54 [Augiist, 



side extending beyond the middle. The antennae are half as long again 

 as the body, and reddish-testaceous. The legs are pale testaceous, 

 with the club of the femora blackish, and the apex of the tibiae dusky. 



PsiLOCN^iA Brouni (Sharp, MS.), n. sp. 



Latior, stiblinearis, snpra depressa ; cinerea, suhtus et elytrorum lateribus atro- 

 Jhtscis ; thorace medio dilatato, elytris apice singulatim subacuminatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Tairua, near Auckland (Capt. Broun). 



Rather larger and broader than P. linearis ; the thorax especially 

 differing in being somewhat abruptly dilated in the middle. The 

 elytra are considerably depressed behind the scutellar region, and at 

 the apex are singly subacuminate, or, in other words, briefly and 

 very obliquely truncated from the suture outwards. The upper edge 

 of the dark fuscous lateral streak is very flexuous, and much darker in 

 colour than the rest of the streak. The antennse are palish testaceous, 

 speckled with fuscous, and are ciliated beneath. 



DiSTERNA OBTUSIPENXIS, 71. Sp. 



^longato-trigona, atro-fusca, cinereo tenuiter tomentosa ; elytris ia.ii elevatis, disco 

 unicostatis, apice rotundatis, punctis magnis nonnullis lineatim digestis. 



Long. 5-6 lin. 

 Canterbury (Mr. Wakefield). 



Distinguished from all the Australian species of the genus by the 

 broadly rounded apex of the elytra. It differs from most of the species 

 also by the simply but strongly arched prosternum, the mesosternum 

 retaining the usual form, namely, trapezoidal with vertical anterior face. 

 The antenna? are blackish, with the bases of the joints 3-10 bluish- 

 grey. The thorax is uneven, slightly tri-tuberculate on the disc, and 

 armed on the sides with large tubercles ending in strong spines. 

 The elytra rise abruptly at the base to a plane, greatly elevated above 

 the thorax ; their grey tomentum is spotted, and shows besides traces 

 of two fasciae of the dark ground colour. The legs are unicolorous, 

 and clothed with long gx'ey bristles, like the whole underside of the 

 body. The upper surface has a more scanty clothing of erect bristles. 



Htbolasius peuator (Sharp, MS.), n. sp. 



Oblongu.i,f usco-pieeus,maculalaterali thoracis ponetube7Tulum,J'asciaquemediana 

 elytrorum cinereh; antennis longe ciliatis ; thorace tuberculo magno conico laterali, 

 alteris duobus disci minoribus; elytris passim ptinctatis,punctisque nonnullis majoribus 

 gparsis. Long, 3 lin. $ $ . 



. Tairua, near Auckland (Capt. Broun). 



