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The elytra arc gently rouiKled at tlic base; the shoulders are 

 distinct, but very blunt. 

 Eight examples. 



Agonelttea bretis, sp. n. 



Nigra, renescens, parce viridi-grisco-pubescens. Rostro eupra 

 longitudiiialiter leviter impresso. Thorace longitudino baud latiori, 

 eonvexo, antice posticeque angustato, lateribus bene rotundatis. 

 Elytris basi thorace f latioribus, 2.V longioribus, ad medium gradatim 

 ampliatid, apicem versus angustatis ; convexis, eat fortiter punctato- 

 striatis, interstitiisplaniusculis. Antennis piccis ; clava magna, nigres- 

 centi. Pedibus uigresccutibus, femoribus basi tibiisque intus piceis. 



Long. 2j lin., lat. 1 lin. 



A single specimen only. 



British Musciun : July 2nd, 1875. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LOXaiCORN COLEOPTERA 

 FROM NEW ZEALAND. 



BY D. SIIAEP, M.B. 



ZOEIOJf BaTESI, 71. sp. 



Nitidum, Icete violaceum, antennis ajnce fuscis, arfic7iJis S G Ir/si 

 alfudis ; cli/fris disco singulo macula alhida parva ; pedihus elongatis, 

 fusco-violaccis^femorihus basi albidis, colorihus ahruptc designatis. 



Long. carp, vix 3 lin. 



Closely allied to Zorion minutum and apparently differing there- 

 from only by the colour, and the more elongate form, tlie legs and 

 antenna; being notably longer than in the red Z. minutum. The size 

 of the spot found on the elytron differs in the two specimens before 

 me, it being in one of them so small as to lead me to believe that in 

 some individuals of the species it may altogether disappear. 



Two specimens sent from Auckland, N. Zealand, by Mr. F. Lawson, 

 are all that have yet been received. A more elegant little crealure it 

 would be difficult to imagine, and I have great pleasure in naming it 

 after Mr. 11. W. Bates, who has recently systomatised and greatly 

 added to our knowledge of the New Zealand Longicoru Coleoptera. 

 One of the individuals above described is now in Mr. Bates', the otber 

 in Mr. 11. Lawson's, collection. 



Thoriihill, Dumfries : 



May 2,^th, 1875. 



