OF NEW ZEALAND. 623 



1092. C. puncticollis, /i.s. Orate, convex, moderately shining, 

 legs and antennae testaceous-yellow ; the head, front and base of thorax, 

 and a broad triangular sutural space on the elytra brownish-testaceous, 

 thoracic disc fuscous, elytra piceous. 



Antennce longer than head and thorax, the first joint stout, second 

 not so stout as the first or as long as the third ; joints three to six 

 elongate, slender; seven to ten, each a little dilated at the end; eleventh 

 larger than tenth, elongate-oval. 



Head sparingly punctured, the punctures elongate and distant ; 

 epistome emarginated. Prothorax transverse, apex truncate, base 

 obliquely truncated towards each side ; finely margined, widest behind 

 the middle where it is almost angular, rounded in front, obliquely 

 narrowed behind, its surface densely covered with a fine punctation, but 

 becoming coarser towards the margins. Elytra margined, shoulders 

 oblique and obtusely elevated, slightly rounded laterally, apex obtuse ; 

 each elytron bears a sutural stria, deepest behind and obliterated towards 

 the base, an abbreviated one near this at the apex, and two distinct 

 furrows near the side margin, the inner not attaining the base ; their 

 punctation is coarser and more remote than that of the thorax, is finest 

 and closest on the scutellar region, and arranged in rows near the apex 

 so as to indicate stri* ; the marginal and sutural interstices are smooth 

 as far as the strife extend, there are also some smooth linear spaces near 

 the apex, and the space between the margin and lateral groove is some- 

 what carinated. 



Body nude, legs clothed with yellowish pubescence. 



Length, if line; breadth, nearly i. 



Three distinct varieties of this species exist. 



T\\it first has the thorax almost entirely pitchy-brown, with brownish- 

 testaceous elytra ; the second has dark testaceous elytra with a broad 

 longitudinal stripe on each pitchy-brown ; the third is almost entirely 

 testaceous, though the thorax is reddish. These exhibit slight differences 

 in size and elytral sculpture, but I consider them to belong to one 

 species only. 



It occurs sparingly at Tairua and the neighbourhood of Whangarei 

 Harbour, and I believe Dr. Sharp received a specimen from Mr. C. M. 

 Wakefield. 



The specimens I sent to Dr. Sharj) were labelled, but not described, 

 under the name that has been applied. 



1093- C. jucundus, U.S. sinning, head and thorax reddish, elytra 

 bronzy-green, legs yellowish, antennie testaceous. Head almost smooth, 

 with a slight angular impression between the eyes. Tliorax rather 

 transverse, finely margined, very regularly rounded laterally, not more 

 narrowed in front than behind, the base very slightly sinuated ; its 

 surface is rather finely punctured, the punctures elongated, remote near 

 the margins, so that these are almost smooth. Sciitellunt purplish, 

 smooth. Elytra margined, rather regularly rounded, obovate, the 

 humeral region very slightly elevated and impunctate ; each with a 

 marginal groove almost duplicated near the base, one inside not reaching 

 the base, except as a row of punctures, a finer one close to the suture 



