372 COLEOPTERA 



underside sh'mmg hlsLck, finely punctured; Jfanks of prothorax longitu- 

 dinally wrinkled, the lateral margins transversely wrinkled ; abdomen 

 finely longitudinally rugose ; epipleural fold and legs dark reddish- 

 brown, sometimes ferruginous ; antennce, palpi, and labrum (sometimes) 

 ferruginous. 



Length, 6-6| lines ; width of elytra across the middle, 25-3^ lines. 



New Zealand. Six examples. 



It is doubtless in error that De Breme has reported this species as 

 from "New Guinea." 



Var. gramilipennis. 



A little smaller (5I lines) ; head and prothorax (at the sides) less 

 closely punctured, the punctation nowhere rugosely confluent ; pro- 

 thorax gradually curvedly narrowed from the hind to the front angles, 

 median basal lobe less prominent, the base consequently appears 

 bisinuately emarginate ; the interstices (between the punctures) not per- 

 ceptibly granulose ; scutellum a little shorter, less distinctly pointed 

 behind ; elytra scarcely sinuous at the base, the punctation less varied, 

 the punctures distinctly larger and rounder. 



New Zealand. One example. 



669. C. pascoei, Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec, 1873. 

 Near to C. elongata ; more broadly oval. ZTm^ closely punctured, some- 

 what reticulately so between the eyes, the interstices being also finely 

 punctulate ; epistomial suture well marked throughout ; prothorax 

 moderately convex, black, subopaque ; sides subangulately rounded, 

 more strongly (and somewhat obliquely) narrowed in front than behind, 

 distinctly and very feebly sinuously narrowed from behind the middle to 

 the hind angles, which are directed backwards ; base bisinuate, closely 

 applied to the base of the elytra ; apex deeply subangularly emargi- 

 nate, front angles produced, acute, directed forwards ; disc not closely 

 punctured, the interstices not granulose, but sparsely finely punctulate, 

 basal impressions as in C. elongata; lateral expanded margins wide, a little 

 concave, and (together with the sides of the disc) rather strongly reticu- 

 lately rugose-punctate, the edges unequally (not uniformly) thickened ; 

 scutellum strongly transversely triangular, punctured ; elytra convex, 

 very dark purplish-brown, the suture and narrowly at the base inclined to 

 reddish ; base subtruncate ; disc finely irregularly punctured, the costse 

 but litde evident except at the base, and, together with the suture, 

 smoother than the intervals ; indistinctly, except at the apex, minutely 

 granulose ; intervals between the costse irregularly impressed with much 

 larger punctures, and feebly reticulately rugose, most distinctly so at the 

 sides ; lateral expanded margins wide, distinctly extending to the apex, 

 concave, faintly punctured ; under-side shining black ; legs and antennae 

 dark reddish-brown. 



Length, 6} lines ; width of elytra across the middle, 3} lines. 



Pitt's Island (the Chathams). A single example. 



Easily separable from C. elongata by the relatively broader form, the 

 subangulately rounded sides of prothorax, the peculiar punctation of the 

 head, &c., the much broader expanded lateral margins, which in the 

 elytra are distinctly broadly continuous to the apex. 



