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as the basal joint. Hind-body with five visible ventral segments, first 

 large, as long as the three following together, the three following about 

 similar to one another, and not abbreviated along their middle, except 

 that, in the males, the fourth segment is shorter in the middle than at 

 the sides ; fifth rather large. 



I shall not attempt to decide on the exact affinities of this anomal- 

 ous little insect, for no one but an entomologist who is well acquainted 

 with all the details of structure of the Phyfophaga could, I am sure, do 

 so satisfactorily. I think, however, it would be most correctly placed as 

 indicating a separate tribe of Chapuis' Eupodcs, connecting that section 

 with the Halfiddce of the section Cycliques. It is clearly a highly 

 important synthetic form. 



1087. A. paradoxa, Sharp; Eat. Mon. Mag., October, 1876. 

 Ferniginea, nitida, nuda, antennis pedibusque dilutioribus ; elytris 

 striatis, striis fortiter punctatis. 



Long. Corp., 2^-3 mm. 



Variat. elytris plus minusve fusco-signatis. 



First joint of antemm considerably thicker than the following joints, 

 second rather shorter than first, and considerably stouter than third, and 

 also considerably longer than it, fourth longer than third, four to eleven 

 all slender and elongate, but the apical joints are larger than the inter- 

 mediate, eleventh longer than tenth. Head with the eyes rather large, 

 the space between them elevated, and longitudinally divided down the 

 middle. Thorax almost impunctate. Elytra with ten rows of coarse 

 punctures, the interstices between them being slightly elevated, especi- 

 ally behind. The extremity of the pygidinin slightly projecting beyond 

 the elytra ; iinder-si/rface almost impunctate. 



This species has been sent me both from Auckland by Mr. Lawson 

 and from Tairua by Capt. Broun ; the latter gentleman indicated some 

 of his specimens as being found on one of the tree ferns (Cyathea 

 dealbata.) 



1088. A. puncticolle, n.s. This species greatly resembles A. 

 paradoxa in general outline and size, but is, however, quite distinct. 

 The thorax is quadrate, its sides nearly straight, and not so much con- 

 stricted near the base as in the preceding species ; its surface is distinctly 

 but not very coarsely punctate. The elytra are oblong, with prominent 

 shoulders, slightly curved sides and rounded apex ; they are striated, 

 the punctation of the strise is coarse, the interstices are somewhat eleva- 

 ted, and they have the usual transverse depression near the base. 



The sides of the thorax and the elytra, as well as the antennas and 

 legs, are of a shining reddish-testaceous colour, the dorsal portions of the 

 body being shining piceous. 



It may be at once known by its more distinctly quadrate punctured 

 thorax, and the more elevated interstices of the elytra. One example 

 has the apex of the elytra testaceous. 



Length, i^ line. 



I found three specimens at Parua, Whangarei Harbour. 



