OF NEW ZEALAND. 255 



trigone. Lahrinn sub-porrectum, in medio tuberculo conico instructum. 

 Meiitiuii transversum, angulis anticis lateralibus rotundatis margine 

 anticis baud emarginato. Labii lacinife elongatje, setosre. Caput trans- 

 versum, antice late concavum, lateribus baud complanato dilatatis ; 

 ociili rotundati, vix cantho antice et postice incisi. Prothorax margine 

 antico in medio elevato et sub-porrecto, disco in medio canabculato vel 

 sub-depresso. Tihuc anticse extus 6-dentat8e. Prostcruinn simplex, baud 

 retro porrectum. 



450. L. reticulatUS (Buquct, AfS.), Weshvood ; Trans. Entom. 

 Soc, iv., 275, 1847. Z. viandibulis brevibus crassis, intus obtusi den- 

 tatis, sub-depressus, niger, pnvwto sub-quadrato, elytrisqiie squamoso- 

 reticulatis. 



Long. Corp., lin. 6. 



Habitat in Nova Zealandia. In Mus. D. Buquet, Parisiis. 



Caput parvum, nigrum, nitidum, margine antico depresso. Mandi- 

 bula: breves, obtuste, dentibusque duobus obtusis armatis. Ajite?it2ce 

 articulo 7™° vix intus producto setoso. 6>^//// cantho sub-divisi. Mentum 

 transversum, angulis anticis rotundatis, margine antico in medio parum 

 emarginato. Pronotum sub-quadratum, capite multo latius, lateribus 

 parum rotundatis, disco spatiis nonnuUis luteo squamosis. Elytra 

 pronoti latitudine obscure luteo-squamosa, spatiis vel interstitiis glabris 

 reticulata. Pedes breves, nigri. Tibia: anticse extus 5-6 dentat^e, 4 

 posticte in medio dente unico armatse. 



FAMILY— LAMELLICORNES. 



Afjtenna: short, with seven or eleven joints ; the basal joint large, 

 the terminal joints mobile, and forming a transversal club. Legs more 

 or less fossorial, especially the anterior ; their tarsi pentamerous. 



Group-COPRID^. 



Organs of the mouth overlapped by the clypeus, invisible from above. 

 Ligula membraneous. Lobes of the iiiaxilhe very large, coriaceous or 

 membraneous, and ciliated. Mandibles lamelliform, membraneous, more 

 or less corneous laterally. Labrum of the same form, membraneous, 

 invisible, adhering to the arch of the cavity of the mouth. Aiitenncc 

 inserted below the clypeus, with eight or nine joints ; the basal very 

 large, the three last forming the club. Six ventral segments to the 

 abdomen., all connate. Metathoracic parapleural simple. Intermediate 

 coxcc longitudinal or oblicjue, nearly always widely separated. A single 

 spur to the posterior tibicc . 



Saphobius. 



Sharp ; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. Paris, 1873,/. 4. 



Corpus sub-quadratum. Clypeus antice angustatus brovitcr bidcn- 

 tatus. Palpi labiales biarticulati ? (articulum tortium videre nequeo), 



