OF NEW ZEALAND. 1361 



Length (rost. incl.), If lines ; breadth, | Hue. 

 Moeraki. One example has been placed at my disposal by Mr. 

 Sandager. 



Tigones (Gen., p. 855). 



2382. T. cavelli, 'i-i'- Opaque, nsnallj chestnut-red; densely 

 covered ■svith liat round scales, which on some parts are nearly 

 white, on others almost fawn-coloured ; there are also numerous 

 erect, but not coarse, fuscous and pallid setae. 



This species differs from Dr. Sharp's Protophormus gracilis in 

 several details. The rostrum has a fine but quite distinct carina. 

 The intermediate as well as the front tihice are obviously flexuous. 

 There is no pale fascia between the hind thighs, and the fifth inter- 

 stices are scarcely at all raised behind. The scuteHum is covered 

 with hair-like scales. The underside is clothed with oviform grey 

 scales and depressed setae. The mctastermnn is convex, witli a 

 fovea-like depression behind. Abdomen nearly plane. 



The thorax is just about as long as it is broad, cylindrical, a 

 little constricted in front, and very slightly rounded at the sides ; its 

 punctuation is concealed. The elytra are nearly twice the width of 

 the thorax at the base, and are very gradually narrowed from the 

 shoulders backwards ; their punctuation is moderately fine and 

 regularly serial. 



Fem. Elytra broader, oblong, apices prolonged and divergent. 

 The two basal ventral segments slightly convex, the others on a 

 lower level, with very broad deep sutures. Front and middle tibiae 

 only slightly bent. 



3 . Length (rost. inch), 2|^ lines ; breadth, |^ line. 



Westland. Named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. A. T. Cavell, 

 of Boatman's. 



Obs. — The coloration seems to be variable, the squamosity on 

 the thorax of one specimen being slightly tinged with green, in 

 another it is of nearly the same colour as the derm. 



2383. T. obscura, '^-s- Opaque, densely clothed with small, 

 depressed, dark-fuscous, very pale brown, and a few grey scales ; 

 these last form a patch inside the shoulders along the front of the 

 base ; the scutellum is greyish ; apex of rostrum, and the antennae, 

 reddish, the tarsi rufo-castaneous. 



Bostruvi feebly ridged. Thorax almost as long as broad, rather 

 wider just before the middle than it is elsewhere, slightly constricted 

 in front, hardly at all uneven above, its punctuation entirely con- 

 cealed ; it bears a few fine, erect, fuscous setae. Elytra twice the 

 breadth of the thorax at the base, nearly parallel-sided as far as the 

 hind thighs, from thence narrowed, with simple apices; their series 

 of punctures are comparatively small and narrow, with a minute 

 decumbent grey seta in each puncture ; the suture is a little raised 

 posteriorly, the interstices have brown or greyish upright setiB, the 

 third and fifth are not distinctly elevated, but there is a small tuft 

 below the top of the declivity on the fifth interstice. 



