OF NEW ZEALAND. 645 



sometimes straight, sometimes emarginated. Abdomen with six ventral 

 segments ; projecting intercoxal space wide, rounded ; pectoral laminae 

 apparent. Legs short and rather robust, tarsal cla%us appendicular. 



1 1 26. C. tasmanii, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 23. Very 

 deep black, spotted with yellow ; head black, with two small angular 

 yellow spots between the eyes, one close to each eye; thorax with a 

 large square yellow spot on each anterior angle ; elytra with seven 

 yellow spots, two at the base somewhat elongated, one on the shoulder, 

 the other near the suture, next two before the middle, the outer close to 

 the margin, almost divided into two, the inner near the suture and 

 sharpish above, two beyond the middle, outer next the margin and 

 sharpish below, the last at the tip ; under-side and legs black. 



Length, 2 lines. 

 New Zealand. 



Note. — This species, I believe, occurs throughout New Zealand ; 

 but, so far as my experience goes, is by no means common. 



1 127. C. concinna. 



Note. — This name is included in the list on the authority of Mr. 

 Pascoe (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 1875) j ^ut I know nothing of the 

 insect by literature or otherwise. 



Leis. 



Mulsant ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coiivp., Tom. xii., p. 200. 



Antential club obtriangular, somewhat distinctly dented. Pronotuni 

 arcuated laterally, often sinuously at the base near the hind angles. 

 Elytra rounded, or almost rounded behind, a little, or not at all, pro- 

 duced ; epipleiircc rather large. 

 Allied to Pelina and Cycloneda. 



1 1 28. L. antipodum, Mulsafit; Ann. Nat. Hist., 2nd ser., vol. i., 

 /. 66, 1848. C. ovata glabra, thorace luteo lineis duabus obliquis 

 nigris, antice abbreviatis. Elytris virescenti-griseis, macula obtriangu- 

 lari juxta scutellum, linea longitudinali antice et postice valde abbre- 

 viata, margineque inipqualiter, luteis ; pedore rufo ; abdomine nigro ; 

 pedibus luteis. 



New Zealand (Rev. W. Colenso). 



Note. — The species is very variable in colour ; sometimes the dark 

 greenish hue predominates, sometimes the yellow. It is 2^ lines in 

 length. 



I found my specimens at Tairua. 



Scymnus. 

 Kugelann ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Torn. xii.,/. 213. 



Head moderate, immersed in the thorax to beyond the posterior 

 margin of the eyes ; epistome joined to the cheeks, emarginated in front ; 



