fil 



Elytra Bnbquadrate, rather narrower, not longer tlian the bead and thorax, attenu- 

 ated posteriorly in the males, closely l>ut not deeply asperated in regular • 



. stremities broad, slightly rounded 

 and pi 



n moderately exserted, minutely bidentate at the apex. 



■ . bright yellow, basal joint of the anterior tarsi dilated in the male. 

 Under ]"irt.< black, with the coxa yellow, and the mouth and extremity of the venter 

 piceous, metasternnm rather deeply asperated. 



from / . anthracina in its smaller size, closer and much smaller tubercles of 

 tin thorax, and paler antennae. 



Habitat, Australasia. Found plentifully in New Zealand by Mr. Lawson. The 

 females are more oblong in form, and their thorax is scarcely dilated 

 the base. 



Trichopteryx glauca. 



1 . llauca, Matthews, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 131, 1>S4 ; Biol. Cent. -Amer. 



Col. ii. pt. i. p. 137, 1888. 



L. c. ,'';., liu. = (C75 mm. — Suboblonga, sat brevis, convexa, maribus postice 

 attenuata, fusco-eastanea, pilis brevibns, glaucis, valde sericeis, dense v< - 

 magno, lato, antice rotondato, sat m fcuberculato; oculis modicis, hand 



prominent ihus : pronoto sat magno, capite longiori et latiori, maribus lila- 



tato atque ad basim latissimo, fcemineis ante basim latissimo, tuberculis ordin 

 sim: fertirn dispositis. interstitiisque latis, nitiiiis ornato, lateribus leviter 



rotundatis, et leviter marginatis, margine basali plus minusve sinuata, angulis 

 acutis, in maribus valde prod uctis ; el - iqnadratis, maribus postice attenu; 



capite atque pronoto parum angus niter longis, confertim as 



lateribus fere recti.-, apicibns latis, leviter rotundatis, dilutioribus, extremis albi 

 abdomine longius exserto, ferrugineo, apice bidentato ; pedibus robustis, nV 

 antennis gracilibus, flavis. 



/.' dy suboblong, rather short, convex, attenuated posteriorly in the males, fusco- 

 castaneous, thickly covered with ver;. ahort glaucous hair. 



// 1 largi and broad, rounded in front, rather closely tuberculate; eyes moderate, 

 not prominent : antennae -lender, yellow. 



rather large, longer and broader than the head, dilated posteriorly, and 

 widest at the base in the males, widest before the base in the females, 

 ornamented with close tubercles in sinuated rows, with the into - 

 and shining, sides slightly rounded and slightly margined, basal margin more 

 or less sinuated. with the angles acute, and much produced in the mal 



5 '.'limn large, triangular, deeply and closely asperat* 



Klu - oadrate, attenuate d posteriorly in the males, rather narrower, not lor 

 than the head and thorax, deeply and verj 

 straight, extremil slightly roundi . with th< hite. 



Abdomen rather long, ferruginous, bidentate at the apex. 



/. rs robust, yell 



uneous, with the mouth and coxae yellow. 

 from other Bpecies in size and form, rufescent colour, slender antenn;e, close 

 sculpture, and especially in aucous pube- 



Habitai, Central America. Found near Bugaba, Panama, by Mr. Champion. 



There is so much difference in the outline of tl 

 species that the female, if Been alone, m 

 group, in which the posterior angles of the thorax are not produ 



