4 COLEOPTERA 



Note. — Mr. Bates states (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 1874^1, that 

 the figure {Giih: Mag. de ZooL, 1840, //. xlv.) represents an elongate 

 sj)ecies evidently of the '' tuberculata " group, a little shorter than C. 

 tiiberciilata (ri millims = 5 lines). It is distinguished at once by the 

 apical white lunule of the elytra being represented by a sub-apical spot. 



The locality " New Zealand" given to this species rests on the 

 assurance of a dealer, who was told by the surgeon of a whaling ship 

 that it was taken there. I have seen no specimen of it. 



6. C. parryi, IVIa'te, Voy. El'. Terr., Ins., p. i. Obscure bronze; 

 elytra with a slight isolated lunule on the basal edge of a pale yellow, 

 with many brown dots, a widish line on the margin next to this, 

 from the front of which a sharpish spot directed backwards does not 

 nearly attain the suture. This, and a wide straightish spot at the end of 

 the elytra are pale yellow, thickly dotted with brown, rest of elytra of a 

 bronzy hue, very much pustuled, with many largish, irregularly placed 

 greenish spots, and two deep velvet-like, somewhat sagittate marks near 

 the suture ; scutellum large, with the sides rounded, antennce with the 

 first joint green, the other joints ferruginous, from the 2nd to the 4th 

 paler ; head narrowish ; thorax with the two lobes forming upper part 

 not so distinct as in C. tiihereiilata, tibife and tarsi paler than in C. 

 tuberculata ; the elytra also are wider and less long than in that species. 



Length, 5 — 5I lines. 



Port Nicholson (Capt. Parry). 



Note. — I found a specimen at Tairua. (T.B.) 



7. C. dunedinensis, Castelnau ,- Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 

 1867, vol. viii., /. 35. Small, light brown; labrum and base of the 

 mandibulse white ; elytra covered with punctures of a green copper 

 colour; a sinuate line of large punctures follows the suture; a rather 

 broad marginal band (white) extends along the exterior margin, and 

 sends forth a short lunule behind the anillary angle, an oblique band 

 that almost reaches the suture, and an apical lunule. Below and legs 

 bright copper ; abdomen black. 



Length, 4'"; breadth, \}{'. 



8. C. feredayi, Bates ; Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. 4, /. 53, 1867. 

 C. oblonga, sub-depressa, supra opaca, viridi-obscura; labro curto, albo 

 medio triangulariter producto, dente mediana valida instructo, angulis la- 

 teralibus rotundatis ; thorace transverse, opaco, lateribus valde rotundatis, 

 sulcis antice posticeoque profundis ; elytris apice dehiscentibus supra 

 tequaliter hand profunde punctatis, lunula magna humerali, marginibus 

 lateralibus vitta mediana obliqua angulata (cum margine connexa) et 

 lunula apicali, albis. 



Long., 5 lin. %. 



Collected by Mr. R. W. Fereday, Christchurch. 



9- C perllispida, //• j'. Labrum transverse, somewhat rounded, 

 and not at all acute or produced in the middle, with a slight, 

 oblicjue sinuation towards the rounded lateral angle ; it is cream- 



