872 COLEOPTERA 



bright-yellow hairs. Scutcllum pubescent. Elytra, except near the 

 base, with exceedingly short inconspicuous hairs ; broadest at the 

 shoulders, from behind these gradually incurved to within a short 

 distance of the apices, not attenuated posteriorly ; apices rounded 

 singly, uncovering the last dorsal segment ; disc plane, densely 

 rugose-jDunctate, each with three dorsal costse, and a fourth, obsolete 

 at the shoulders, recurved at the extremity so as to be continuous 

 with the raised 'suture. Legs elongate, slender; femora with de- 

 pressed greyish, the tibiae and tarsi with fulvous, hairs. Underside 

 castaneous, clothed with short griseous hairs ; head and prosternum 

 red, transversely wrinkled. 



Length, gf lines ; breadth, if. 



I captured my sj)ecmien at Tuakau, Waikato. 



Group— LAMIID^ . 



Hybolasius (p- 609). 



1552. H. apicalis, n.s. Elongate-oblong, sub-depressed, 

 slightly nitid ; fusco-piceous, elytral tubercles and apices of a 

 chestnut colour ; base of femora and all but the basal joint of the 

 antennas a little rufescent. 



Head granulated. Prothorax broader than long, with an 

 obtuse tubercle on each side behind the middle, transversely 

 impressed near base and apex, disc with three obtuse elevations, 

 granulated. Elytra moderately punctated to the extremity, 

 densely clothed with cinereous hairs, with two smooth, com- 

 pressed, basal tubercles, their apices a little prolonged aird uot 

 contiguous. Antenna elongate, bearing fine long hairs, their basal 

 joint elongate-pyriform, second very short, third and fourth very 

 long, the others decreasing in bulk. Legs clothed with grey hairs, 

 thighs inflated. 



Allied to No. 1075, smaller; elytral tubercles nude, but well 

 developed ; on each elytron there is an indistinctly raised longi- 

 tudinal space more glossy, and with rather fewer punctures on it 

 than the other parts of the surface. Their pubescence has a tendency 

 to form two or three lateral spots of the same colour as the apices, 

 and they bear some elongate grey hairs near the sides and apex. 



Length, 2|- lines ; breadth, f. 



Described from one sample found by Mr. W. D. Campbell, 

 Bay of Islands. 



1553- H.piceus, 'Z-s. Narrow, sub-depressed, obscure-piceous; 

 antenna?, legs, and elytral discs more or less rufescent, clothed with 

 fine ash-coloured pubescence, rather inconspicuous ; the legs, 

 antennas, and apices of elytra bearing elongate grey hairs, the palpi 

 fulvescent. 



Head densely granulated. Protliorax small, densely granu- 

 lated, obtusely tuberculate laterally, its disc indistinctly tri- 

 tuberculate, base and apex reddish. Elytra elongate, apices a little 

 produced, acutely rounded, and not contiguous ; their surface nearly 

 plane, broadly depressed before the middle, punctated, basal 



