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In the Loiigiconis we iind some baiidsouie species of moderate 

 size, and a good many small and obscure forms, by beating the dense 

 tangled festoons of Rubus ausfraJis, especially when these include 

 plenty of dry stems and hanging dead leaves. The beautifully 

 marbled Tefrorea cilipes, White, and the stout ochreous Diastamerus 

 tomentosits, Payc, arc not uneounnon, with the elegant fulvous Ophryops 

 dispar, ISharp, Asthefolca pauper, Bates, and Astlietolida lucida, Br., 

 two small shining reddish sjiecies of great activity, the rare elongate 

 Epheus costifer, Br., Navomorpha llneata, Fab., and N. sulcata, Fab., 

 both elegantly marked with longitudinal white lines on a dark 

 ground ; and numbers of rather dull-looking forms of the genera 

 Xyloioles (the most extensive genus of the section in New Zealand), 

 Hyholasius, Eurych(Bna, &c. Other Longicorns frequent the blos- 

 soms of the Leptospermum and the white llata {Metrosideros alba), 

 such as the narrow brown Stenopofes pallidus, Pasc, the grass-green 

 CalUprason Sinclair i, White, and the handsome ochreous Votum 

 mundum, Br. and Xuthodes divergens, Br. Some species are found under 

 the bark, or in burrows in the Coniferous trees, as Ambeodontus 

 tristis, Fab., and the rare and beautiful Pseudosemnus amabilis, Br., of 

 which I took a fine series in August, 1902, in a standing dead 

 " Rimu " ; and others again, as the robust little species of Somatidia 

 (allied to the Mediterranean genus Parmena), are found under pieces 

 of wood, or dead leafy boughs on the ground. Phytophaga are but 

 little in evidence, the most noticeable species being the nearly white 

 Adoxia vulgaris, Br., which abounds on Piper excelsum and other 

 shrubs. 



Unquestionably the finest and most remarkable beetle found in 

 New Zealand is the enormous Brenthid, Lasiorrhynchus barbicornis, 

 Fab., which appears to be not rare at times near Wellington, but I 

 never had the good fortune to see it alive, and found only one or two 

 dead specimens. Anfhribidce, nearly all of small forms, are fairly 

 common by beating, Anthribus ornatus, Sharp, being the largest and 

 most handsome ; A. votes, Sharp, which is not rare under loose dry 

 bark, is possessed of considerable leaping powers. The Phynchophora 

 usually form the greater part of the beetles taken in any collecting 

 excursion, and of these the most frequent are perhaps the genus 

 Acalles and its allies. Some of these are quite the tiniest weevils I 

 have ever seen, while others (Crisius, Tychanus, Sympedius, &c.) are 

 of quite respectable size, and one of the finest and largest of the 

 group, Rhynclwdes ursus, White, is sometimes taken walking on dead 

 timber. General beating of flowers and foliage produces a number of 



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