OF NEW ZEALAND. 



21 7 



Length, 2I-3 lines ; breadth, nearly f. 

 I found my three specimens at Parua. 



FAMILY— CUCUJIPES. 



Ligula horny or coriaceous, of variable form, prominent. Maxillcz 

 bilobed. Palpi short. Antennx eleven-jointed, often granular, filiform, 

 or terminating in a small three-jointed club. Front and middle legs 

 distant ; their coxifi globose, embedded in their cotyloid cavities ; the 

 posterior transversal, contiguous ; tarsi simple, sometimes heteromerous 

 among the males, and pentamerous among the females, occasionally five- 

 jointed in both sexes. Abdomen composed of five sub-equal segments, 

 all free. 



Group— HEMIPEPLIDJE. 



Maxillce uncovered. Ligula entire. Elytra truncated posteriorly, 

 leaving the greater part of the abdomen exposed. Antennce rather lono-, 

 filiform, their basal joint elongate. Tarsi heteromerous ; their terminal 

 joint bilobed. 



Diagrypnodes. 



Waterhouse : Trans. Ent. Soc, Maj, 1876. 



Elongate, narrow, flat. Nead ovate ; mandibles very stout, prominent ; 

 antennce filiform, reaching to the apex of the elytra, the basal joint Ion", 

 club-shaped, very slender at its base ; the second joint very small, 

 scarcely longer than broad, narrowed at the base ; the third of the same 

 form, but one-third longer ; the fourth to tenth nearly equal, somewhat 

 slender ; the eleventh a litde longer than the tenth, very slender and 

 fusiform. Eyes very small, not prominent. Thorax scarcely as broad 

 as the head and about the same length, narrowed somewhat suddenly 

 behind the middle. Elytra abbreviated, narrow, about the length of 

 the head and thorax together. Abdomen long, flat, with five segments 

 visible above, rounded at the apex. Femora short, the basal joint to 

 the four anterior tarsi slightly elongate ; the second and third sub-equal 

 and a little shorter than the first ; the fourth joint shorter, small ; lifth 

 joint as long as the four previous joints taken together ; posterior tarsi 

 with only four joints, of which the first joint is somewhat elongate, the 

 second rather shorter, the third very short. 



This genus should be placed next to Ino. 



382. D. wakefieldi, Waterhouse; Trans. Ent. Soc., May, 1876. 

 Elongatus, parallelus, depressus, nitidus, rufo-testaceus. Capite depresso 

 ovato, postice angustato, subtiliter discrete punctulato ; mandibulis 

 nigro-piceis, crassis ; oculis parvis, nigris ; antefinis longis, articulo primo 

 elongato, clavato. Thorace capite paululo angustiori depresso, post 

 medium paulo constricto, dein ad basin angustato, dorso utrinciue i)arce 

 punctulato. Scuiello concavo. Elytris basi capite vix angustioribus, 



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