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Head piceous, somewhat reddened in front, coarsely punctured, and 

 bearing a itw erect ferruginous hairs. Anteniue yellowish, their basal 

 joint long, second short, third cylindric, fourth about as long as third, a 

 little toothed, the fifth forming a leaflet about one-third of the length of 

 the club, and pubescent. The prothorax is finely but distinctly and 

 densely punctured, and sparingly clothed with testaceous hairs, some of 

 which are much longer than others. Scutellum punctate and pilose. 

 The elytra are not accurately adapted to each other behind, so that the 

 abdomen is visible above, they are entirely covered with rather fine 

 punctures, with traces of strise, their pubescence is scant, short, and 

 testaceous in colour. 



The insect is much less convex than the typical form, of the same 

 velvety appearance but unspotted ; the clypeus is formed as in O. 

 xanthosticta, rather short, subtruncate in front, with distinct sides nar- 

 rowed anteriorly, and therefore of a quite different outline to that of the 

 preceding species. 



Length, 6 lines ; breadth, 3.'.. 



I found one example under a stone at Whangarei Heads. 



469. O. Cinnamonea, White; Voy. Er. Terr.,Iiis.,p. \o. Allied 

 to the preceding, somewhat depressed above. Head coarsely punctured, 

 with a smooth occipital line, it is almost entirely dark brown in colour, 

 but the clypeus is testaceous along the margins and widely rounded, 

 though slightly truncated in front. 



The thorax and elytra are almost wholly of a cinnamon-brown ; the 

 former has a dark transverse mark, and is clothed with rather long 

 yellowish hairs ; the elytra are more sparingly clothed, and each has nine 

 piceous punctulated striaj and moderately broad punctulate interstices. 



Underside sparsely pilose, legs infuscate. The basal joint of the 

 antenncc is normal, the second short, third slender and elongate, the 

 fourth produced, so that it is half the length of the fifth, which cannot 

 be held to be distinct from the clul:), which is large, and may be treated 

 as four-jointed. 



Length, 6 lines ; breadth, y\- 



The above corresponds with a si)ecimen sent to me from London by 

 Mr. Pascoe, who, no doubt, examined the type in the National Collec- 

 tion. 



470. O. xanthOSticta, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. Head 



deep-brown, coarsely punctured ; clypeus brownish-yellow ; thorax and 

 elytra covered with close-pressed yellowish-brown silky hairs, the surface 

 beneath which is deep-brown, with numerous small yellow spots ; under- 

 side light-brown ; legs paler. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Note. — I found an insect at Whangarei Heads measuring 5! lines in 

 length by i\ in breadth, which I refer to this species. It is siib-'dcprcsscd, 

 the spots are small ; the clypeus is rather long but quite transversal, truncate 

 rather than rounded in front, its sides anteriorly narrowed and but little 

 rounded ; each elytron bears nine fine shallow striw ; the abdonu)i is 



