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90. A. piceus, Blanch.; Voy. an Pole Sud, ZooL, iv., f>. 28., 1853. 

 Pitchy-black, shining ; head bifoveolate in front ; antennas and palpi 

 ferruginous ; prothorax grooved on the middle and base ; elytra ovate, 

 striate ; tarsi reddish-brown. 



Proportionally narrower than the preceding, of a rather shining 

 brownish-black. Head smooth, shining, with two large excavations in 

 front ; antenna ferruginous, shining, with their last joints slightly hairy. 

 Prothorax a little convex, slightly narrowed behind, but little longer than 

 broad, smooth above, only having a median groove, and on each side at 

 the base a short groove that is deeper than that on the middle. Elytra 

 oval, evidently convex, with the humeral angles projecting, and with 

 well-marked striation near the suture, but nearly effaced near the lateral 

 margins ; these strise present some traces of punctures ; the interstices 

 smooth and but little convex. Tarsi wholly ferruginous-brown. 



Length, 6 mil. 



Akaroa, New Zealand. 



Molopsida. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr.., Ins.., p. 6. 



Head large ; last joint of palpi sharp-pointed ; antenncz with the 

 joints somewhat moniliform and bristly ; thorax without margin, much 

 wider behind than in front, sides considerably rounded, behind quite 

 straight, the posterior angles nearly rectangular ; elytra ovate, truncated 

 in front, considerably convex. 



91. M. polita, White. Deep, shining black; elytra \^\^ longitu- 

 dinal rows of shallow strife rather closely punctured, the margin with 

 two deep grooves connected in many places by short, transverse grooves ; 

 antennte and palpi ferruginous ; legs deep rufous. 



Waikouaiti (Mr. Earl). 



Note. — I think this species might be erased from the list with 

 advantage, in fact all whose measurements are not given should be 

 dealt with in that way. 



Alogus. 



Motsch.; Bull. Soc. Lnp. Mosc., 38, ii.,245, 1865. 



A Feronian without minute striiB on the base of the elytra, but with 

 a cordate prothorax marked on each side of the base witli a deep 

 groove, and with a little one towards the posterior angle. Prosterniini 

 without a distinct margin. Indentation of the mentuni furnished with a 

 broad tooth a little projecting, rounded off and margined. Third joint 

 of the a?itennce as long as the first, glabrous, the four following pubes- 

 cent and equal. Last joint of the /(?/^/ almost cylindrical and broadly 

 truncate. The seventh, eighth and ninth striae of the elytra crenulated 

 at the bottom, the eighth in addition marked with some large punctures, 

 the extremity a little sinuated. 



General form of Oinaseus, but broader. The episterna, behind, a 

 little longer than broad. 



