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sides, with a large cavity behind, there are no well-marked antennal 

 furrows. The clypeus is emarginate, but the labrum is rounded. 

 The buccal cavity appears to be so completely covered that the 

 trophii cannot be seen. 



The hind-body is slightly raised across the middle, so that the 

 parts in front and behind it appear depressed. The interstices are 

 not nodose, nor are any of them conspicuously carinate. 



There are three or four allied genera whose descriptions I have 

 been unable to obtain. I believe this species represents a new genus 

 near Lathridius. 



Length, -J; breadth, f line. 



Maketu, Hunua Kange. It lives amongst decaying leaves on the 

 ground. 



Holoparamecus (Gen., p. 2.31). 



2511. H. CastaneuS, ^'-s. Shining, rufo-castaneous, legs and 

 antenna? pale yellowish-brown, palpi and tarsi yellow; sparsely 

 clothed with short grey hairs. 



Head distinctly, rather finely, but not closely punctured, its 

 frontal suture almost quite straight ; it is darker than the rest of the 

 body, but the labrum is pale. Antenna with the two basal joints 

 cylindric and nearly equal, joints 3-8 differ but little, except that 

 the fifth is rather larger than the contiguous ones ; ninth transverse, 

 twice the width of the eighth ; tenth reddish, large ; eleventh also 

 large, not quite as broad as the tenth, it is nearly yellow. Thorax 

 rather longer than broad, its sides rounded, but much contracted 

 behind ; it is indistinctly punctured, near each hind angle there is 

 an elongate fovea, at the middle of the base there are four minute 

 fovCcB, two of which are placed in front of the others, this part ap- 

 pears a little depressed. Scutellum rounded behind. Elytra elon- 

 gate, shoulders rounded, widest before the middle, gradually 

 narrowed posteriorly ; sutural stria? well marked, and appearing as 

 if they were curved outwards near the base, their punctuation ill- 

 defined and indistinct. Legs simple. 



Though very similar to H. lucidus in appearance the antennae are 

 materially different. 



Length, ^ ; breadth, ^ line. 



Mokohinou Island. One example, from Mr. Sandager. 



Gronp-BYRRHID^ . 



Cnrimus (Gen., p. 24.3j. 



2512. C. Squaniifer, ''-s. Broad, suboblong, narrowed towards 

 both extremities, only moderately convex ; densely covered with 

 minute, flat, dark or grey scales, these conceal the sculpture, there 

 are also many slender erect grey seta? ; the surface beneath the 

 squama? is black and shining, legs and antennae rufo-piceous. 



Head narrow, finely margined in front, indistinctly sculptured, 

 the forehead bears a row of slender grey setae. Eyes not at all pro- 



