g [June, 



Allied to F. Manillarum, but narrower, with less punctures on the thorax, and 

 the ocular canthus rounded. Head Jalmosfc invisibly and sparingly punctured ; 

 forehead concave with an obtuse tubercle on each side ; the ocular canthus rounded. 

 The thorax is convex, shining ; the disc sparingly and extremely delicately 

 punctured, towards the sides moderately thickly and strongly punctured, with a 

 strongly punctured impression in the middle, and on each side there is a shallow 

 impression among the lateral punctuation ; the anterior angles are very slightly 

 prominent and obtuse ; the sides are nearly parallel, only very slightly narrowed 

 posteriorly ; the hind angles are rounded. Elytra a trifle narrower than, and twice 

 as long as, the thorax, the stria? are nine in number, the second to sixth are strongly 

 impressed (except at the extreme apex), the fifth and sixth only visibly punctured, 

 the interstices are gently convex, moderately thickly but not strongly punctured ; 

 the seventh to ninth striae are scarcely impressed, distinctly but not very thickly 

 punctured. 



Hah. New South Wales. Coll. Major Parry. 



5. MiTOPHTLLUS MAEMOEATUS, Sp. 11. 



Niger, hrunneo-variegattis, plumheo-micans, squamidis fiavis inar- 

 moratus ; tliorace laterihus pone medium angulatis, dein leviter emargi- 

 natis, angulis posticis rectis. ElytHs fortiter irregulariter punctatis. 



Long. 7 lin. 



Closely resembles M. Parrianus, but easily separated from it by its being more 

 convex than that species, and by the sides of the thorax behind the middle being 

 gently emarginate, thus making the posterior angles rectangular. The thorax is 

 thickly and very strongly punctured, with three smooth spots, two on the disc and 

 one in the middle of the posterior margin ; the anterior angles are very slightly 

 prominent, the sides are strongly angular rather behind the middle. The elytra are 

 scarcely broader than the widest part of the thorax, conjointly rounded at the apex, 

 the punctuation is very strong and moderately close, but somewhat irregular ; the 

 yellowish scales, with which the insect is more or less covered, are shorter and broader 

 than those in the allied species, and appear to be confined to the brown portions of 

 the insect, leaving the blacker parts bare. 



The male has the mandibles black, swollen at the base, with a deep reddish 

 impression above, furnished also above near the apex with a strong tooth. The head 

 is straight in front, with a strong tubercular projection in front of the eyes. In the fe- 

 male, the head is longer and narrower, tlie eyes are smaller and less prominent, and the 

 projection in front of the eyes is much less. The mandibles are much more straight 

 and simple, the apices very acute, and tlie tubercle above is very small and acute. 



Hab. New Zealand. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



British Museum : May 7th, 1874. 



