OF NKW ZEALAND. 1171 



Head broader than thorax (particuhirly in tlie male sex), middle 

 of vertex smooth and very glossy, with an indefinite frontal longitu- 

 dinal furrow, the spaces beyond distinctly punctured. Eijcs large, 

 prominent, transverse, entire. Prothorax transverse, truncate at 

 apex. Insinuated and finely margined at base, narrower in front than 

 behind, appearing as if angularly dilated just behind the middle, and 

 from thence backwards with a iDroad sinuosity; its surface uneven, 

 there being a depression which proceeds from the middle of each 

 side and is continued as a curved one in front of the base, the raised 

 parts are shining and almost smooth, but the rest of the surface is 

 evidently punctated. Elytra rather broader than head, almost 

 parallel-sided, being only a little wider behind than at the shoulders ; 

 densely, coarsely, and rugosely punctate. Legs elongate, slender, 

 two hind pairs of tibiae very slightly narrowed between the middle 

 and apex ; basal joint of posterior tarsi considerably longer than the 

 other three taken together ; they bear greyish hairs. 



Male. Antennae two-thirds of the length of the body, basal 

 articulation stout, pyriform ; second and third very short, equal ; 

 joints 4-10 elongate, cylindric, each sending forth from its centre 

 a narrow lobe very similar in form to, but longer than, the joint 

 itself ; eleventh nearly half as long again as the preceding one. 



Fern. Thorax broader, strongly transverse, of the same breadth 

 as the head. Antennae extending backwards to middle of after- 

 body ; third joint rather longer than second ; fourth longer than 

 fifth ; joints 5-10 gradually, but not greatly, dilated towards the 

 extremity, ninth and tenth least expanded ; eleventh as long as tenth. 



Length, 2| lines; breadth, f line. 



The male was found by Mr. T. F. Cheeseman on Mount Arthur ; 

 the female was captured by myself, the previous summer, on Mount 

 Egmont, at an elevation of about 3,000ft. 



Phytilea. 



Nor. (/e)t. 

 Body elonga^te, subdepressed, pubescent. Head as large as 

 thorax, abruptly contracted behind so as to form a distinct neck. 

 Lahrnm in'oininent. Palpi rather short; terminal joint of maxil- 

 lary cultriform. Eyes large, of rounded outline but deeply emar- 

 ginate in front, their greatest bulk at the sides towards the front, 

 distinctly facetted ; widely separated above by a densely-sculptured 

 depression occupying the space between the vertex and anterior 

 margin. Antennce inserted at the sides in front of the eyes, not in 

 a cavity but in a protuberance having the appearance of a false 

 basal joint ; filiform, basal articulation rather small and subpyriform ; 

 second and third joints small, conjointly hardly as long as the 

 fourth ; joints 4-11 nearly equal. Thorax small, the sides quite 

 obliquely narrowed in front ; the remaining portion quadrangular, 

 angulated in front at each side, then finely margined and incurved, 

 so that the rectangular posterior angles appear prominent ; base 

 trisinuate. Scutelluin curvilinearlv-triangular. Eh/lra broader 



