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by Mr. Newman, 1. c. ; the antennae and legs are more ru- 

 fous, the stripe down the middle of the thorax is wider and 

 lighter in colour ; the elytra down the suture, at the tip 

 and on the margin are widely margined with pale rufous, 

 there is no iridescence on the elytra as in the type speci- 

 mens. 



Hab. New Zealand ? (Port Nicholson), C apt. Parry. 



COPTOMMA VARIEGATUM. 



Callidium variegatum, Fabr. Ent. Syst, II. 325, 32. Oliv. 

 /. 5,/. 58. 



Coptomma vitticolle, Newm. Ann. Nat. Hist. V. /;. 18. 



Antennae moderate, black, two last joints rust-coloured ; 

 head black, with two lines and a transverse stria, whitish ; 

 thorax smooth, above deep black, with four white, longitu- 

 dinal lines, the sides with numerous minute, yellowish 

 spots ; elytra deep black, with three somewhat raised, lon- 

 gitudinal ridges, covered with many minute, yellow spots, 

 most crowded on a transverse band about the middle, and 

 two shortish oblique bauds near the base ; abdomen deep 

 black on each side, with a double row of yellow spots, the 

 inner the largest ; legs black, femora of hind legs with a 

 yellowish spot above. 



Length, 7^ to W^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (N. & S. Islands). 



Coptomma sulcatum. 



Calhdium sulcatum, Fahr. Ent. Syst. II. 326, 34. Oliv. 

 t. 4,/. 48. 



Tmesisternus, Giierin, Voy. Coq. II. 130. 



Antenna; short, brown ; head ash-coloured, line on the 

 forehead raised, smooth, black ; thorax covered with ash- 

 coloured hairs ; elytra furrowed with black, smooth, raised 

 lines and four white, villous furrows ; legs griseous. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Banks. 



Coptomma lineatum. PL 4,f. 5. 



Callidium lineatum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 325, 33. OUv. 

 t. 4, /: 50. 



Tmesisternus, Guerin, Voy. Coquille II. 130. 



Antennae short, first joint much thicker than the rest, 

 ru.st-coloured, the others blackish ; head dark brown, with 

 two white lines meeting in front ; thorax with two broad, 

 whitish lines ; scutellum whitish ; elytra bluntish, rust-co- 

 loured, with four, widish, impressed lines, the first on the 

 outer margin, two in the middle joined together before 

 reaching the tip, the fourth on the suture, these lines are 

 filled with yellowish white hairs ; abdomen with yellowish 

 white hairs, each segment in the middle with a triangular, 

 rust-coloured, smooth mark ; legs somewhat rust-coloured, 

 the ends of femora tipped with a steely black. 



Length, 8|- to 9^^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Coptomma acutipenne. PI. 4i,Jlg. 2. 

 Head covered with grayish hairs, vertex with a smooth, 

 somewhat raised line down the middle, and a similar line 

 on the inside of each eye ; thorax smooth in the middle, 



the sides covered with yellowish hairs; elytra pointed at 

 the end, a notch between the point and the suture, four 

 impressed lines filled with yellowish white hairs, the first 

 on the margin, the second running nearly to the tip, the 

 third not connected at the end with the second, running a 

 little beyond the middle, the fourth on the suture, but 

 rising about one-third down ; abdomen whitish beneath, a 

 broad, dusky line down the middle; legs olive brown, base 

 of femora yellowish. 



The general colour is a deepish black, but in two speci- 

 mens the elytra are of an olive gi'een, and in one the thorax 

 and head are of a deep rufous, without hairs, but this seems 

 a rubbed specimen. 



Length, 4| to 6 lines. 



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



Callidium (?) diveksicorne. 



Antennae with the third and fourth joints together as 

 long as fifth, the fourth joint not half the length of 

 the third (head and thorax crushed) ; femora ver^' much 

 clavated ; elytra coarsely punctured at the base, more 

 finely about the middle, and quite smooth at the end, very 

 deep brown, a longish testaceous mark on the suture at the 

 base, four longish, oval, testaceous spots across the elytra, 

 which, if continued would form a cross, a smaD spot close 

 to the shouldei-, a longish, testaceous line on the margin 

 just before the middle, a large testaceous spot near the tip ; 

 club of femora deep brown, base yellowish, tibiae black at 

 the end, yellow at the base. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Obrium Fabriciandm. 



Obrium Fabricianum, IVestiv. Arc. Ent. 11. 28 (not O. 

 minutum, Auct.). 



Callidium minutum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 332, 60. Oliv. 

 t. 5,./: 56. 



Ciytus minutus, Fabr. Syst. El. 1. 346. 



Antennae moderate, first joint testaceous, the rest white 

 at the base, black at the tip ; head, thorax, elytra and legs 

 tertaceous ; elytra before the middle with a white band, 

 which does not reach the suture ; femora much clavated, 

 white at the base. 



Hab. New Zealand, — Mr. Colenso. 



Obrium guttigerum. 

 Obrium guttigerum, Westw. Arc. Ent. II. 28. t. 56, 

 Jig- 4. 



Violet-coloured, shining ; elytra more purple, somewhat 

 tuberculated at the base, each with a large rounded, slight- 

 ly raised spot in the middle ; all the joints of the antennae 

 at the tip, and the clubbed tips of the femora black ; head 

 in front tawney purple ; trophi short, reddish ; tips of the 

 short mandibles black ; thorax elongated before and be- 

 hind, the middle much narrowed, in the middle rounded, 

 gibbous ; tibia and tarsi pale testaceous. 



Hab. New Zealand (Port Nicholson). 



