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pointed. The colours and sculpture of both species are very much 

 alike, but the rounded thoracic depressions of C. perpingiiis are absent. 



Length, + line. 



I found several specimens in the Parua forest, near Whangarei 

 Harbour. 



FAMILY— TENEBRIONIDES. 



Meiitiiiii borne by a peduncle of the under-chin, more or less promi- 

 nent. Ligitla sometimes hidden by the mentum, sometimes exposed, 

 furnished with paraglossK. Maxilhe bilobed ; the inner smaller, often 

 terminated by a corneous liook. Mandibles short, robust, arched exter- 

 nally, hollowed inwardly, and provided with a stout molar tooth at their 

 base. Eyes generally large, transversal, emarginate or sinuate in front. 

 Afitenme with eleven, rarely with only ten joints, inserted laterally in 

 front of the eyes, under the side of the head. The coxce never contig- 

 uous: the anterior globose, occasionally slightly transverse, their cotyloid 

 cavities closed behind ; the intermediate often provided with trochantins; 

 the posterior transversal. Tarsi heteromerous ; the two front pairs with 

 five, the hind pair with four joints ; their claws simple. Abdomen com- 

 posed of five distinct segments, the penultimate shorter than the others. 



Group— OPATRID^. 



Li};i/la prominent, seldom hardly visible ; its paraglosspe inserted 

 laterally at its base. Alaxilke uncovered, their internal lobe with a 

 corneous hook. The apical joint of the labial palpi never triangular, 

 that of the maxillary of variable form. ZTm^ immersed in the prothorax 

 up to the eyes, these latter visible above ; epistome short, nearly always 

 rounded and narrowly incised in front, lodging the labrum in the 

 hollow, and covering the mandibles. Anteiince eleven-jointed, gradually 

 incrassated, their terminal joints perfoliate, or forming a small club. 

 Prothorax margined laterally, hollowed in front. Sciitelliini small but 

 distinct. Elytra feebly embracing the abdomen. Anterior coxa; a little 

 transversal among the greater number, the posterior of variable form. 

 Anterior tibiae very often dilated and dentate outwardly ; the spurs 

 rarely developed ; tarsi prickly or ciliated in nearly all. Projecting 

 intercoxal process of variable width, usually parallel. Metasternitni often 

 elongated ; its episterna more or less narrow and parallel, epitnera dis- 

 tinct. Mesosternuiii rather broad. Mesothoracic epimera posterior and 

 oblique. Body often winged. 



Syrphetodes. 



Pascoc ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., September., 1S75. 



Caput depressum ; clypeiis a])ice truncatus ; labrum productum ; 

 palpi maxillares elongati, labiales brevissimi ; mentum transversum ; 

 oculi rotundati. Antenmc tcnues, articulis tribus ultimis clavam forman- 

 tibus. Prothorax transversus, basi angustatus, apice profunde emargi- 



