108 t^P"i> 1^"=*- 



mauy years ago to Mr. Bates, who returned it with the remark 

 " appears distinct from typical opacuJa and otagoensisy This indi- 

 vidual, I believe, is a female of C tarsalis. The tarsal character is 

 absent, but in other respects it agrees with the type, except that the 

 legs are a little thinner, and the thorax not quite so broad. 



If the two individuals are really, as I suppose, one species, it 

 may be distinguished from opacula by the slightly greater width iu 

 proportion to the length ; by the eye being a little larger in the longi- 

 tudinal axis, and by the structure of the male feet. 



I do not know where Albury is. Peel Forest is ''in Canterbury," 

 but f do not know more than this. 



CiLIBE VELOX, Sp. IIOV. 



Angusta, plcea, dense punctata, upaca, aiifeiinis jyedibusque elongatis ; 

 elytris suhsulcatis, minus fortiter punctatis ; tihiis anteriorihus dente externa 

 pre-apicali discreta. Long. 12|, lat. b\ mm. 



A very distinct species of the C otagoensis group, which I describe from a 

 single male. The strong deiiticulation of the front tibia3 reminds one of C. tibialis, 

 from which in some other respects the species is very different. The appendages 

 are unusually long for the size of the insect, but probably in the female this will not 

 be conspicuous, as the legs are usually longer in the male sex of Cilibe. Less 

 convex than C. tibialis, and with the sculpture very much more effaced, the upper 

 surface not in the least shining, and the thorax almost completely destitute of 

 basal impressions though formed as in C. tibialis ; there is no groove along the 

 sides, and the hind angles are acute, as in that species. The elytra are narrow, 

 more attenuate and acuminate behind than they are in C. tibialis, with only narrow 

 lateral groove, with the surface distinctly subsulcate, and the punctuation fine, 

 subeffaced. 



Christchurch, New Zealand. 



Cilibe lewisiana, sp. nov. 



Suboblonga, pariim convexa, piceo-nigra, hand omnino opaca, prothorace 

 dorso subtiliter punctata et nitido ; elytris densissime punctatis, subopacis. 



Long. 14^ mm. 



This can only be compared with C. otagoensis, to wliich it is similar in form. 

 C. lewisiana is however smaller and is easily distinguished by the comparatively 

 smooth pronotum, which is less densely and more fiaely punctured. The front 

 angles of the thorax are not much produced ; the sides are nearly straight behind , 

 scarcely at all narrowed or sinuate, but the base on each side slopes back a little to 

 the angle, which is therefore slightly acute. The explanation of the sides of the 

 elytra is but slight, their sculpture is very dense, but not so excessively crowded as 

 it is in C. otagoensis, and the surface is not so completely dull. 



I have seen eighteen examples of this species, taken by Mr. J. H. 



