6lO COLEOPTERA 



1069. H. (Camia) crista, Fabr. ; Syst.Entom., p. 170. Fab- 

 ricius describes the basal tubercles of the elytra as tridentate ; but, 

 as I have satisfied myself by examination of his type specimen in the 

 Banksian collection, they are not toothed at all, but surmounted by a 

 compressed pencil of hairs. This type is a large form of the species 

 (3I lines), of tawny-brown colour, with the narrow black posterior fascia 

 unaccompanied by a broader dark belt. Most of the examples I have 

 seen from Auckland are smaller, about three lines, with much darker 

 brown elytra, having the shoulders and an apical spot tawny, and a 

 broad posterior blackish fascia, the anterior margin of which is black, 

 margined again anteriorly with light tawny. But' all connecting grada- 

 tions occur, and I believe they form only one variable species. It may 

 be known from its congeners by the elevated penicillated crests, the 

 robust acute lateral thoracic tubercles, and the finely striated integu- 

 ment of the thorax. — (Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.., August, 1874J. 



1070. H. lanipas, Sharp; Ent. Mon. Mag., Feby., 1877. Oblongus, 

 nigricans, minus dense albido-vestitus, prothoracis tuberculis magnis ; 

 elytris parce punctatis, tuberculis basalibus valde elevatis, acuminatis, 

 nudis ; tibiis longius sed minus dense albido-setosis. 



Long., 7 mm. 



Basal joint of antcnnix thick, black ; third and following joints 

 reddish, with their apices infuscate, their setae rather long and conspicu- 

 ous. Head with the antennal elevations acute, the vertex deeply 

 impressed, and more densely clothed with the nearly white pubescence 

 than the other parts. Thorax with the lateral tubercles large and 

 pointed, its pubescence scanty and easily removed, and the surface then 

 without sculpture and nearly shining. Elytra rather elongate and 

 narrow, with an irregularly distributed whitish down, and some upright 

 black setcC, and with distant coarsish punctures, which are quite obsolete 

 before the apex, at their base with two strongly-elevated acute tubercles, 

 which are destitute of pubescence. Legs rather long ; tibiae reddish 

 towards the knees, elsewhere blackish, but somewhat variegated by the 

 distribution of the whitish pubescence, the hairs on the inner sides of 

 the four posterior tibiae remarkably long and fine. 



The acute bare tubercles of the elytra, and its little variegated whitish 

 pubescence, easily distinguish it. 



Sent by Capt. Broun from Tairua. 



107 1. H. pedator. Bates (Sharp, MS.); Ent. Mon. Mag., Aug., 

 1876. Oblongus, fusco-piceus, macula laterali thoracis pone tuberculum, 

 fasciaque mediana elytrorum cinereis ; antenuis longe ciliatis ; thorace 

 tuberculo magno conico laterali, alteris duobus disci minoribus ; elytris 

 passim punctatis, punctisque nonnullis majoribus sparsis. 



Long. 3 lin., ^ $ . 



Tairua, near Auckland (Captain Broun). 



Differs from the typical species of the genus by its large, conical, 

 thoracic, lateral tubercles not terminating in a spine. It may be readily 

 distinguished by the rounded patch of light coloured tomentum on each 

 side, covering the hinder part of the lateral tubercle, and extending 



