OF NFAV ZEALAND. 8oi 



isb, and testaceous ; the upright scales of the last -mentioned hue 

 form two protuberant crests on the summit of the posterior de- 

 clivity. Legs long and stout, densely clothed in the same way as 

 the body. 



The presence of the scutellum allies it to A. intutus, but there 

 the likeness ends. If the shoulders were not oblique, the liind- 

 body would be perfectly triangular. 



Length (rost. excl.), i^ lines; breadth, f line. 



The pair I possess were sent from the vicinity of Port Nichol- 

 son by Mr. Stewart-Sandager. 



1428. A. cinereUS, n-s. Opaque, piceous, densely clothed with 

 depressed greyish and obscure testaceous scales intermingled with 

 whitish setge ; antennae and tarsi pitchy-red ; only moderately con- 

 vex, broadly sub-ovate. 



Eostrum arched, sub-parallel, as long as thorax, rugosely punc- 

 tate. ProtJiorax as long as broad, contracted in front, sides but 

 httle rounded, feebly sinuated and depressed at the base, with ocular 

 lobes closely punctured. Elytra a little broader than thorax, with 

 nearly straight sides, gradually narrowed and deflexed behind ; disc 

 not much elevated, with rows of coarse, shallow, distant punctures ; 

 scutellar region depressed, with four small granules near that part. 

 Legs robust, scaly, the extremity of the tibiae ciliated with golden 

 hairs. Underside densely punctate and squamose. Mesosternal 

 margins of the 2^Gctoral canal elevated. Antennce. inserted before 

 the middle, and joint of funiculus quite as long as the first. 



An aberrant form. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2-| lines ; breadth, i|-. 



I took my specimen off a Leptospermum at Whangarei Heads. 



Tychanus (p- 498)- 



1429. T. SCabiosus, ^^-s- Sub-oblong, moderately convex, 

 squamose ; rufo-fuscous variegated with black ; antennae and tarsi 

 red. 



Bostrum as long as thorax, slightly dilated behind, blackish, 

 punctured in lines anteriorly, squamose behind. Scape short, rather 

 slender; basal joint oi funiculus stout, triangular, second longer 

 and more slender, seventh transversal; club oval. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, contracted in front, nearly level above, its coarse punctation 

 filled with fuscous scales ; long upright pale-brown scales are dis- 

 tributed over the sides and apex and form two median crests. 

 Elytra sub-quadrate, narrowed and depressed posteriorly, mode- 

 rately elevated near the middle, uneven, sub-striate ; with two short 

 rows of punctures on each side of the suture at the base, and some 

 ill-defined tubercular elevations elsewhere ; most of their surface 

 reddish, but with the shoulders, two basal stripes, and on each a 

 curved ante-apical streak, blackish ; the flat scales occupy most of 

 their surface, the pale erect ones the raised parts. Legs densely 

 squamose, thighs dentate. 



Like T. ferrugatus in outline, but of much rougher aspect. 



