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COLEOPTERA 



Lengtfli, 4 lines. 



New Zealand, (Mus. Saunders). 



Note. — I have not seen any insect at all resembling that described 

 above ; the size is very large, and the structure of the antennae shows 

 that it does not belong to Anohiiim. 



Ochina. 



Ziegl. ; La cord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. iv.,/. 521. 



Antennce long and slender, with eleven joints, the first thick, 

 arcuated, conical ; second less thick and shorter ; third elongate, sub- 

 cylindrical ; joints four to ten equally long and serrate ; eleventh longer 

 than any of them, subcylindrical. Tarsi slender, their first joint rather 

 longer than the following ones taken together. 



Body oblong-oval, finely pubescent. 



624. O. VUlgattini, n.s. Body oviform, moderately convex, 

 clothed with long erect fuscous hairs ; it is of a shining pitchy-black 

 colour, the legs and six basal joints of the antennae infuscate, the latter 

 paler. 



Antenncp elongate, slender, longer than head and thorax, eleven- 

 jointed, pubescent, gradually incrassated ; the first joint irregularly 

 formed, its apical portion clavate ; second stout, as large as the apical 

 portion of the first ; third elongate and slender, not quite as long as the 

 fourth and fifth conjointly ; these about equal to one another, longer 

 than broad, obconical ; joints six to ten obconical, each about as long 

 as broad ; eleventh ovate, not so long as the ninth and tenth united. 



Eyes large and prominent. Thorax broader than long, subconical, 

 with its base strongly bisinuated ; its surface is finely and distantly 

 punctured, and clothed with long erect fuscous hairs. Sciitellnm 

 triangular. Elytra subovate, widest behind the middle, wider than 

 thorax, and nearly three times longer than it, with somewhat elevated 

 shoulders ; their surface is finely punctured, but the punctation is dis- 

 tinct only on their anterior and sutural portions, and, like the thorax, 

 they are clothed with long erect hairs. 



Legs long and slender ; tarsi five-jointed, the basal joint longest, 

 the fourth shortest. 



Length, i line. 



This is by far the most common species (N.Z.) of the group, and 

 though called an Ociiina, does not, strictly speaking, belong to that 

 genus, nor indeed to any of the described genera known to me. It is, 

 however, most nearly allied to Ochina. 



I found the species wherever I have collected. 



Dorcatoma. 



Herbst.: Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop.., Tom. iv.,p. 524. 



Mentum transversal, trapezeiform ; ligi/la slender, ciliated and bilo- 

 bed ; last joint of the labial palpi rather strongly triangular, that of the 

 maxillary a little dilated and truncated at the extremity ; mandibles. 



