758 COLEOPTERA 



wood's description. Nearly all the other examples I have examined 

 are almost wholly black, and some larger than the one alluded to. 



Length, 4 lines ; breadth, i. 



Habitat, New Zealand (id est, not local). 



Group— BRONTID-ffi . 



Parabrontes (p- 220). 



1361. P. setiger, '^.s. Elongate, depressed ; head and thorax 

 and irregular spaces on the elytra piceous, antennae and trophi cas- 

 taneous-red, legs fusco-testaceous. 



Head longitudinally rugosely punctate, with two smooth grooves 

 from the labrum to the occiput. Prothorax longer than broad, nar- 

 rower than elytra, anterior angles protuberant and rufescent, con- 

 siderably contracted behind, sides obtusely dilated after the middle ; 

 its discoidal sculpture irregularly rugose, the lateral granular. Scxc- 

 tellum transversal, blackish. Elytra elongate, parallel, marginated, 

 obtusely rounded apically, transversely depressed near the middle ; 

 coarsely punctate-striate, sides vertical except near the middle ; the 

 dorsum rather sharply defined from the shoulders to near the apices, 

 but with the carina incurved medially. The clothing consists of fine 

 brassy setae, scarcely apparent on the thorax. 



When the thorax of this species is compared with that of P. sil- 

 vanoides, it will be noticed that the three or four dentiform projec- 

 tions on the sides of the latter are quite absent, and that it is 

 shorter and broader. The prevailing colour on the elytra is tes- 

 taceous-brown. 



Length, nearly 2^ lines ; breadth, nearly f line. 



Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager sent me a mutilated specimen from the 

 vicinity of Port Nicholson. 



Group— LATHRIDIID.^. 



Corticaria (p. 234). 



1362. C. tarsaiis, n.s. Sub-ovate, a little convex, shining, 

 sparingly clothed with long, erect greyish hairs ; variegate, chiefly 

 reddish-brown, a considerable portion of the elytra pitchy-brown, 

 shoulders testaceous, legs infuscate-red, tarsi (save the fuscous 

 apical joint) yellowish, two basal joints of antennas fusco-testaceous, 

 the others darker. 



Head nearly as broad as the widest part of the thorax, coarsely 

 punctate ; eyes very large and prominent. Antenncz bearing dark 

 elongate hairs ; basal joint robust, swollen, second smaller, joints 

 3-6 slender and elongate, 6-8 small; cluh elongate, its two basal 

 joints swollen at the base but abruptly narrowed (almost cylindrical) 

 beyond, eleventh joint ovate. Prothorax about as long as broad, its 

 sides rounded, a good deal narrowed apically; uneven, coarsely 

 punctured, with two dorsal foveae, one behind the other, and a 

 larger one at each side near the middle. Scutellum distinct, 

 smooth. Elytra cordate, narrowed towards the base, shghtly but 

 broadly depressed before the middle, coarsely punctate. Legs 



