52 [August, 
superior et elytrorum margo exterior alba." Fabricius' description, I. c, 
also agrees, except that be says, " Thorax niger in altero sexu margine 
rufo, in altero immaculate ;" but this may be correct if both sexes were 
examined. Pallen's description is exact. Burmeister puts the insect 
as a var. of Ph. gothicus. Flor merely says that he has not found " the 
variety alhomarginatus, Fabr., Fall." Fieber quotes the foregoing names 
of Linne, Fabricius, and Fallen for his var. B of Lopus gothicus, but his 
description does not accord with our insect, for he says, " Sides of the 
pronotum only in front with a whitish streak, only the point of the 
scutellum orange." It appears to us that our insect possesses sufficient 
characters to constitute a distinct species. 
We have never met with the species ; but Mr. Dale has two or 
three examples, taken by himself at Middlemarsh "Wood, near Gj-lanvilles 
Wootton, Dorset, early in July. 
Species 2. — Lopus flavomaeginatus. 
CiMEx FLAVOMARGHSTATUS, Donov., Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. vii., 79, pi. 
245 (1798). 
Lopus miles, Doug. Sf Scott, Brit. Hem. 476, 2, pi. 15, fig. 7 (1865). 
The species described by us, I. c, is, without doubt, that described 
and figured by Donovan ; for although his description is accurate as far 
as it goes, it omits all mention of the yellow streaks on the head, and 
the rings on the thighs and tibiae ; yet, as the omissions are made up 
by the figure, in which all these marks are represented, Donovan's name 
must be substituted for ours. 
(To he continued.) 
NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS FROM THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, 
NEW ZEALAND, COLLECTED BY R. W. FEREDAY, ESQ. 
BY n. W. BATES, F.Z.S. 
So little is at present known of the Insect Fauna of New Zealand, 
that Entomologists have reason to feel greatly indebted to Mr. Fereday, 
formerly well known as a British collector, who, being now resident near 
Christchurch, in the Middle Island, is devoting his leisure hours to the 
observation of insects of all orders in his neighbourhood, aud has sent 
home two very interesting collections to his old friends Messrs. Lynch 
and Knaggs, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of examining 
them. They consist of a set of Goleoptera preserved in spirits, and a 
Beries of nearly all orders pinned, and in remarkably fine condition. 
