OF NEW ZEALAND. 1147 



Group-TELEPHORIDiE. 



Asilis. 



A. COlorata, "-s. Elongate, depressed, slightly nitid ; the 

 thorax, two basal joints of the antennas, and most part of the legs 

 testaceous; the. tarsi, basal half of femora, a.nd extremity of tibige 

 infuscate ; the rest of the body aiad aatennte blackish. 



Head very smooth, its punctation very fine and indistinct. 

 Thorax transverse, margined, its lateral margins raised and 

 thickened but ending abruptly behind, thus leaving a short sinus 

 or notch just before the posterior angles, apex widely rounded ; its 

 punctation fine and distant ; it is clothed with fine yellow hairs. 

 Elytra elongate, widest behind ; their sculpture dense, rugose, con- 

 sisting apparently of minute granular elevations and punctures. 



Underside nearly black, clothed with cinereous hairs. Front 

 and middle co.voi elongate, contiguous, the hind pair broader and 

 shorter and almost touching each other. Sternum with a large, 

 deep, triangular cavity in front reaching the middle coxae, the sides 

 of this excavation broadly margined and yellowish. Metasterniivi 

 raised nearly in the form of a crescent in the middle. Epipleurce 

 broad, densely and rather coarsely sculptured. Three basal seg- 

 ments of abdomen transversely concave. 



Length, 2J-2-| lines ; breadth, |— 1 line. 



Northcote and Howick. Three examples. 



Obs. — The name Aclytia (page 326) having been used before, 

 Asilis is substituted. The genus Asilis includes Nos. 591, 592, &c. 

 In A. fulvithorax the head bears numerous wrinkles, in A. colorata 

 there are none, besides which the forehead is moi'e produced and 

 plane. 



Group— MELYRIDiE . 

 Dasytes. 



2035. D. helmsi, "-i- [SJiarp ; Trans. Ent. Soc, 1882, Part i., 

 p. 66.) Elonijatus, angustulus, postice latior, opacus, supra pur- 

 pureo-niger ; subtus niger, violaceo-tinctus ; autennis uigris ; supra 

 tenuissime pubescens, elytris crebrius parum argute punctatis. 



Long., 6mm. 



Antcmice extending quite to the hind margin of the thorax, black, 

 a little thickened towards the extremity, the penultimate joint not 

 twice as long as broad. Head rather elongate, about half as broad 

 as the wing-cases, narrowed behind the eyes. Thorax nearly as 

 broad as long, much constricted in front, the basal and lateral mar- 

 gins very distinct, but the latter becomes indistinct at the anterior 

 constriction or impression, the surface very indistinctly punctured 

 and finely pubescent. Elytra closely and rather finely punctate, 

 but the punctuation indistinct, although somewhat rugulose ; the 

 pubescence very indistinct. Legs long and slender, nearly black 

 above, deep-blue beneath. 



