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PLATE LVI. 
ON THE LONGICORN COLEOPTERA OF NEW ZEALAND. 
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Captain F, Parry having placed in my hands for publication 
some of the Longicorn species of beetles which he has recently 
obtained from New Zealand, I have considered that it would be 
serviceable to add to my descriptions a list of all the Longicorn 
species, hitherto described as natives of that country, which is 
accordingly given beneath, being chiefly derived from the Appendix 
to Dieffenbach’s Travels. 
Species I.—Prionus (Prionoplus) reticularis, White, in Dieff. Trav. vol. ii. App. p. 276. 
(Plate 56, fig. 1). P. piceo-fuscus; facie, pronoto, et thorace subtus pilis aureo-fuscis 
tomentosis, elytris pallide reticulatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 17—18. 
‘**This Prionus forms a section or sub-genus distinct from Sceleo- 
cantha and Toxeutes of Newman (Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 
v. pp- 14, 15), the latter founded on the Australian Prionus arcuatus, 
Fabr.; it differs essentially from Malloderes, Dupont (Guér. Mag. 
Zool. 1835, pl. 125), and <Aulacopus, Serville (Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, 1832, pp. 144, 145), of the characters of the species of 
which it partly partakes,”"-— White, op. cit. Malloderes, founded 
upon a Chilian insect, and Trichoderes of Chevrolat (Guér. Mag. 
Zool. 1848, pl. 113), upon a Mexican species, differ from the 
present in the armature of the thorax, each side of which, in our 
insect, is armed with a short spine in the centre. The eyes are of 
a very large size, the palpi short, the third and following joints of 
the antennz terminated by a short spine. The male antennz are 
rather longer than the body. All the femora are armed within at 
the tip by two short spines, and the elytra are rounded at the tips, 
with a short spine at the extremity of the suture. 
Captain Parry’s specimen is from Port Nicholson. Fig. 1 a, repre- 
sents the head seen laterally, and fig. 1 b, the underside of the head. 
Species I1.— Phoracantha dorsalis. 
Syn.—Stenochorus dorsalis, MacLeay, in Append. to King’s Survey, ii. p. 451. 
Phoracantha dorsalis, Newman, Aun. of Nat. Hist. v. p. 19; White, op. cit. p. 278. 
Species I1I].—Coptomma variegatum, White, op. cit. p. 278. 
Syy.—Callidium variegatum, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 2, 325 ; Syst. El. 2, 340; Oliv. 70, 
tab. 5, fig. 58. 
Tmesisternus var., Bdv., Guerin. 
Coptomma vitticolle, Newm. Anu, Nat. Hist., v. p. 18. 
