September. 1876. 1 78 



The only specimens I have seen of tliia species are fourteen in 

 number, and were sent me, with other interesting New Zealand insects, 

 by Henry Edwards, Esq., of San Erancisco, after whom I have named 

 the species. These specimens vaiy very little inter se, and the male 

 characters are exactly similar in the four specimens of that sex. 



3. Ptroxota sobrina, n. sp. 



Stipra opalescens, suhtus rufescens, tJiorace vitta dorsaJi elytrisque 

 suturafuscis. Long, cor p. Q\ — 7 mm. 



Mas, tihiis anterioribus latiusculis, reeds. 



This species is of a peculiar opalescent colour ; and is readily distinguished from 

 the two species I have already named by the structure of the male tibiae and tarsi, 

 which, in some respects, are intermediate between those of the other two species. 

 In that sex the club of the antenna is rather lon<i ; the front tibia; are short, but 

 rather broad : they are very little curved ; the basal joint of the tarsus is rather short, 

 and inserted at a moderate distance from the extremity. 



Three male individuals labelled " Taranaki," and bearing the No. 

 1977, were sent me by Mr. Edwards, and are the only specimens I 

 have seen. In one of them the thoracic stripe is very indistinct, but 

 the intra-marginal elytral stripe is pretty distinct, though it is nearly 

 absent in the other two. The male characters are quite similar in the 

 three specimens. 



4. Pthonota munda, n. sp. 



Supra Icefe viridis,fere t/nicolor, elijfrornvi laterihus apicem versus 

 phis minusvejlnfeseenfihus. Loncj. carp. 9 — 10 mm, 



Mas, antennarum clava elongnta ; tihiis tarsisque anterioribus /ere 

 ut in M. fesliva, Fab., sed adhuc magis elongafis. 



This form is very close to M. festina, but is rather more elongate, 

 and is of a beautiful almost unicolorous green on the upper surface, 

 and the club of the antennae in the male is distinctly longer, and the 

 tibiae and tarsi are a little longer. 



I received this species from Mr. Edwards, but only two males and 

 a female ; and I have also an individual from another source in my 

 collection. 



MENIMUS,* nov. gen. {Tenebrionidarum). 



Anfennce breves, crassce, clavafce, 10-articulatce. 

 Oculi parvi, vel minuti. 



Tarsi subtus Jongius setosi, posteriores articulo hasali hand 

 elongate. 



•M6n-I-mu3.— D. S. 



