OP NEW ZEALAND. 1323 



Ashburton. Described from a pair found amongst Phormium 

 tcnax by Mr. W. W. Smith, whose name it bears. 



2326. T. hampdenensis, 'i-^'- Shining oeneo-viridis, some- 

 times quite brilhant, underside black tinged witli green, legs and 

 trochanters piceo-rufous, antenna? and palpi more rufescent. 



This species is nearly related to No. 1687, but is larger and 

 more brilliant, and is distinguishable by the strongly dentiform 

 humeral angles, which in No. 1687 are only very slightly pro- 

 minent. The head is large and almost smooth, the frontal im- 

 pressions are shallow ; the labrum is truncate ; the eyes are pro- 

 minent, with rapidly-contracted orbits. The thorax in width exceeds 

 the length by about one-fourth, it is incurved at the base and apex ; 

 its sides are moderately strongly curved and not deeply sinuated 

 posteriorly, and the hind angles are slightly projecting; the 

 marginal channels are rather deep and broad, more so than in 

 No. 1687 ; its widest part is just before the middle, and the base is 

 quite as broad as the front ; there is a well-marked curvate frontal 

 impression where the distinct dorsal furrow terminates, the basal 

 fossfB are large and the intervening space is somewliat depressed. 

 Elytra very little curved laterally, with fine but distinct punctures 

 in the rather strongly impressed strite ; interstices convex, the 

 alternate ones slightly broader than the others, the third with three, 

 the seventh with five or six, punctures. Legs moderately stout, hind 

 tibiae very slightly twisted. 



Prosternum with seta at tip. Scutellum striate at base. Last 

 segment with a row of four hispid punctures in each sex. 



(? . Length, 10^- ; breadth, 3i lines. 



Hampden, near Moeraki. Found under logs by Mr. Sandager. 



2327. T. haplopus, 'i-^- Subohlong, only a little convex, 

 shining, quite black, legs and antennas rufo-piceous, tarsi and palpi 

 reddish. 



Head of moderate size, nearly smooth, frontal impressions 

 shallow. Thorax one-fourth broader than long, widest near the 

 front, its sides only moderately rounded, sinuously narrowed 

 behind, the basal angles blunt, just rectangular ; the dorsal groove 

 is well marked almost to the apical margin, the curvate frontal im- 

 pression is distinct, the basal fossae are large, and the intervening 

 space is depressed ; there are numerous very faint linear marks across 

 the surface. Elytra nearly twice as long as they are broad, their 

 sides but little curved ; they are not deeply striate, the punctures are 

 very small, the four sutural, on each, are rather wide and unin- 

 terrupted at the apex, but all are more or less feeble at the base ; 

 the interstices nearly plane, the third with three, the seventh with 

 six or seven, setigerous punctures. Lega stout, simple. 



Larger and flatter than T. liampdenensis, not in the least leneous ; 

 the eyes are not so prominent, the gente are swollen below them ; 

 the sides of the thorax are less rounded, and its base and apex 

 are less incurved ; the elytral sculpture too is different. The 



