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first and second stride. The margins of tlie ventral segments are more 

 or less fulvous. One example from New Zealand, obtained from the 

 late Rev. Hamlet Clark's collection. 



Note. — -I found two or three individuals at Tairua, and a few others 

 near Whangarei Harbour, but I have not seen any specimens from the 

 south. 



96. L. insig'IlitUS, n.s. Body convex, elongate-oval, of a moder- 

 ately shining brownish-black ; the thoracic and elytral margins, apex of 

 elytra, legs, and antennae fusco-rufous ; palpi and tarsi rufo-testaceous. 

 Head relatively small but elongate, with rather large mandibles, and 

 transverse labrum ; it has two ill-defined frontal foveee united by a 

 transverse line ; terminal joints of palpi acuminate. Prothorax rather 

 convex, sub-quadrate, somewhat transverse, with rounded sides, not 

 quite so much narrowed behind as in front, and not sinuated poste- 

 riorly, the hind angles rounded ; the apex is slightly emarginate, the 

 base is quite truncate in the middle, but rounded and more prominent 

 beyond ; it has an almost imperceptible dorsal line, an indistinct impres- 

 sion near the base, the basal foveae are not very obvious, and are 

 situated very near the sides, and the disc is very feebly strigose. 

 ScuteUiim triangular. Elytra convex, especially behind, a little depressed 

 at each side of the scutellum, with rounded, not prominent, humeral 

 angles ; the sides are regularly and slightly rounded, being but little 

 dilated behind, and not very strongly sinuated posteriorly, with the apex 

 a little produced ; they bear fine impunctate stria, the intervals are a 

 little convex ; there is one puncture on the third interstice, a row near 

 the margin, and one near each side of the scutellum ; only the first, 

 second, third, and eighth interstices reach the apex. The femora 

 are inflated ; the front tibm a good deal incrassated towards the 

 apex, the posterior longer and more flexuose than the intermediate. 

 The anterior tarsi are remarkable : in L. latiinam/s, the second joint of 

 the male tarsi is not twice the width of the first ; but in this species, 

 the second and third are three times as wide as the obconical basal 

 joint, and the fourth is about twice as broad as the first, and hollowed 

 for the apical joint ; the intermediate tarsi are moderately expanded, 

 the posterior of the usual form ; the terminal joints of the two hinder 

 pairs of tarsi are elongate, a good deal dilated at the apex, and, parti- 

 cularly the posterior, furnished with very large claws. The terminal 

 spines of the tibice. especially those of the front pair, are stout, and the 

 two hind pairs bear rows of spine-like bristles. Antemm broken off. 



Length 3^ lines, breadth nearly \\. 



I found my specimen, a male,atParua forest, near Whangarei Harbour. 



97. L. ObesUlUS, Bates; Entom. Man. Mag., June, 1878, 

 p. 23. Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, subsneo-niger, nitidus, antennis basi, 

 palpis, tibiis (apice piceo excepto) tarsisque apice rufotestaceis ; mar- 

 ginibus inflectis thoracis et elytrorum plus minusve rufescentibus ; 

 thorace transversim quadrato, lateribus rotundatis, angulis posticis fere 

 nullis, foveis basalibus sparsim grosse punctatis ; elytris striatis, inter- 

 stitiis paulo convexis, apice leviter sinuatis. 



