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^MONA, Newman. 



.(Emona, Newman, Eiit. p. 8. 



Appearance of Clytus ; head scarcely prone, immersed 

 in the prothorax almost up to the eyes, elongated in front ; 

 eyes reniform, dilated behind ; antennae scarcely longer 

 than the body, filiform, eleven -jointed, third and fourth 

 joints somewhat shorter than the following ; thorax with- 

 out spines, longer than wide, the sides nearly parallel, 

 transversely wrinkled on the disk ; elytra flattened on the 

 back, gradually attenuated towards the tip, the tip itself 

 rounded ; legs somewhat elongated ; femora simple. 



iEMONA HUMILIS. 



^mona humilis, Newman, Ent. p. 8. 



Chestnut ; eyes, tips of femora and tarsi brown ; crown 

 of head densely covered with golden hairs, longitudinally 

 divided down the middle by a smooth line ; scutellum 

 downy, coloured ; elytra deeply punctured, closely cover- 

 ed with gi-ay hairs. 



Hab. New Zealand, C. Danvin, Esq. 



Tetrorea, White. 



Head notched between the antennae ; antennae with the 

 fourth joint longest and slightly curved, each joint ciliated 

 on the inside ; thorax short, rather longer than wide, with 

 four tubercles, two transverse in the middle, two larger, 

 one on each side ; elytra elongated, at the base abruptly 

 inserted, the shoulder angled, and between the shoulder 

 and the suture there is a tubercle, end of elytra blunlish ; 

 legs, with the femora very thick. 



A new subgenus of Lamia, closely allied to Hypsioma. 



Tetrorea cilipes. PL 4, Ji(j. 9. 



Elytra at the base and on the margin punctured, a line 

 of punctures close to the suture extending to the middle 

 of elytra, near which, on each side, is a small tuft of light- 

 coloured hairs ; head and thorax with ochrey hairs ; an- 

 tennae gray, sprinkled with brown ; base of elytra deep 

 brown, with two streaks of yellowish hairs, elytra yellow- 

 ish brown, on the sides spotted with blackish, near the apex 

 is an oblique, gray spot, sprinkled with black, the fore part 

 margined with a curved line, white in front and ochrey be- 

 hind ; under side of abdomen dark gray, four of the seg- 

 ments with a yellow spot on each side; tibiae on each side 

 near the base with two or three tufts of whitish hairs. 



Length, 6| to 7 lines. 



Lamia (amniscus?) flavipes. 



Thorax much wider than long, with a strong, somewhat 

 recurved spine behind ; head and thorax with yellowish 

 hairs, in some parts rather deeply punctate ; base of elytra 

 punctate, in the middle of each a tubercular wart, elytra 

 covered with close, grayish hairs, amongst which are some 

 short, stiffish hairs of a darker colour; four of the segments 

 of abdomen beneath with four largish, yellow marks on 

 each on a black ground ; basal joint of antennae and femo- 



ra gray, with small black spots, other joints of antennae 

 yellow at base and dusky at the tips ; tibiae and tarsi yel- 

 lowish. 



Length, 7 lines. 



Hab, New Zealand, Capt. Parry. 



Lamia crista. 



Lamia crista, Fabr. Ent. Syst. H. 268, 6. Olir. t. 14, 

 /• 101. 



Antennae rather longer than the body, ash-coloured, 

 joints black at the tip ; thorax on both sides anned with a 

 sharp spine and beneath the spine a fulvous point ; elytra 

 in front griseous, with a large, compressed, three-toothed 

 tubercle, behind palish, with a small, oblique, black streak ; 

 femora clavate, black, club griseous ; tibiae griseous, black 

 at the tip. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Banks, Mus. Brit. 



A very small species, which seems to come near Hebe- 

 cerus. 



Lamia (Hexatricha) pulverulenta. 



Lamia pulverulenta, Westw. Arc. Ent. H. 86, t. 56, 

 f.b. 



Obscure, powdered with white ; head rather elongated 

 behind the eyes, front pail neai'ly perpendicular, behind 

 with two whitish lines; palpi short, with the extremity 

 somewhat pointed ; antennae eleven-jointed, third joint the 

 longest, first six joints fringed on the outside with hairs, 

 alternately coloured as the joints themselves, the bases of 

 which are white arid the extremities black ; thorax nearly 

 rounded, sides unarmed ; elytra convex, humeral angles 

 prominent, hind part much attenuated and deflexed, the 

 tips not spinose but pilose, along each run four slender, 

 fulvous, elevated costte, which do not extend to the tip, 

 the middle of the elytra ornamented with two interrupted, 

 black fasciae ; legs varied with black and whitish colours ; 

 extremity of tibiae externally pilose. 



Length, 8 to 9 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti). Mr. Earl also found it 

 in the N. Island, at Port Nicholson: in the specimens sent 

 from the latter locality, the markings are by no means so 

 distinct. 



Isodera villosa. pi. ^ifg. 1- 



Saperda hirta. Fair. Ent. Syst. H. 309, 10. 



Saperda villosa, Fabr. Syst. El. 320, 13. 



Antennae brown, as long as the body; head griseous, four 

 spots on the base yellowish ; thorax transversely wrinkled; 

 elytra ferruginous, rough, with griseous hairs, blunt at the 

 end ; legs griseous. 



Length, 9 to 12 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, Mus. Brit. 



This species I cannot refer to any of the numerous ge- 

 nera lately established. The antennae are somewhat flat- 

 tened ; the thorax is longer than wide, nearly cylindrical, 

 above it is transversely striated ; the elytra are elongated. 



