396 COLEOPTERA 



Note. — As Dr. Sharp, of Dumfriesshire, is of opinion that the 

 specimens I sent him are identical with White's species, the type of 

 which he, no doubt, examined at the British Museum, I have excluded 

 the name from the catalogue, but the description will delineate what is 

 at least a variety. 



699. T. SOphorse, 'i-s. This differs from White's species in its 

 larger size, more elongate outline, longer antennse, and more distinct 

 sculpture. The body is of a moderately shining pitchy-red, the antennte, 

 palpi, head and thorax, the femora, and all but the apical joint of the 

 tarsi, are darkest. The antemice. are rather long (3I lines), slender, and 

 piceous. Head shining, rather elongated anteriorly, very finely and 

 closely punctured, especially in front, which is somewhat depressed, 

 without any smooth space, and with prominent antennal orbits. Eyes 

 large, more closely approximated than in the preceding species. Palpi 

 with the second joint rather slender and elongate. Prothorax rather 

 small, finely and remotely punctured, but much more coarsely near the 

 basal depressions. Scutellum triangular, quite impunctate. Elytra 

 elongated, very gradually attenuated, without any obvious incurvature 

 near the middle ; their shoulders are obtuse, but subacute at a point 

 exactly opposite the hind angles of the thorax ; each bears a short 

 scutellar, and eight distinct stria?, these striae are distinctly punctured, 

 the four outer more coarsely impressed than those nearer the suture ; 

 the interstices are convex, the fifth insulated by the third and sixth. 

 Legs elongate, the anterior tibice slightly flexuose, and the tarsi slender. 



Length, 5^ lines ; breadth (maxim.), if. 



I cut four or five specimens out of the decayed portion of a tree 

 (Sophora tetraptei'a) near Stoke's Point, Waitemata Harbour, in 1874. 



Xylochus. 



Gen. nov. 



Labial palpi short, terminal joint large, triangular ; Maxillary elongate, 

 tiuadri-articulate, last joint large triangular-securiform. Mandibles promi- 

 nent. LabriiDi prominent, sub-truncate and ciliated anteriorly, separated 

 from the epistome by a deep transversal furrow. Head almost rhom- 

 boidal, with a moderate muzzle ; epistome truncate in front, rounded 

 behind. Eyes large, distinctly facetted, reniform, widely separated. 

 Antenme long, basal joint cylindrical, second shortest, third longer than 

 first, joints three to ten about equal, a little expanded towards the 

 extremity, eleventh oviform ; they are pubescent. Protho7-ax about as 

 long as broad, finely marginated, apex truncate, base slightly bisinuated, 

 its sides rounded in front, but nearly straight behind ; anterior angles 

 obtuse and depressed, the posterior nearly rectangular. 



Sciiielliim triangular. Elytra long, a little wider than thorax at the 

 base, margined, slightly broader near the middle ; epipleurce entire. Legs 

 long, femora moderate, tibite a little arcuated, their terminal spines dis- 

 tinct : posterior tarsi elongate, basal joint long, the penultimate lamel- 

 lated ; the third and fourth of the anterior with large lamellae ; claws 

 serrated. 



