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vered with yellowish hairs ; elytra shining green, sprinkled 

 over with short, gray hairs, scutellum and a few small 

 spots across the elytra covered with yellow hairs ; abdo- 

 men beneath smooth, polished, deep brown ; the sides 

 spotted with yellow ; legs somewhat violet, with short, 

 gray hairs. 



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



PaRMENA ANTARCTICA. 



Thorax thickly punctured ; base, sides and sutural mar- 

 gin of elytra punctured, on each elytron are two small tufts 

 of hair placed longitudinally ; the whole of the insect is 

 clothed with a grayish pubescence, amongst which are 

 some longer and stiffer hairs ; across the middle of each 

 elytron is a triangular, black spot, extending to the poste- 

 rior of the tufts, a large, triangular mark common to each 

 elytron at the lip ; antennae and tibiae banded with brown. 



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



Calliprason, White. 



Calliprasou, Wliite, DieffenbacK's Netv Zealand, II. 

 277. 



Head behind the eyes not wider than the thorax ; eyes 

 very large, prominent, very slightly (if at all) notched near 

 the insertion of the antennae; antennae eleven-jointed, first 

 joint longest, dilated at the end, second minute, third, 

 fourth and fifth the most slender, third and fourth knobbed 

 at the end, the fifth gradually, and the terminal joints 

 shghtly, dilated ; thorax longer than broad, narrowed in 

 front and behind, sides with a short spine behind the mid- 

 dle ; legs long, slender ; femora clavate ; elytra long, gi-a- 

 dually growing narrower towards the end, which is simple. 



narrow line of yellow on the side close to the margin and 

 extending from the shoulder to near tlie tip ; legs rufous. 



Length, 9j lines. 



Hab. New Zealand, W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Family Chrvsomelid^. 



COLASPIS BRUNNKA. 



Chrysomela brunnea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. II. 323, 75. 



Thorax smooth, shining, with two blackish green spots ; 

 elytra testaceous, punctate, suture, and oblique line from 

 the suture blackish green, under side deep black; legs yel- 

 low ; this species varies much in colour ; the above is the 

 description of the variety known to Fabricius ; in some, 

 the spots on the thorax are very obscure ; the elytra are 

 testaceous, with a greenish hue ; legs and under side of a 

 uniform testaceous ; in others the whole of the insect is 

 deep black, with a greenish hue, the femora at the base 

 being ferruginous and the antennae tinged with the same. 



Hab. New Zealand, on the flowers of the Leptosper- 



COLASPIS PALLIDIPENNIS. 



Deepish brown, with pale ochrey elytra and legs ; head 

 behind with a black band, between the eyes a testaceous 

 band, with a slight, impressed line in the middle ; thorax 

 deepish brown, margined with testaceous, thickly and 

 closely punctured ; elytra pale ochrey, the margin of suture 

 deep brown, the basal half very closely and iiTegularly 

 punctured, the apical portion and margin with the punc- 

 tures in lines ; under side of body black ; the legs pale 

 ochrey. 



Length, If line. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Calliprason Sinclairi. PI. i,fi(j. 3. 



Calliprason Sinclairi, White, I. c, 



Stenoderus Sinclairi, Westwood, Arc. Ent. II. p. 27, t. 

 56,/. 3. 



Above grass-green, beneath silvery gray, with silky 

 scales or hairs ; abdomen reddish brown, where seen 

 through silvery gray ; legs, antennae and cibarial organs 

 reddish ; parts about the mouth with gray hairs ; head and 

 thorax above darker than the elytra, in some places inclin- 

 ed to blackish ; elytra strongly margined, margin yellowish 

 brown, upper surface minutely punctured, with three rather 

 indistinct, longitudinal ridges. 



Length, A^ lines. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Family Coccinellid^. 

 Coccinella Tasmanii. 



Very deep black, spotted with yellow ; head black, with 

 two small angular yellow spots between the eyes, one close 

 to each eye ; thorax with a large, square yellow spot on 

 each anterior angle ; elytra with seven yellow spots, two at 

 the base somewhat elongated, one on the shoulder, the 

 other near the suture, next two before the middle, the outer 

 close to the margin, almost divided into two, the inner 

 near the suture and sharpish above, two beyond the mid- 

 dle, outer next the margin and sharpish below, the last at 

 the tip ; under side and legs black. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Calliprason marginatum. PL 4, Jig. 6. 

 Thorax above in the middle with two little spines, a 

 widish space down the middle transversely and irregularly 

 striated ; elytra above very flat and thickly but not deeply 

 pitted, the sides gradually tapering from the base to the 

 tip ; head above in the middle and two lines on the thorax, 

 one on each side, with short, yellow hairs, rest of head and 

 thorax deep brown ; elytra deep, dull green, with a long. 



Note to p. 9. 



"LucANUs (Prionus?) Antilope." 



Lucanus (Prionus?) Antilope, Kirhj, Zool. Jotirn. U. 

 70, PI. 1,/. 7. 



Mandibles taken from a string of green beads, &c., 

 brought from New Zealand, "now in the collection of R. 

 D. Alexander, Esq., F.L.S., of Ipswich." Kirby, 1. c. 

 (1825). 



