OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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striato-punctatis, macula magna semilunari, ad suturam contigua, orna- 

 tis ; corpore infra pedibusque fulvescentibus, vel aliquando infuscatis. 



Long., i-i} lin. 



Auckland (Capt. Broun). 



This species has quite the outline of our S. ccreiis ; but it is scarcely 

 half the length {i.e., eight times less in bulk), and well marked by the 

 large semilunar patch on the elytra, extending from the shoulder to near 

 the apex, and meeting. its fellow at the suture. 



704. S. angUSticolliS, n.s. This species approaches the form 

 of Rhinosomus, the body being rather elongate, and the head somewhat 

 produced, but not rostrated ; it is of a shining brassy-brown colour. 



Head closely and coarsely punctured. Thorax narrow, its widest 

 part in front of the middle, rather abruptly narrowed in front, but gradu- 

 ally towards the base, its surface punctate. Scutellum transverse. The 

 elytra are rather elongate, their sides rounded, so that the shoulders are 

 perceptibly narrower than the middle portion ; they are so sculptured 

 with rows of closely placed punctures as to present a somewhat striated 

 aspect, but the punctation becomes indistinct and irregular towards the 

 apex ; their colour is very similar to that of the head and thorax, but, 

 on each elytron, there is a large dark-brown lateral patch extending 

 from the shoulder to beyond the middle, and nearly reaching the suture, 

 and also a smaller sutural one near the apex. Legs testaceous. Anten- 

 na; rather long, with the last five joints infuscate, the others reddish. 



Length, nearly i|- line. 



I found this species tolerably common in Auckland districts. 



S. unguiculus, n.s. This species has very much the appearance 

 of ^S'. angusticol/is, but is much larger, and of a somewhat variegated 

 shining brown colour. 



The head, thorax, and shoulders are reddish, the elytra pitchy- 

 brown, the legs and palpi testaceous; the antennae have the seven 

 basal joints red, the third longest, the four terminal joints are infuscate, 

 and perceptibly larger than the preceding ones, and all are more or 

 less hirsute. Head somewhat conical and depressed, with a moder- 

 ately elongate muzzle, which is smooth ; there is an elongate de- 

 pression on each side of the smooth dorsal line, the rest being punc- 

 tate. Protliorax longer than broad, moderately convex, cordiform, 

 rather abruptly rounded in front, considerably, but gradually, narrowed 

 posteriorly ; with a distinct lateral depression near the base, the broad 

 discoidal space is almost impunctate, particularly near the base, the rest 

 of the surface is distinctly (but not closely) punctured. Elytra elon- 

 gate-oval, moderately convex, slightly depressed behind the base, shoul- 

 ders not prominent ; they are scarcely striated, and bear rows of fine 

 punctures, and the interstices bear a row of very fine elongate puncti- 

 form impressions, rather remote from each other. The thorax has yel- 

 lowish, the elytra cinereous, pubescence. The legs are stout and very 

 finely pubescent ; the four posterior tibia; are spinose at the apex, and 

 the tarsal claii's are large, particularly those of the hind pair. 



