OF NEW ZEALAND. 11/jO 



capite tlioraceque subtiliter minus crebi-e punctatis. subopacis ; clt/tris 

 obsolete striato-punctatis vix nitidis, vix tuberculato-elevatis. 



Long., 12mni. 



This is distinguished from all the other species by the com- 

 paratively obsolete sculpture. 



Castle Hill. Envs. 



Group-HELEID^. 

 Cilibe. 



2047. C. marginalis, >i-s. Nithl, pitchy-red, thoracic disc 

 darker, lateral margins and legs reddish, antennae and palpi paler. 



Somewhat similar to C. elomjata. The head more finely and not 

 so closely punctured. Terminal joints of antcnncE as long as they 

 are broad. Tliorax widest behind the middle, gradually narrowed 

 anteriorly, less narrowed behind ; posterior angles acute, the 

 anterior more prominent than in C. elongata; the punctuation finer 

 and more distant, quite remote on the disc, but larger and rugose at 

 the sides ; the sides themselves more explanate, with broad regular 

 channels. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, very little 

 expanded behind the middle ; not distinctly costate, with many ill- 

 defined shallow strise, but sculptured very much in the same way as 

 C. elongata and C. huttom. The front and middle tibige closely 

 ciliate along the inner edge. 



The broad, regular, flattened or concave marginal channels, 

 which distinctly mark off the disc of the thorax, distinguish this 

 species from its nearest allies, C. elongata and C. liuttoni. 



Length, 5^ ; breadth, 2^- lines. 



Mokohinou Island. Mr. Sandager sent me the only individual I 

 have seen. 



Group-HELOPID-ffi. 

 Adelium. 



2048. A. niultistriatnin, n.s. {Sharp; Trans. Boy. Dub. 

 Sac, 1886, p. 409.) Obloiigmn, parallelum, aeneum, pedibus piceis, 

 antennis tarsisque rufescentibus, prothoracc subquadrato, crebrius 

 fortiter punctato, elytris regulariter fortiterque striatis, striis 

 crebrius punctatis, interstitiis angustis. 



Long., 12mm. 



This is closely allied to ,1. thoracicinii, and has a similar sculpture; 

 the thorax, hovrever, is not conspicuously narrowed behind, and the 

 elytra are remarkable by their deep, regular striation, the striae being 

 very closely punctured, aiid the interstices narrow and rather convex. 

 The punctuation of the thorax is similar to that of A. thoracicmn, 

 but rather more dense, and the sculpture of the vertex is decidedly 

 rugose. 



Picton. Helms ; one mutilated example. 



Obs.— Yerv near No. 1404.— T. B. 



