52 [Aufeaist. 



Note. — I take this opportunity of correctiug an unfortunate error 

 into whicli I fell in describing tlie other species of Ehynchophorous 

 Coleoptera from Kerguelen Land (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1875, Aug., p. 54). 

 The species which I described as Agonelytra longipennis is the same as 

 that described by my father some years ago under the name JEctem- 

 norrJiinus viridis, and placed in the vicinity of Phyllohius. In Lacor- 

 daire's ' G-enera,' this genus, on account of the cylindrical structure 

 of the abdomen, is placed near Wiinomacer, from which it differs iu 

 almost every other respect, and in the vicinity of which I did not for 

 a moment think of looking for au insect with a well developed scape 

 to the antennae. Hence my error. 



British Museum : 20th June, 1876. 



NEW SPECIES OF LONaiCOEN COLEOPTERA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 

 BY H. W. BATES, F.L.S. 



The following descriptions of nine new species of Longicom 

 Coleoptera from New Zealand raise to seventy the total number now 

 known from these islands. Instead of having an extremely poor 

 Coleopterous Fauna, as was originally supposed, it is becoming evident 

 that, as far as concerns number of species, the countiy is not likely 

 to fall far behind other insular regions of similar area and in similar 

 latitudes. Many undescribed species of this family exist in pi'ivate 

 collections, and new species are continually arriving. 



DlDT:MOCAXTnA .EGROTA, 01. Sp. 



Elongata, gracilis, omnino pallide testacea, sparsim selosa, anieniiis nudique 

 pilosis, articidis 3-7 sequeitiibtis long itiidlne fere aqualibus ; curpore supra grosse 

 discrete punctata; thorace tuberculis duobus acuiis laleralibus, antcriori minuto, 

 instructo. Long. 3-5 lin. 



Tairua, near Auck hind (Capt. Broun). 



Differs from the typical species in the proportions of the an- 

 tennal joints 3-5 ; but agreeing in the double armature of the sides 

 of the thorax : the 3rd to 7th joints arc linear and nearly equal in 

 length, the 4th being a little the shortest. The surface of the thorax 

 is free from tubercles, and is covered with large punctures except 

 along the dorsal line. The body is glabrous, except for the scattered 

 long hairs ; the antennae are densely pilose. 



