54 I Augus'. 
albo, medio triane;ulai'iter producto, dente tnediana valida instructo, 
angulis lateralibus rotuudatis : thorace transverso, opaco, lateribus 
valde rotundatis, sulcis antieo posticoque profundis ; elytris apice 
dehiscentibus, supra sequaliter baud profunde punctatis, lunula magna 
humerali, marginibus lateralibus, vitta mediana obliqua angulata (cum 
margine connexa) et lunula apicali, albis. Long. 5-lin. $ . 
This very interesting new species is not closely allied to any other 
at present known, and it belongs to quite a different group from tbe 
rest of the described species from New Zealand, being nearer the 
European C. litterata and its allies. The transverse-oval thorax, with 
its very broad, deep sulci, gives it a peculiar appearance. The body is 
depressed above ; the elytra have rectangular humeral angles, and are 
gradually widened beyond the middle ; they are singly rounded at the 
tip and gaping at the suture, the raised sutural margins terminating in 
a spine some distance from the apex. The head is but little depressed 
between the eyes, and very finely strigose, the striae not being more 
conspicuous near the eyes, as is usual in the genus Cicindela. The 
thorax is apparently impuuctate, but with a powerful lens it appears very 
finely strigose ; the sides are regularly and strongly rounded. The 
elytra have an even surface, and are regularly and not very closely 
covered with shallow punctures ; the white lateral margin is of regular 
width, except near the lower curve of the humeral lunule, where it is 
very narrow ; the apical lunule forms part of it, its upper curve only 
being visible as a triangular projection from the white border; the 
central vitta is wide at its commencement on the border ; it runs 
obliquely as a tliiu line to the middle of the elytron, and then bends at 
an obtuse angle, and runs nearly parallel to the suture for some 
distance down the disc. The under surface is blueish-black ; legs and 
coxse, and four basal joints of the antennae, brassy -green. The head in 
front, and the basal joints of the antennae, have a few distinct 
punctures. The legs are moderately slender, and of pretty nearly the 
same proportions as in C. litterata. 
One example. 
Ceeatognathus alboguttatus, n. sp. {Lucanidce). 
C. parvus, ovatus sub-depressus, brunneo-obscurus, thoracis 
lateribus late rufesceuti-brunneis, elytris maculis nonnullis albis e 
squamulis longioribus formatis. Long. 3|-lin. ^ . 
One of the smallest species of the stag-beetle family. The 
mandibles are only one-half the length of the head, very broad or 
