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lar elevations. The antenme are rather slender, and terminate in a 

 rather elongate three-jointed club. The thorax has the front margin a 

 good deal emarginate on each side behind the eyes, and the front 

 angles slender and acute ; it increases in width from the front angles to 

 behind the middle, the sides being slightly bisinuate in front of the 

 broadest part, from there it is much narrower to the base, the hind 

 angles being extremely indistinct and ill defined. The elytra show ten 

 rows of punctures, the external indistinct, each puncture is connected 

 with the following one by a fine short raised line ; they are clothed 

 with a scanty and very short ashy pubescence, arranged so as to give a 

 spotted appearance. The under surface is nearly bare of pubescence. 

 Found on the West Coast by Mr. C. M. Wakefield. 



333. U. brouni, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1876. U. 

 oblongus, piceus, supra variegatus, insequalis (et in elytris tuberculatus), 

 subtus setulis brevissimis tenuissimisque adspersus ; prothorace lateribus 

 bis indentatis ; antennis, tibiis, tarsisque rufo-ferrugineis, clava, tibiisque 

 in medio nigrescentibus. 



Long. Corp., 4^ mm. 



This species is very closely allied to U. viridipictus, Woll., but 

 is larger, and has the indentations at the sides of the thorax considerably 

 deeper, and the setse of the under surface much finer. The surface of 

 the thorax and elytra is very similar in the two species (the green 

 nodules of U. viridipictus being, I judge, not constant in colour) ; the 

 surface of the thorax is very uneven, but still without distinct nodules ; 

 the elytra bear numerous nodules, which, however, are not very distinct, 

 and their colour is a patchwork of sober green and grey, with a little 

 black intermixed. 



Three individuals sent from Tairua by Captain T. Broun. 



334. U. viridipictus, Wollaston. (Tarphio mi metes). Oblong, 

 variegated with fuscous and griseous, with about eight green tubercular 

 elevations on the elytral disc, antennae and tarsi infuscate-red, the club 

 fuscous. The head is fuscous, covered with minute tubercles. The 

 thorax is transverse, the disc transversely elevated, sides explanated, 

 with a slight excision at the middle, and a much less obvious one 

 behind ; there is a dorsal depressed line, on each side of which the 

 surface is more or less tubercular; it is clothed with yellowish depressed 

 setae. Elytra oblong, base obliquely truncated, sides parallel and indis- 

 tinctly serrate ; on each elytron there are three sinuous rows of 

 punctures, the outer abbreviated ; these follow the direction of lines of 

 golden hair-like scales, which render the green nodules on the disc very 

 conspicuous ; the sides are indistinctly sculptured and variegated. The 

 legs are infuscate-red, the tibice bearing externally some short setae. 



Length, i| line. 



1 have not been able to obtain a copy of Mr. Wollaston's de- 

 scription, but the above, I think, will enable the species to be recognized. 

 It will, of course, be understood, that I suppose the specimen I have 

 just described to be Mr. Wollaston's species, as I do not know of any 

 other similar form. 



