Ol' NEW ZEALAND. 6 1 



Inform intermediate between T. hcemorrhoidalis, Dj., and T. globu- 

 lus, Dj. As convex as the latter, but much more slender, the thorax 

 especially being narrower (much narrower than the elytra), more cordi- 

 form, and the elytra more ovate and rounded at the shoulders. The 

 antennae are wanting in both my specimens. 



Auckland (?) (H. Edwards). 



Note. — The locality, most likely, is correct ; I found one example 

 on a moss-covered log near Whangarei. 



Group— LEBIID^. 



Ligiila soldered to its paraglossse ; the latter seldom longer than it. 

 Head of variable form, with a neck in many cases. First joint of the 

 antenmc of normal length. Prothorax generally transversal. Elytra 

 truncated at the extremity. Anterior tarsi very often similar in both 

 sexes, sometimes slightly expanded among the males ; their fourth joint 

 entire or bilobed ; their claws simple or pectinate. Body usually very 

 much depressed. 



Actenonyx. 



White : Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 2. 



Head nearly as wide as the thorax, with large but not very promi- 

 nent eyes ; antennce longish, with oblong joints ; thorax nearly as wide 

 as long, straightish in front, and behind, where it is slightly narrowed ; 

 elytra very wide and depressed, obliquely truncated at the end ; tarsi 

 with claws slender and not serrated ; a genus in form approaching 

 Calleida. 



120. A. bembidioides, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Jus., /. 2. 

 Entirely bronzed ; head and thorax greenish ; elytra with longitudinal 

 shallow strise ; some of the strise near the suture with two or three 

 punctures ; sides of head striated, in the middle quite smooth ; two or 

 three short rufescent hairs above the eyes ; thorax finely striated on the 

 sides of the groove. 



Length, 4 lines. 



New Zealand. 



Note. — Such is the description given of this insect ! 1 The follow- 

 ing copy of the description of Sphallax pcryphoidcs by Mr. Bates, was 

 sent to me by Professor Hutton ; it was copied by him from the Ent. 

 Man. Mag., iv.,/. 56, 1867. 



Sphallax peryphoides. Bates. 



S. depressus, aeneo-obscurus, glaber, supra subtiliter alutaceus, vix 

 nitidus ; capite prope oculos rugoso \ thorace anguste marginato, supra 

 longitudinaliter sulcato, transversim strigoso ; angulis rotundatis ; elytris 

 latis, depressis, striatis, striis latis minime profundis 2^° bi-, 3'''° uni- 

 foveolata; stria scutellari distincta. 



Long., z\ lin. ^ ? . 



