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sinuated towards the tip, and the apices are divergent, and individually 

 rounded ; each bears six broad discoidal, and three less distinct, lateral 

 striae, which are not very distinctly punctured ; the interstices are 

 convex and impunctate, the fifth insulated, and the marginal one with a 

 row of large punctures. The legs are long and slender ; the front tarsi 

 with oblong articulations, having their basal angles somewhat rounded, 

 and with sponge-like soles ; all the tarsi are more or less superficially 

 grooved. 



Length, 5 lines. 



I found this insect rather common at Whangarei Heads. 



44. A. batesi, )i.s. This large species is of a shining black 

 colour, with piceous legs, the palpi, tarsi, and basal joints of the antennae 

 pitchy-red, and the rest of the antennae of a paler red, and clothed with 

 bright yellow pubescence. Head large and elongate, not so wide but 

 nearly as long, as the thorax ; it is smooth, with indistinct frontal foveas, 

 and a fine transverse line between the antennae, a rounded puncture 

 near each end of this line, and two or three similar ones near each eye ; 

 labrum rather large, its apex truncate. The prothorax is sub-cordate, 

 relatively small and narrow, widest in front of the middle, rounded 

 anteriorly, and narrowed behind ; the base and apex are slightly emar- 

 ginate, the hind angles obliquely obtuse ; the sides are explanated and 

 reflexed ; the disc has a dorsal furrow, ending in angular impressions, 

 and, owing to the very wide, concave, marginal spaces, is of a well- 

 defined, elongate-cordate shape \ the surface bears a few transverse, 

 aciculate impressions. Elytra convex, broad, almost ovate, base slightly 

 bisinuated, sides rounded, and obliquely sinuated posteriorly, the apices 

 with the rather narrow extremity truncate ; each bears an abbreviated 

 scutellar, seven discoidal, and two marginal, striae, which are sharply 

 defined, and not perceptibly punctulate ; the interstices are rather flat, 

 the third with three punctures (in one of my two specimens only two) ; 

 the third and fourth, and fifth and sixth stria3 become confluent behind; 

 the lateral margins are reflexed, and there is a row of punctures along 

 the sides. Legs long ; the front tarsi have three oblong joints, the 

 second and third narrowed behind, so that their form is somewhat elon- 

 gate-triangular ; all the tarsi are superficially grooved and carinated, with 

 a piceous spot near the apex of each joint, and densely hispid soles. 



Length, 7-8 lines ; greatest breadth, 3 lines. 



I found two specimens of this remarkably fine species near Whan- 

 garei Heads, and have much pleasure in dedicating it in honour of Mr. 

 W. H. Bates, who has greatly assisted New Zealand entomologists. 



It somewhat resembles the European A. complanatus, but has a 

 larger thorax, and the sutural apices of the elytra, owing to the deeper 

 sinuation at each side, are more produced. 



45. A. elevatUS, White ; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 3. Head in 

 front, with a very obscure impression on one side ; antenme and palpi 

 ferruginous ; thorax with a deepish groove down the middle, not reach- 

 ing the fore or hind margin ; the side margin hollowed out, and a 



