12 [Juno, 



reef is acutis, posticis acutiuscule extantibus, tihique nodulis setosis plu- 

 rimis instructo ; elytris nodidis plurimis (circa \0, utrinque) magiiis 

 suh-calvis inridescentihus ornatis, et hinc inde {prcesertim versus latcra 

 et in medio) squamis nigris suhmaculato-decoratis, aliisque fulvescentihus 

 adspersis, suturd depressiore et magis ferrugined ; antennis pedihusque 

 gracilihus, rufo-ferriigineis, clavd tihiisque ad basin necnon in annulo 

 cenfrali nigrescentiorihus. Long. corp. lin. If. 



Sahitat in Nova Zealandid, ah Auckland a Dom. Lawson missa. 



The beautiful and very extraordinary green nodules with which 

 the elytra of this species are decorated, added to its confusedly ornate 

 surface — which is besprinkled with fulvescent, brownish, and (on the 

 elytra) deep black setae, — will suffice readily to distinguish it. Apart 

 from the irregularity of the expanded edges, its prothorax is somewhat 

 quadrate (being, if anything, less narrowed before than posteriorly ; 

 but its sides are deeply excavated, or scooped out, in the centre, and 

 they are likewise either undulated or serrated both in front of and 

 behind the emargination. Its prothorax also is crowded with tufts 

 of short bristles, which seem to mark the presence of small and 

 ill-defined humps, or nodes, beneath. 



G-enus TaEPHIOMIMUS, nov. gen. 



Corpus et Cfetera fere ut in Tarphiomimete, sed illud magis nodiiloso-rugosura 

 et etiam densius sublutoso-squamosum, necnon in limbo grossius profundiusque eroso- 

 indentatum ; prothorace sub-lunulato, sed ad latera valdc profiinde 3-inciso, partibus 

 inter fissuras lobiformibus ac minute irregulariter sub-tripartitis ; abdomine subtus 

 valde deplanato ; tibiis crassioribus ac subter squamis grosse muricatis, ad apicem 

 externum oblique truncatis ; tarsoruraque articulo l^io multo majore crassiore, 

 subtus magis producto et magis piloso. 



[Obs. — Gren. JSndopMoRo valde affinis, sed antennarum articulo 3tio longiore 

 clavaquo majore, multo magis abrupto, et distiuctissime 3-articulato ; corpore in 

 limbo, prfEsertim prothorace, multo profundius indentato-eroso ; elytris ad apicem 

 singulatim divaricatis ; tibiis grosse muricatis ; tarsorumque articulo l^^o multo 

 majore crassiore, subtus scilicet magis producto. A Tarphio discedit, inter alia, clava 

 3-, nee 2-articulata, scutello conspicuo, coxisque multo magis approximatis.] 



A ' TarpJiius' et ' 3Iimus,' imitator. 



Although so closely allied to EndojjJ/Jceiis, tlie t^^pe of this genus 

 is, in some respects, one of the most extraordinary insects I have ever 

 examined, the laterally indented structure of the prothorax, which is 

 so strongly indicated in that group, and in Tarphiomimetes, being here 

 exaggerated to such a marvellous extent, as to cause the prothorax to 

 be cleft into four separate divisions (or lobes) on either side ; each 

 lobe, except the hindermost one, being itself obtusely bifid, or even 



