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forehead plane, oblique, Insinuated. Antennal grooves very short and 

 deep. Anteniice short, first joint stout, joints two to eight very short, 

 compact and equal, joints nine to eleven forming a rather large, almost 

 perfoliated club. Eyes large, oblique, depressed, widely hollowed 

 behind. Prothorax transversal, widely and strongly emarginated in 

 front, rounded and marginated laterally, narrowed posteriorly, and trun- 

 cated at its base. Elyh'a elongate, parallel. Legs short, moderately 

 robust ; tibice (anterior) with robust terminal spurs and a little arcuated. 

 Body oblong, depressed, covered above with scales, and rather pilose 

 beneath. 



315. L. nigrosparsa, White : Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 17. Deep 

 bronzy greenish-black ; the elytra nearly covered with grey scales, with 

 several black spots ; liead between the eyes with a deepish depression, 

 and a notch in front of it, above rather deeply punctured, some of the 

 punctures elongated, behind and over the eyes a row of grey scales ; 

 thorax with two longitudinal furrows down the middle, which are punc- 

 tured and slightly squamose, the sides hollowed out above and thickly 

 punctured, the punctures filled with grey scales, middle of thorax quite 

 smooth ; each of the e/ytra with seven longitudinal ridges, the sides of 

 the ridges punctured, the interstices filled with greyish scales, with some 

 patches of black scales, which are more erect than the others, the margin 

 of elytra regularly tesselated with patches of grey and black scales ; 

 under-side and legs deep pitchy-brown. 



Length, 6 lines. 



New Zealand, in Kaudi Wood, Dr. Hooker. 



Note. — White probably means Kauri ; I, however, never found the 

 species in or on that wood. 



316. L brounii, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1876. L. 

 castanea, capite protlwi-aceque fuscis, tenuiter punctatis, hoc minus trans- 

 verso, basi angustiore ; sciitello valde transverso ; elytris plus minusve 

 flavo- vel albido-squamosis, lineato-costatis, costis interruptis, punctis pro- 

 funde impressis. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Allied to L. sobrina, Wh. (Gymnocheila), but with a less transverse 

 prothorax, more contracted at the base, and the elytra with the costse 

 more interrupted, owing to the stronger and deeper punctures by which 

 they are divided. The squamosity is chiefly confined to the sides, is of 

 a yellowish or whitish colour, and is apparently very liable to fall off. 



Tairua. Captain Broun found it under the bark of the Ngaeho 

 tree (Myoponini hrtum). 



317. L. sobrina, White; Gymnocheila, Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 17. 

 Greyish-brown, with a few spots and bands of a brownish-black; head in 

 front of the eyes with two slight depressions, separated by a notch ; 

 tho7'ax smooth in the middle, considerably punctured, blackish, sides 

 margined with greyish scales ; elytra with seven longitudinal keels, regu- 

 larly punctured down the edge, the punctures reddish-brown, the edge 



