:j2 •'"'>■• 



Family LTG^ID.E. 



15. Lygceus (Spilostethus) paciflcus, Boisd. This I Lave not seen. It 



occurs also in Tasmania and Australia. 



16. Arocattis riiJicoUis (= Lygceus rujtcollis, Walker). 



Though the description of Lygceus ruficollis, Wlk. (which Mr. 

 Butler I. c. says is "not a Lygceus''''), does not altogether tally with 

 my specimens, I have little doubt but that they belong to that species. 

 The type specimen is evidently (from the description) a dark example, 

 for usually the red markings are much more extensive, the clavus and 

 interior and apical margins of the corium, as well as the apex of the 

 scutellum and base of the pronotum, being generally of that colour. It 

 is allied to A. rusticus, Stal, an Australian species. 



Common. Messrs. Broun, Hutton, and Wakefield. 



17. Nysiiis zealmidicus, Dallas. " " 



The teeth on the hind margin of the pronotum are often nearly 

 or quite obsolete. 



Common. Messrs. Broun, Hutton, and Wakefield. 



18. N. Huttoni, n. sp. 



Obovate, greyish -testaceous, with grey liubeseence and coarse fuscous punctures ; 

 head rather finely punctate, black, the vertex and the antennae reddish-brown, the 

 outside of the 1st joint of the antennae, the 2nd and 3rd towards the apex, and the 

 4th darker ; pronotum with a transverse band near the front margin, a central lon- 

 gitudinal band abbreviated before and behind, the sides, and some spots within 

 the hind angles, irregularly black, as is almost all the scutellum except the extreme 

 apex. Elytra streaked more or less with black, the extreme front margin and three 

 spots more or less confluent on the apical margin, always fuscous-black ; membrane 

 whitish, spotted with fuscous at the base ; legs yellow-testaceous, spotted (especially 

 the femora) and punctured with black ; the 1st and 2nd joints of the tarsi at the 

 base, and the whole of the 3rd, fuscous-black ; body below black marked with 

 yellow. Head sub-equal in length to the pronotum, and with the eyes somewhat 

 broader than the apex of the latter ; the bucculae not reaching the base of the head, 

 si^arcely decreasing in height backwards and suddenly ending, about equal to the 1st 

 joint of the rostrum ; rostrum reaching the hind coxae ; 1st joint of the antennae 

 much, and the 2nd a little, longer than the 3rd. Scutellum with a triradiate eleva- 

 tion in the middle. Elytra sub-parallel at the base, then dilated and reflexed along 

 the front margin. c? ? . Length, 3i — 4 mm. ; breadth. If mm. 



In the structure of the bucculse, iV! Huttoni is allied to N. margi- 

 nalis, Dall. It is also allied to N. thymi, Wolff, and N. coenosulus, 

 Stal ; but it is broader than the first, and differs Irom the second by 

 the shape of the bucculte, pronotum, &c. It varies somewhat in the 

 intensity of the dark markings. 



Messrs. Hutton and Wakefield. 



