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the tibiae and tarsi with yellowish hairs. Head constricted behind the 

 eyes, coarsely and rugosely punctured, except on the epistome, which is 

 more distantly and not at all rugosely punctured. Prothorax margined, 

 nearly as long as broad, the sides somewhat rounded, with a sinuation 

 before the rectangular hind angles ; the apex is obliquely excised, the 

 base with a wide sinuation towards each side ; there is a central basal 

 depression, and another at each side of it. close to the hind margin ; the 

 surface is coarsely punctured, the punctation on the disc more remote 

 than elsewhere, leaving an almost smooth dorsal space. Elytra elon- 

 gate, with somewhat compressed sides, slightly rounded, and a rather 

 flattened disc ; each elytron bears a short scutellar and ten strongly 

 punctured longitudinal grooves, the outer marginal ; the interstices are 

 a little elevated, the seventh, proceeding from the shoulder, is almost 

 . carinated, and the sculpture becomes confluent and confused towards 

 the apex, and they are distantly punctulated. 



Length, 8-^- ; breadth, 2| lines. 



The above corresponds with three examples in my collection ; one 

 from Mr. C. M. Wakefield (from Christchurch), and two which I found 

 near Whangarei Harbour ; a fourth sent me by Mr. J. Buchanan, of the 

 Colonial Museum, Wellington, differs from these in colouration, being 

 entirely brick-red, yet evidently quite mature, though smaller than the 

 others. 



Mr. F. Bates (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., December, 1873J states : — "It 

 has the very exceptional character of having the hind margins of the 

 third and fourth ventral segments corneous, as in the genus Calcar and 

 another allied, but undescribed. South American genus." 



Lorelus. 



Sharp ; Ent. Mon. Mag., September, 1876. 



Mentitm parvum ; palpi omnes conspicui. Coxce intermedite parvse, 

 trochantinis nuUis. Tarsi articulo penultimo sub-lobato. 



Antennce i i-jointed, with the three apical joints a little thicker than the 

 others ; their insertion very near the eye, which is moderately broad and 

 not emarginate. Mentiim quite minute, leaving exposed the base of the 

 maxillee ; the process supporting it also very small. Last joint of maxil- 

 lary palpi securiform. Front coxte round, small and deeply embedded, 

 separated by a narrow process, the apex of which is depressed and does 

 not project behind. Middle coxae small, deeply embedded, separated 

 by a process of the flat mesosternum, outside each the mesosternum 

 and metasternum meet together, and there is no trace of a trochantin. 

 Metasternum rather long. Hind coxge separated by an obtuse, not very 

 broad projection of the first ventral segment. Hind-body rather elon- 

 gate. EpipleiircB narrow. Tibice quite unarmed and rather slender, 

 their apices narrow, and not in the least thickened, but even rather more 

 slender than the portion just above them. Penultimate joint of the 

 tarsi excavate above, so that the apical joint is inserted at the upper 

 side of its base ; they are densely clothed beneath with a fine pile ; the 

 basal joint of the hind ones quite as long as the two following together. 



