488 M. JACOB Y 



labrum black, mandibles and palpi piceous , antennae slender , 

 black, the lower three joints Havous, third joint one half longer 

 tlian the second one, as long as the fourth joint, the following 

 joints slightly longer, thorax about one half broader than long, 

 of equal width, the sides straight, the anterior angles oblique, 

 forming a tooth or angle before the middle, the surface rather 

 convex, impunctate and shining, scutellum short, black, elytra 

 slightly wider at the base than the thorax, impunctate, convex, 

 the lateral margins near the extreme apex furnished with some 

 very short hairs, the disc testaceous, the suturai margins black 

 to a smaller or larger degree; posterior femora strongly thi- 

 ckened, black, their metatarsus longer than the following joints 

 together, the tibial spur placed at the outer side of the apex. 

 Paumomu Riv. , Kapakapa. 



A comparatively larger sized species of which a good many 

 specimens were obtained ; all the females which differ structurally 

 from the males in not having the anterior tarsi dilated, have 

 the elytra opaque, while the same parts in the male are highly 

 shining, in one or two specimens there is scarcely an indication 

 of the dark elytral suture. 



24. F*sylliocles Loriee , sp. n. 



Elongate, subcylindrical, metallic violaceous, antennae black , 

 the lower three joints flavous, thorax strongly and closely pun- 

 ctured, elytra finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat, extre- 

 mely finely punctured here and there, wings present. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, frontal elevations obsolete, clypeus broad, 

 eyes large, ovate, with narrow sulci at their inner margins, 

 labrum transverse, with a row of punctures, black, antennae 

 reaching nearly to the middle of the elytra, black, the lower 

 three joints flavous, second joint longer than the third, terminal 

 joints gradually thickened, thorax one half broader than long, 

 tlie sides nearly straight, narrowed towards the apex, angulate 



