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NEW ZEALAND COLEOPTEEA. 



PART IV. 



Group-CICINDELID^. 



Cicindela (p. i). 



145 1. C. campbelli, n.s. Sub-depressed, sub-oblong; legs and 

 antennae bright aeneous, elytra variegate, head and throat cupreous, 

 and, like the underside, bearing many white bristles. 



Head densely, finely, and rugosely sculptured ; labrum tes- 

 taceous, with rounded angles, its middle part obtusely produced, 

 with an acute median tooth. Protlwrax transversely impressed 

 near the base and apex, with a fine dorsal groove, its sculpture 

 similar to that of the back part of the head. Elytra oblong, widest 

 behind; each elytron emarginated at the apex, with a sutural spine 

 not protruding beyond the extremity : the whitish band proceeds 

 from the shoulder but a short distance, and is then obliquely 

 prolonged inwardly to the middle, from thence it is continued nearly 

 to the extremity ; the lateral stripe is distinct from the humeral one, 

 and is continued right round to the suture, sending forth a narrow 

 band to unite with the central one, and is also prolonged inwardly 

 from the outer part of the apex, thus insulating a narrow oblique 

 space before the middle and a much larger longitudinal one behind : 

 there are no tubercles cfii their surface, but they have the usual 

 sutural row of green foveoles and others near the shoulders and 

 sides. 



Allied to C. loerliispida. 



Length, 4-5 lines ; breadth, if. 



Three individuals were caught at Waikato Heads by Mr. W. D. 

 Campbell, of Ponsonby, Auckland ; they are terribly mutilated, and 

 covered with particles of sand and the entrails of some soft-bodied 

 creatures that had been placed in the collecting-bottle with them. 

 It has been a difficult matter to determine the coloration. 



Gronp-CNEMACANTHID-^. 

 Mecodema (p. 7)- 



1452. M. venator, "••5- Elongate, somewhat convex; glossy 

 pitchy-black, legs picoo-rufous, tips of palpi dilute in colour. 



Head a little constricted behind the eyes, and on that part 

 rugose-punctate ; the occiput transversely, andits sides longitudinally, 

 wrinkled. Prothoro.v cordate, liroadly rounded laterally, very much 



