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the sides nearly parallel, the end rounded ; legs long, sim- 

 ple, anterior femora subclavate ; the middle and hind libise 

 somewhat flattened. (Isodera, IVhite). 



Agapanthida, White. 

 Head somewhat notched between the antennae, palpi 

 rather long, antennae scarcely the length of body, all the 

 joints but the second nearly of the same length ; thorax 

 spined on the side, rather broader than long, somewhat 

 rounded in front, truncated behind ; elytra elongated, 

 slightly narrowed behind the base ; femora clavated. 



Agapanthida pulchella. PI. ^,Jig. 10. 



Covered with palish gray, somewhat silky scales ; base 

 of elytra with a roundish black spot on suture, in front 

 margined with deep yellow hairs, across the middle of ely- 

 tra there is an irregular, blackish band, not reaching the 

 margin, and interrupted in the middle, and a diagonal line 

 of yellow hairs near the end, with two black lunules behind 

 each, separated by a short, yellow line ; thorax with two 

 black spots above, one on each side ; base of the joints of 

 antenna}, beginning at the third, yellow ; basal half of 

 femora yellow. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand (Waikouaiti), Mr. Earl. 



DoRCADiDA, White. 



Antennae with all the joints but the first slender, very 

 slightly thickened at the end ; thorax longer than wide, 

 very straight behind and in front, upper parts and sides 

 with a kw tubercles, the sides have a largLsh, pointed tu- 

 bercle on each side ; elytra pointed at the end, leaving be- 

 tween them a deep notch ; legs and tarsi rather slender. 



This, CersDgidion and Microtragus [VVJnte, Appendix 

 to Stoke's Voyage of the Beagle), are closely allied to Dor- 

 cadion. 



DORCADIDA BILOCULARIS. PI. 'k, Jig. 11. 



Dark brown, covered with very short, thickly placed, 

 yellowish gray hairs ; a roundish space in the middle of 

 the thorax and longitudinal line down the middle free from 

 tubercles ; elytra with a serrated, raised keel near to, and 

 parallel with, the outer margin, down the middle of each 

 elytron is a tubercular, raised keel, obsolete towards the 

 tip of elytra and in the centre enclosing an oval space ; 

 under side of body yellowish, sprinkled with black spots 

 and a widish black line down the middle of abdomen. 



Length, 7 to 8^ lines. 



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



Xylotoles, Newman. 



Xylotoles, Newman, Ent. p. 12. 



Head prone, antennae longer than the body, slender, ele- 

 ven-jointed; thorax nearly cylindrical, straight on the 

 sides ; elytra of much the same width as the thorax, con- 

 vex on the sides, pointed at the end; legs moderate; femo- 

 ra swollen at the end. 



Xylotoles geiseus. 



Xylotoles griseus, Westw. Arc. Ent. II. 27, t. 56, /. 2. 



Saperda grisea, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 168, Syst. El. 11. 324. 



Xylotoles lentus, Newm. Ent. 12 .'' 



Lamia heteromorpha, Bohd. Voy. Astrol. t. 9,/. 14 ? 



Griseous ; margin of scutellum and some very short lines 

 on elytra yellowish, base with impressed dots, tip scarcely 

 acuminated ; legs brown ; femora clavated ; antennae 

 brown. 



Hab. New Zealand (Bay of Islands), on flowers. 



Xylotoles subpinguis. 



Grayish brown, sprinkled with dusky spots ; scutellum 

 yellowish ; some spots on the thorax void of hairs ; each 

 elytron near the base with three small yellowish specks ; 

 antennae sprinkled with minute, brown dots. 



Hab. New Zealand (S. Island), Mr. Earl. 



Xylotoles gracilis. 



Slender, with a grayish pubescence sprinkled with 

 brown spots and a lunated, brown mark across the middle 

 of the elytra ; thorax nearly as wide as long. 



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



Xylotoles parvulus. 



Testaceous, covered with a grayish pubescence ; base of 

 elytra with several dots and four rows of small punctures 

 in two lines, extending to the middle of elytra. 



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



In Capt. Parry's collection there is another species smal- 

 ler than the preceding, but so much rubbed and broken 

 that I cannot describe it. 



Xylotoles bimaculatus. 



Smooth, with two transverse, impressed lines on thorax, 

 one in front and one behind, middle of the thorax above 

 bulging ; the whole insect is of a rich brown colour, the 

 margins and posterior half of elytra covered with grayish 

 down, some spots free from it, a large depressed mark on 

 the basal part of each elytron covered with yellowish hairs. 



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



Xylotoles lynceus. 



Saperda lyncea, Fahr. Ent. Syst. II. 313, 27. 



Head black ; antenna3 brown, as long as body ; thorax 

 black on each side, with a rust-coloured point ; scutellum 

 rust-coloured ; elytra griseous, base punctato-sriated, tip 

 acuminated, diverging ; body black; abdomen on each side 

 with four rust-coloured spots ; legs brown ; femora clavate. 



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



Xylotoles l.etus. 

 Base of the elytra with several punctures, margin of su- 

 ture with a few depressed warts; head and antennae ferrugi- 

 nous, with many grayish hairs, joints of the former (from 

 the fourth) ringed with black at the end ; thorax shining 

 violet, somewhat rough on the sides, with some spots co- 



