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laxly articulated club. Prothorax of the width of the elytra, emarginated 

 in front, more or less widely margined laterally. Scutdlum rather 

 large. Elytra truncated behind, exposing a portion ot the pygidium. 

 Les^s more or less robust, the intermediate, and sometimes the posterior, 

 contiguous ; the three first joints of the tarsi very short, dilated, hairy 

 underneath ; claws simple. A small supplementary abdominal segment 

 among the males. Prosternal process not projecting. 



302. E. antarctica, White; Voy.Er. Terr., Ins., p. 8. Oviform, 

 very slightly convex, of a shining pitchy-brown colour, with the sides of 

 the thorax, apex of the elytra, and a spot on each side of the scutellum, 

 testaceous, antennas infuscate, legs testaceous ; the body is finely 

 sculptured, and bears a few yellow hairs. 



The head is indistinctly impressed between the eyes ; the prothorax 

 is broader than long, with margined, explanated sides, emarginate at 

 apex, truncate at the base, the sides from the middle to the almost acute 

 anterior angles are straight, though gradually narrowed, and are again 

 narrowed posteriorly ; scutellum broad, triangular, rounded behind ; 

 elytra a little wider than thorax, with rather broad rims, rounded, and 

 narrowed to the apex, which completely covers the abdomen. 



Length, i|; breadth, § line. 



This I believe to be White's species, at all events I know of no other 

 similar form. The above description is derived from specimens in my 

 own collection, which I found at Tairua under the bark of Kauri (not 

 Kaudi as White states) logs. Dr. Sharp states the female is remarkable 

 for the produced elytra. 



303. E. zealandica, Sharp; Entom. Mon. Mag., July, 1878,/. 

 48. Latiuscula, testaceo-ferruginea, supra prothoracis disco elytrisque 

 plus minusve infuscatis ; crebrius evidenter punctata ; prothoracis ely- 

 trorumque lateribus sat explanatis, his apice in utroque sexu rotundato. 



Long., 3 mm. ; lat., il^ mm. 



This species is intermediate in form between E. deleta and E. 

 limbata, Er., and is about the size of the latter. The club of the 

 antennse is elongate. The lahrum is elongate, but is deeply divided 

 nearly to its base. The thorax is shaped much as in E. deleta, but the 

 sides are more explanate, and the base on each side is more sinuate, the 

 surface is uneven on account of some obsolete impressions. 



Sent from Tairua by Captain Broun. 



Obs. — This species is evidently variable in colour, it has not only 

 the appearance of our European species of Epura;a, but I can detect no 

 structural character whatever to distinguish it. The male\s distinguished 

 from the female by the broad front tarsi, and the additional minute 

 apical segment. 



304. E. signatum, n.s. Oblong-oval, sub-depressed, moderately 

 shining, of a smoky-brown colour variegated with testaceous ; the sides 

 and a spot at the base of the thorax, the lateral margins, two elongate 

 basal spots, and two J-shaped marks on the elytra, one on each near the 



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