 



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



This seems to be nearly related in generic character 

 with Phlyctgenodes of Newman. 



Ophryops, White. 

 Head scarcely bent down at the end, considerably con- 

 tracted behind the eyes ; antenna; much longer than the 

 body, the joints from the fifth to the eleventh nearly equal 

 in length and longer than any that precede them ; eyes lu- 

 nated, upper and middle parts narrow and nearly equal in 

 width, lower part larger, inside edged with close, short, 

 fine hairs ; thorax as long as wide, sides smooth, nearly 



parallel ; elytra long, narrow, scarcely wider than the tho- 

 rax, soft, blunt at the end ; legs longish, femora gradually 

 thickened to the end. 



A new genus, coming near Tricheops and Uracanthus. 



Ophryops pallidus. PI. 4,/. 8. 



Pale yellowish ; three basal joints of antenna; darker ; 

 crown of head with many punctures ; thorax with many 

 scattered punctures above, two elongated, bent spaces, one 

 on each upper margin, more densely punctured than the 

 other ; elytra with four longitudinal yellow veins, the 

 spaces between thickly punctured with brown, tips of elytra 

 ciliated. 



Length, 9|^ lines. 



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



Eburida, White. 



Antenna; longer than the body, slightly hairy without 

 spines, first joint slightly bent and clubbed, last joints of 

 palpi truncated at the end; eyes lunated, lower lobe largest, 

 slightly sinuated just at the, base of mandibles ; thora.x 

 rather longer than broad, as wide in front as behind, a 

 small spine on the side margin behind, the sides somewhat 

 curved, two round, slightly raised polished tubercles on the 

 back in front, placed transversely ; elytra with the sides 

 parallel, the end bluntish and without spine ; legs longish, 

 femora gradually clavate, simple at the end. 



This genus comes near Eburia and Phoracantha, not far 

 from Didymocantha, Newman, Ann. Nat. Hist. V. 20. 



Eburida sublineata. 



Pale testaceous; head and thorax darker; space between 

 the antennae and eye covered with yellowish hairs ; head 

 between and behind the antennae sparsely punctured, with 

 a few scattered haiis, largish space on crown of head free 

 from hairs ; thorax somewhat roughish on the side, punc- 

 tured rather coarsely except on two tubercles and narrow- 

 ish fine down the middle, which are smooth, several scat- 

 tered, yellowish hairs, thickest on front of the tubercles 

 and oil a line behind them, triangular, covered with 

 yellowish hairs ; elytra thickly and rather coarsely punc- 

 tured, suture and sides blackish brown, as are two streaks 

 on elytra, outer largest and running from before the middle 

 to near the end, the basal half very obscure, the inner be- 

 fore the middle and very short ; femora somewhat ferrugi- 

 nous ; tibiae and tarsi rather hairy. 



Length, 6^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



Phoracantha dorsalis. 

 Phoracantha dorsalis, Newm. Ann. Nat. Hist. V. {}. 19. 

 Stenochorus dorsalis, Macleay, King's Survey, II. 451. 

 Hab. New Zealand, Dr. Sinclair. R.N. 



Brachytria latebrosa, Var. pallida, PI. ^,Ji<j. 4. 

 Brachytria latebrosa, Netvm. Entomol. p. 95. 

 In sculpture and form the New Zealand specimen agrees 

 with the two individuals from Kangaroo Island, described 



