OF NEW ZEALAND. 551 



Long. Corp., 3 mm. 



Antennce just about as long as the insect (three miUims.), yellow, 

 with the club black, and the apex of each joint from the third to the 

 eighth also black, but the extremity of each of these joints only indis- 

 tinctly nodose, the ninth joint not quite so long as the tenth and 

 eleventh together. 



Obs. — This insect differs from A. phymatodes only in the colour and 

 form of the antennae ; and if the individual of that species with un- 

 tuberculated head, prove to be only an undeveloped male, then A. 

 hetcera will perhaps be found to be only the female of A. phymatodes. 



Tairua : a single individual sent by Captain Broun. 



Note. — This is not the female of A. phymatodes; the species is 

 distinct. 



971. A. diSCedens, Sharp; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. 

 A. oculis vix emarginatis, oblongus, pube grisea et nigrofusca vestitus ; 

 antennis pedibusque rufis, illis articulis apice, his femoribus medio fuscis; 

 elytris basi bicallosis. 



Long. Corp., 3|- mm. 



Antenna; elongate and slender, reddish ; joints three to eight each a 

 little thickened, but scarcely nodose at their apex ; ninth joint quite as 

 long as the tenth and eleventh together ; antennal cavities large, their 

 upper edge approaching very close to the eye ; the eye itself is scarcely 

 emarginate. The thorax is not quite so long as broad, is densely and 

 rather coarsely punctured, and clothed with variegated hair-like scales ; 

 its carina distinct and forming an obtuse angle on each side. Elytra 

 with rows of rather strong punctures, clothed in large part with blackish 

 hair-like scales, and elsewhere with similar but greyish hairs, at the base 

 with a pair of quite distinct callosities, and with indications of a second 

 pair of callosities just on the middle. 



Obs. — The different form of the eye very readily distinguishes this 

 from the other allied species ; the form of the thorax is similar to that of 

 Exilis lawsoni rather than to that of A. phymatodes. At first sight it 

 would be thought that the eye in this species is not emarginate ; but on 

 comparison with allied species it is seen that we have here an emarginate 

 eye, in which there is a concomitant change of form, so that it appears 

 like a round eye with a pointed projection above the cavity for the 

 antennee. 



Tairua, a single specuiien sent by Captain Broun. 



972. A. altus, Sharp ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., June, 1876. A. 

 oldongiis, dense tomentosus, antennis pedibusque testaceis, fusco varie- 

 gatus, illarum clava fusca ; rostro ante oculos fovea minuta, oblonga ; 

 elytris basi bicallosis, pone medium penicillis duobus. 



Long. Corp., 4 mm. 



Antenna' shorter than head and thorax ; second joint oval, about as 

 long as first ; of the following joints three to eight, each is a little shorter 

 than its predecessor, nine to eleven forming an abrupt, loosely articulated 

 club. Rostrum short and broad, a good deal constricted in front of the 



