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the suture the largest, the other two are placed beyond these and 

 nearer to the base ; the two anterior tubercles are elongate, being pro- 

 longed towards the base ; the surface of the elytra is more closely and 

 as coarsely punctured as that of the two first described species, but the 

 punctation is more distinctly arranged in rows. The antenna: are 

 reddish, luibescent, and with the fourth joint rather long. "\\\& femora 

 aiid basal portion of the tibke are shining piceous, the tarsi and apical 

 ])ortion of the tibiae rather clear yellow, with a piceous spot near the 

 extremity of the tibiae. 



This species is obviously narrower, proportionally, than any of the 

 preceding. 



Length, 2| lines. 



I found one specimen at the Cemetery Gully, Auckland. 



■ 1053. S. pictipes, n.s. EUiptieal, convex, obscure-bronze in 

 colour, antenmie reddish-testaceous with some of the joints a little infus- 

 cate, middle of the femora piceous, their extremities reddish, tibice, 

 tarsi, and palpi yellowish, the former spotted with brown. 



The antenncc are robust, as long as the body, their third and fourth 

 joints elongate, each about twice the length of the fifth. The head 

 bears a few coarse punctures ; the thorax is oval, not greatly contracted 

 behind, very coarsely and closely punctured, the punctation becoming 

 a little less coarse towards the sides ; the elytra are oviform, narrowed 

 in front to the width of the thorax, and somewhat pointed behind ; they 

 have ajew small punctures disposed in rows, and a large humeral space 

 on each distinctly granulated, and they bear a few long erect hairs and 

 indistinct patches of very fine greyish pubescence. 



Length, 2 lines; greatest breadth, t,. 



A little larger and much broader than S. ptinoides, the bases of the 

 thorax and elytra less contracted, the thorax more coarsely sculptured, 

 and the fourth antennal joint very much longer. 



I found one example at Whangarei Heads, yesterday (October 4, 

 1878.) 



1054. S. longipes, Sharp; Ent. Mon. Mag., Sept., 1878, /. 82. 

 $ Sat elongata, fusco griseoque minus lEete variegata, elytris versus 

 apicem dilutioribus et plaga communi scutiformi fusca, setis erectis 

 nullis, tuberculis sex minutis, setosis ; prothot^ace sat elongato, anterius 

 minus punctato, punctis vix ad medium extensis. 



Long., 8 mm. ; lat, 3^- mm. 



The male of this species, though rather similar at first sight to that 

 sex of Parmena antarctica. White (^Gen. Somatidia, Bates), is abundantly 

 distinct ; it is larger and especially more elongate, and has the legs much 

 more developed, they are much longer, and the thighs are more clavate, 

 the punctation of the thorax and elytra is much less, and each elytron 

 has three minute tubercles instead of two. The colouration of the two 

 species seems very similar, except that .S*. longipes will probably prove the 

 less conspicuously variegated. 



The discovery of this species is due to Professor Hutton, who recently 

 sent me a single specimen, which was found in Otago. 



