May, 1003.1 |()9 



Lewis, of the Public Works Office, after whom I have named it. 

 These specimens do not vary much, and T think the species is 

 distinct, though it has no salient character. 

 Otago, Wedderburn. J. TT. Lewis. 



ClLIBE MERIDIONALIS, Sf. 1WV. 



Ancfusfa, sKhtUiter sculptitratci, opaca, piceo-riifa, antennls, ^jcr/p?'* 

 ■pe(fib/i.s(juc dilute riijis. Loncj. 11, lat. vix. 5 mm. 



This small form comes nearest to C. hnttoni, from which it is distinguished by 

 its shape, being narrower in front, so (liat f.he thorax is less transverse, and by the 

 more effaced scnlpture of the elytra, which, too, have only very indistinct traces of 

 grooves or eostee. Tiie front angles of the thorax are but little produced; the sides 

 are a little sinuate, and the hind angles acute; the punctuation is fine, not dense, a 

 good deal more scanty on the disc, where the surface is perceptibly shining. The 

 elytra are but little explanate at the margins, and are remarkable on account of 

 their compai-atively fine sculpture, the punctures being quite small and shallow ; 

 the interstices are larger than the punctures, and they bear some excessively minute 

 sliiniiig slightly raised asperities or granules. The legs are rather long, the outer 

 angle of the front tibia not in the least spinose. The sculpture of the ventral seg- 

 ments is quite fine, but less effaced than it is in C. hnttoni. The meta.sternum in 

 the middle in front is slight convex or protuberant, and is punctate tliere. 



VVaikawa, in the extreme south of New Zealand. Prof. 

 Schauinsland, two specimens. 



I have specimens of a form allied to this, found at Manawatu, in 

 the South of the North Island. They appear to me to be nearer to 

 C. hnttoni than to C 7neridionalis, and I treat them at present as a 

 variety of the Otago species, G. hutto7ii. 



ZoRiON OPACUM, sp. nov. 



Fuseo-testaceum, supra suhmetallico-nitens, sericeo-suhopaciim ; antennis 

 pedibusqite testaceis, his femoribus hasi excepta rufo-ohscicris, illis fusco- 

 annulatis ; elytra singtdo ante medium fascia pallida transversa marginem 

 lateralem fere attingente. Long. 4 — 5 mm. 



Tliis comes very near to Z. miniitum, but is distinguished by the peculiar pallid 

 suffused colour, and the silky dullness of the surface. The thorax, instead of being 

 polished, is dull and covered with a slight sculpture— a soi't of minute wrinkling of 

 the surface. The elytra are rather longer than in the other species. 



Chatham Islands. Prof. Schauinsland, three specimens. 

 The British Museum collection includes a specimen of this s|)ecies 

 said to be from Otago. This locality I think very doubtful. 



Xtlotoles schauinslandi, sp. nov. 

 Fusro-rnfus, supra viridescens, nitidus, antennis pedihusqne rufis ; elytris 

 tricustatis, costis ad apicem fere ductis. interstitiis irregulariter interruptim 

 custatis. ' Long. 10 mm. 



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