22 [June, 



NEW SPECIES OF aEODEPIIAaOUS COLHOPTERA FROM NEW 



ZEALAND. 



BY H. W. BATES, F.L.S. 



lu tlie paper on the Greodepbagoua Coleoptera of ISTew Zealand, 

 which I published in 187^;, eighty-nine species were catalogued as be- 

 longing to the islands. To this number must be added three species 

 described by Captain Broun in the Trans, of the New Zealand Institute, 

 nine species by myself in Entom. Monthly Mag., Jan. and Feb , 1878 

 (Vol. xiv, pp. 191 — 198), and eighteen in the following pages, making, 

 in all, one hundred and nineteen species now known as belonging to 

 the New Zealand Fauna in this department. 



CiCINDELA AUSTEOMONTAIS'A, n. Sp. 

 Ohlonga, supra saturate olivacea, opaca, suhtilissime sculpturata,fere Icevls ; 

 elytris lunula hunierali,fasciaque brevi mediana vix cnrvata, per marginem cum lunu- 

 la apicali connexa, albis : labro valde transversa, niargine antico fere recto, medio 

 tridentato ; capite stibtilissime strigoso ; thorace lateribus rotundato, postice magis 

 quam antice angustato : eli/tris apice rotundatls, suturd spinosa, dorso cequaliier 



subtilissime granulatis : corpore subtus feinoribusque ceneis, sparsim albopilosis. 



Long. 5 lin., $ . 



Closely allied to C. Feredayi, from which it may be distinguished 

 by the form of the anterior edge of the labrum. This, in the ^ of 

 C. Feredayi, is angularly produced in the middle, and ends in a stout 

 tooth ; but in the same sex of C. austromontana, it is not produced, 

 forming in the middle a sharp tooth with a more obtuse one on each 

 side. Besides this definite structural character, the new species differs 

 in being more parallel- sided, duller in colour, and in the sculpture of 

 the elytra consisting of granules instead of punctures. The usual row 

 of large green punctures is not visible. The white markings are not 

 very different ; but the white margin is interrupted at the end of the 

 humeral lunule, and the median belt is not bent and prolonged pos- 

 teriorly. The forehead and thorax have a few long white hairs. 



Castle Hill, Eastern slope of New Zealand Alps, Canterbury (C. 

 M. Wakefield) ; two examples. 



Phtsoljesthus insularis. 



Oblo7igus, subdepressus, piceo-niger, elytris tlioraceque marginibus rufescentibus, 

 capite thoraceque subopacis, illo antice late concave ; thorace transversim quadrate 

 postice modice angustato, angulis obtusis, ibique niargine elevato,margine postico late 

 rotundato ; elytris politis, striatis, interstitiis convexis. Long. 2^ lin. 



Considerably smaller than either of the Australian species already 

 described of this genus ; but agreeing in almost every other respect 



