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punctulato ; saitello rotundato ; dytris basi prothorace niulto latioribus, 

 leviter striatis, interstitiis planatis, squamis minutis vestitis, vitta lata 

 azurea, postice nivea et gradatim attenuata, a scutello fere ad apicem, 

 ornatis ; corpore infra dense albo-squamoso, macula ochracea antica 

 utrinque notata. 



Long., if lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



This and the following species agree pretty well with Eugnomus, 

 Schoenh., no member of which has, I believe, hitherto been described. 

 There is a common variety of this species in which the blue stripe dis- 

 appears, leaving only a short white line on the third interstice near the 

 apex. 



811. E. picipenniS, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1876. 

 E. subnige?; nitidus, elytris tibiis tarsisque piceis ; rostro apicem versus 

 multo crassiore, leviter punctato ; scapo testaceo, funiculo articulo 

 secundo quam primo paulo breviore ; clava ampla, elliptica ; ocidis baud 

 approximatis ; prothorace longitudine latitudini aequali, crebre punctato, 

 utrinque albo pubescente ; scutello triangulari ; elytris paulo elevatis, 

 postice manifeste declivibus, substriatim punctatis, interstitiis latis, 

 secundo, tertio quartoque posticis gibbosis, humeris prominulis ; corpore 

 infra nitide nigro, parce squamoso. 



Long., 2 lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



8x2. E. fervidus, /'ai-r^^; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1876. E. 

 pube silaceo-rufa sat dense tectus, lateribus infra scutelloque sulphureis ; 

 capite inter oculos excavato ; rostro minus tenuato, pubescente ; antennis 

 testaceis ; funiculo, ut in prsecedentibus, articulo primo ampliato ; pro- 

 thorace parvulo, subtiliter confertim punctato ; scutello conspicuo ; elytris 

 striato-punctatis, punctis approximatis, interstitiis leviter convexis ; 

 pedibus minus pubescentibus. 



Long., if lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



813. E. wakefieldii, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb., 1877. 

 E. fusco-castaueus, capite rostroque nigris, dorso elytrorum prothorace^iue 

 in medio squamulis ochraceis vestitis; antennis castaneis, funiculo arti- 

 culis duobus basalibus elongatis, clava longiuscula ; elytris supra pla- 

 natis, a medio abrupte declivibus, postice vittis duabus nivcis ornatis ; 

 corpore infra niveo-piloso. 



Long, 2\ lin. 



Christchurch (Mr. Wakefield). 



This pretty little species is at once distinguished by the form of the 

 elytra. 



814. E. fuCOSUS, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb., 1S77. E. 

 fusco-castaneus, supra setulis numerosis instructus, ])edibus rufo-testaceis; 

 rost7v sat valido, capite ses(iuilongiore, apice rufo ; chva antcnnarum 



