OF NEW ZEALAND. 575 



Head rugosely punctate, with an indistinct, nearly smooth, central 

 line. Thorax slightly constricted near the front and base, armed with a 

 large acute tubercle at each side ; there are two obtuse discoidal tuber- 

 cles, the rest of the surface, except a smooth dorsal line, bears niany 

 minute wart-like elevations. Scutellum rather large, punctate. The 

 elytra are five times longer than the prothorax, with prominent shoul- 

 ders and parallel sides ; their surface is closely studded with small 

 granules, which become indistinct towards the apex; suture distinct; 

 apex rounded. The body is fuscous, and sparingly clothed with yellow 

 hairs ; antennae and legs fusco-rufous, pilose. 



Length, 8 lines. 



Mr. Bates says (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1874^ that Redten- 

 bacher's description oi Plilyctxnodes trituberciilatiis applies to this species; 

 perhaps the description had been hastily composed, as I fail to detect 

 the " three obtuse tubercles arranged in the form of a triangle." 



Agapanthida. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 22. 



Head somewhat notched between the antennce ; palpi rather long ; 

 antenncB scarcely the length of the body, all the joints but the second 

 nearly of the same length ; thorax spined on the side, rather broader 

 than long, somewhat rounded in front, truncated behind ; elytra elon- 

 gated, slightly narrowed behind the base ; femora clavated. 



1005. A. pulchella, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 22. Covered 

 with palish grey, somewhat silky scales ; base of elytra with a roundish 

 black spot on suture, in front margined with deep yellow hairs, across 

 the middle of elytra there is an irregular blackish band not reaching the 

 margin and interrupted in the middle, and a diagonal line of yellow 

 hairs near the end, with two black lunules behind each, separated by a 

 short yellow line ; thorax with two black spots above, one on each side ; 

 base of the joints of antennae, beginning at the third, yellow ; basal half 

 oi femora yellow. 



Length, 6 lines. 

 Waikouaiti (Mr. Earl). 



1006. A. SCUtellaris, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan., 1876. 

 A. oblonga, deprcssa, rufo-castanea, antennis pedibuscjue dilutioribus, 

 supra confertim punctata, griseo variegata ; scutello nigro, subscutiformi, 

 in medio excavato ; elytris apice paulo dehiscentibus, sutura canalicu- 

 lata. 



Long., 4 lin. 



Waikato (Capt. Hutton). 



Judging from Mr. W'hite's figure of A. pulchella ( Voyage of the Erebus 

 and 7 error, Entom., tab. 4, fig. \o), this species differs, it might be 

 thought almost gcnerically, in its shorter and much thicker/<7;/(7/v7. The 

 derm in my unique example (apparently a female) seems to be covered 

 with a membraneous sort of integument, peeling off in patches ; but, from 



