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the middle of the carina more elevated ; with a very narrow, sharply- 

 defined carina between the middle coxae ; metastermim transversely 

 convex. 



The perfectly oval form and long slender antennas are quite in 

 accord with Nos. 279, 280, 281, and 282. 



<^. Length, i|- lines; breadth, f. 



Found near Howick, amongst dead leaves, &c. 



Group-COLYDIID^. 



Notoulus (p. 183). 



1704. N. sparsus, »-S- Oblong, moderately convex, clothed 

 with greyish and yellow setae ; variegate infuscate-red, with a large 

 blackish space on each elytron, tarsi and antennae red. 



Head granulated. Prothorax transverse, its side explanate ; 

 frontal lobe large, with a median sinuation, the next small, the basal 

 forming the angle ; the disc a little uneven, granulate. Elytra 

 punctate, each with three dorsal rows of fine setae, and, on the 

 intervals between these, three or four greyish nodules, besides the 

 usual elongate basal elevations and smaller tubercles dispersed over 

 the surface, but most apparent on the sides ; they bear also many 

 erect fuscous setae. Legs with slender brassy setae. 



This species may be confounded with No. 326 (N. ornatus) ; it is, 

 however, larger and more oblong, less convex, and the nodules on 

 the wing-cases, particularly those near the apical declivity, are 

 much less prominent ; the elytral punctures, moreover, are not 

 easily detected sometimes. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, f . 



Stratford, base of Mount Egmont. 



1705. N. libentus, n.s. Ferruginous, the head and a large 

 angular spot on each elytron blackish, tarsi and antennae red ; 

 clothed with fine, short, fulvous setae. 



Eelated to N. sjmrsus, but differentiated therefrom by being 

 wholly clothed with bright yellowish setae, by the absence of lines of 

 setae on the elytra, by tlie less evident nodules, and by the lateral 

 margins being more distinctly crenulated, &c. 



A variety exists which is more obscurely coloured, but is other- 

 wise almost similar. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, f (nearly). 



Waitakerei Eange, near Auckland. 



Ulonotus (p. 186). 



1706. U. cams, ns- Oblong, variegate, dark reddish-brown, 

 the depressed parts of hind-body blackish, clothed with fulvous 

 setiform scales, tarsi and antennae rufous, the basal joint of the 

 latter piceous, tibiae with fuscous marks. 



Head not distinctly granulated, antennal orbits prominent. 

 AntenncB moderate, exposed portion of basal joints as long as second, 

 the latter sub-quadrate ; third elongate ; joints 4-8 decrease in 

 length ; club large. Prothorax transversely convex, imlevel, mor§ 



