lOi , February, 



Xuthodes 2^iinctipe7mis, aud has a aimilar peculiar sculpture of the 

 elytra ; but in X. apicalis the punctures behind the fascia are not 

 black, and though those immediately behind the fascia are smaller and 

 distant, those near the apex are coarse and closely placed. The head 

 in X. apicalis is only indistinctly channelled between the eyes. 



Sent from Tairua by Captain Eroun, -with the information that 

 he had only been able to find two individuals of the species. 



Xuthodes Batesi, n. sp. 



(Ociilis in vertice remotis). Piceus, antennis, pedihusque rufe^ 

 centihus, cli/fris fuxco-testaceis, liiieis longitudinalihus eburneis, punc- 

 tisque sat magnis, remotis, apicem versus ohsoletis. Long. 1Q\ mm. 



Antennae with the 2nd and 3rd joints sub-equal, the 3rd slightly the shorter, 

 aud much shorter than the 4th and following joints. Thorax with the anterior 

 angles very obtuse and indistinct, and without the slightest projection ; it is about 

 as long as broad ; the sides are about straiglit till behind the middle, and are thence 

 distinctly narrowed towards the base ; the surface is rather dull, but bears some 

 distant punctures and a fine pubescence ; in front of the middle, there is on each side 

 a shining obtuse elevation, and along the middle just behind these a slightly elevated 

 loiigitudinal smooth space. The elytra are shining and of a smoky-yellow colour, 

 and each has three rather undulated, paler, ivory-like lines, and the sutiu'C aud 

 external margin are also similarly pale ; they bear also scattered pits or punctures 

 of an obscure reddish colour, those towards the apex being obsolete. 



Two individuals of this species have been found in the Hikuwai 

 forest by Captain Broun, one in December, 1874, the other on 16th 

 Januar}^, 1876. The individual he sent me bore the number 15 to 

 distinguish it. 



I have named this striking species in honour of Mr. II. W. Bates, 

 aud have done so with the more reason because it seems, from informa- 

 tion sent me by Mr. E. W. Jansonand Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, that the 

 species described by me as Zorion Batesi is probably Z. guttigerum, 

 AV'estw. ; XiUhodes Batesi differs from X. apicalis and punctipcnnis by 

 its more remote eyes, and slight differences in other details of structure, 

 but 1 do not think it is necessary to make a new generic name for it 

 at present. 



Drotus eleoaks, n. sp. 



Elongatus, pcrangusfus, minus convpxus, fusco-nifus, capite thora- 

 ceque ohscuriorihus, parcius griseo-pubescens, prothorace inccquali, 

 hiconsiricto, elyiris sutura, lineisque duabus pubescentid pallida. 



Bong. 11 mm. ; lat. elyt. basi, If mm; long, anten. \1\ mm. 

 Head rather coarsely and closely punctured, of an infuscate reddish or somewhat 

 pitchy colour, with a few short, depressed, deUcate, silvery hairs. Thorax elongate 



