1394 COLEOPTEKA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



with scanty pubescence, joints 4-8 differ but little in length but 

 become slightly broader, club oblong, slightly infuscate. 



Varieties. — Head and thorax chestnut-red, elytra with less black 

 on the dorsum. Mr. Sandager thinks this is the male. 



No. 2. Almost wholly castaneous, with two dark vittye on the 

 elytra. Found at Taieri by Mr. S. W. Fulton. 



No. 3. Quite pallid throughout ; hind angles of thorax more 

 rounded. Mr. T. Chalmer, near Dunedin. 



These three forms are, at present, represented by single speci- 

 mens, or by broken ones, so that I treat them as one variable 

 species just now. They were all found on Veronica. 



Length, 1^ lines ; breadth, f line. 



Moeraki. Sandager ; four examples. 



