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thorax is somewhat remotely punctured, except two large ovate spots in 

 front of the middle, and it is clothed with yellow hairs, the smooth 

 spaces, however, being quite nude and conspicuous. The elytra are 

 striated, there being nine on each elytron, the sutural is very finely, 

 those nearest the margin coarsely, punctured ; the interstices are scarcely 

 convex, are finely punctured, and bear short yellow hairs, which are more 

 closely placed on the sides and the first, third, and fifth interstices. 

 The lower part of the body is distinctly and finely punctured and some, 

 what densely clothed with pallid hairs. The colour is piceous, shining, 

 the side margins and apices of elytra and the legs are reddish. The 

 ante/um and legs are finely pubescent ; the second and third joints of 

 the former small, four to ten inwardly acute at the apex, and the false 

 terminal joint is not very obvious. 



Length, 1 1 lines. 



T found one example at Tairua. 



496. T. foveolatUS, n.s. Pitchy-black, shining, tomentose. The 

 antennce have a short quadrate second joint; the third half as long 

 again as the second ; joints four to ten with the anterior angle inwardly 

 prolonged and acute, the terminal appendage one-third the length of 

 the eleventh joint. Head coarsely and rugosely punctate, longitudinally 

 depressed in front and clothed with rather long yellow hairs. Thorax 

 rather long, narrowed anteriorly, hind angles scarcely divergent ; the 

 surface is remotely punctate, the anterior and lateral portions more 

 coarsely than the discoidal ; there is an indistinctly impressed abbre- 

 viated dorsal line, and two rounded fovese near the base, but quite 

 distinct from the usual basal depressions ; it is clothed with yellow 

 hairs, which however are chiefly confined to the sides and base. The 

 elytra are somewhat narrowed posteriorly, they are striated ; the striee 

 nearest the suture are simple, the outer coarsely punctured, particularly 

 the marginal ones ; the interstices are distinctly punctured, the sutural 

 and alternate ones are rather densely covered with yellowish hairs, the 

 others being but sparingly tomentose. The prosteriium is distantly but 

 distinctly, the metasternum and abdomen finely and more closely, punc- 

 tured, and pubescent. Structural characters normal. 



Length, g^— ^3 lines. 



I found one at Tairua, and two others at Parua (Whangarei Har- 

 bour) ; in one example the thoracic line is obsolete. 



Metablax. 



Sharp ; Ann. A/aj^. Nat. Hist., May, 1877. 



Forehead curved in front, very distinctly separated from the clypeus, 

 which is slightly unfolded, but still sub-perpendicular ; antennal spaces 

 more or less extended inwards, but their boundaries ill-defined, the 

 labrum only attached at the sides to the clypeus, so that in the middle 

 there appears to be a kind of space or gap over the labrum ; the limits 

 between the forehead and clypeus, in the middle, ill-defined. Joints 

 two and three of antenna- not much developed ; joints four to ten not 



