OF NEW ZEALAND. 953 



elevated, each with an obsolete costa, theh whole surface punctate. 

 Tibia straight, claws appendiculate at base. Underside rufo-fuscous, 

 sparsely pubescent, punctate, the metasternum most obviously. 



The peculiar coloration renders its identification quite easy. 



Length, f line ; breadth, nearly J. 



Found near Howick, amongst decaying leaves, &c. 



1717- C. gilvipes, 'i-s. Shining, blackish, head reddish-brown, 

 legs and antennse yellow, club fuscous ; clothed with fine greyish 

 hairs. 



Head distinctly but not closely punctated, the interstices finely 

 sculptured ; eyes large and convex. Antennm of moderate length, 

 the first two joints stout ; 3-8 slender and differing but little from 

 one another ; tenth round, rather shorter than ninth ; eleventh 

 largest. Thorax about as long as broad, a little depressed before 

 the base, the base marginated, its sculpture similar to that of the 

 head. Elytra broader than thorax, much longer than broad, mar- 

 gined, shoulders shghtly raised ; their punctation almost arranged 

 in rows, with smooth intervals. 



Similar to C. erythrocephala, but in that species the spaces 

 between the punctures on the head and thorax are perfectly smooth, 

 the elytra are more convex, with long upstanding hairs, and the 

 antennas are more elongate, and the joints, therefore, differ in shape. 



Length, f line ; breadth, J. 



Habitat, near Howick. 



Group— DERMESTID^. 

 Trogoderma (p- 240). 



1718. T. punctata, ?i-s. Convex, oblong-oval, sub-opaque, 

 black, clothed with fine ash-coloured hairs, legs and antennae piceo- 

 fuscous, but with joints 2-5 of these latter, and the tarsi, fusco- 

 testaceous. 



Head rather coarsely and closely punctured ; antennae short, 

 bearing black pubescence ; joints 6-10 transverse, each articulated at 

 the middle ; eleventh oblong, its extremity rounded. Prothorax 

 much narrowed anteriorly, its sides almost straight, the lateral 

 margins distinct and sub-crenulate, basal lobe prominent ; its 

 sculpture similar to that of the head. Scutellum triangular, finely 

 strigose. Elytra clothed with black and cinereous hairs, the basal 

 punctation like that of the head but becoming finer and more 

 distant behind. Under-surfacc black, sculptured like the upper, 

 clothed with pale yellowish hairs. Tarsi and tibiae moderately 

 slender, claws yellow. 



5 . Tarsi testaceous, joints 7-10 of the antennae transverse, 

 eleventh rounded. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, f. 



Taken off Leptospermum near Howick. 



1719. T. SUffusa, "-s. Sub-opaque, blackish, most of the 

 elytra castaneous, legs and joints 2-6 of the antennge testaceous, the 



14 PT. IV. 



