lU-t SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Colcuptent. 



it is attached to the head ; joints 2-4 slender, 2nd rather the stoutest and shortest ; 

 5th ahnost as long as the 4th, but slightly thicker ; joints 6-10 evidently shorter 

 and broader than the preceding one ; the terminal about one-half longer than the 10th. 

 Terminal articulations of the maxillary and labial palpi broadly oval. There are 

 no well-marked excavations of the basal ventral segment for the accommodation 

 of the legs during repose, these parts being punctated and on the same plane, or 

 nearly so, as the rest of the surface ; the legs during retraction are received under 

 the raised margin of the coxal lamina. The tip of the prosternal process is fitted 

 into an angular frontal cavity of the mesosternum. The intermediate coxne are 

 more widely separated than the posterior. 



Underside bronzed black, distinctly punctured. 4th and 5th ventral segments 

 broadly impressed at each side. 



Length, 3f lines ; breadth. 2 lines. 



Carnley Harboiir ; under logs. 



One mounted specimen received from Mr. Hudson ; a second, pinned, was 

 submitted for inspection by Dr. W. Benham, who found it at Erebus Cove, Auck- 

 land Island. 



Liochoria longula, sp. nov. (Plate III, figs. 2-4.) 



Body only moderately convex, sparingly clothed with minute erect yellow setae, 

 shining, cupreous, the head and posterior portion of elytra more or less viridescent. 

 legs and basal joint of antennae rufo-piceous, the tarsi and last 6 joints of the 

 antennae castaneous. 



This resembles L. suniptuosa, but is considerably larger ; the el;ytra are more 

 attenuate and slightly compressed behind, so that the apical margins appear slightly 

 explanate, or broader than the upper portion. There is no sutural depression behind 

 the scutellum, which is larger, of somewhat cordiform outline, and acute at the 

 extremity. The head is more closely punctured behind, has a large smooth coppery 

 space on the middle, a wide curved feeble impression between the eyes, and 2 trans- 

 verse obHque frontal foveae. The thorax is rather more closely punctured. The 

 darker spots on the elytra are less smooth, and their whole surface is more of a reddish- 

 coppery hue. The antennae are shorter, joints 2 to 6 are obviously thicker, whilst 

 joints 7 to 10 are quadrate instead of being rather longer than broad. The mandibles 

 are bifid at the extremity. The basal and lateral grooves of the large labrum are not 

 as broad. 



I do not think it is the female of L. sumptuosa, as I consider the ridging of tlie 

 elytral suture, also well developed in this specimen, a male character. 



Length, 4| lines ; breadth, 2^ lines. 



Carnley Harbour ; under a log. 



One mutilated individual, on cardboard, sent to me by Mr. Hudsmi. 



Group MELOLONTHIDAE. 



Odontria, White. 



Mentimi obtrapezoidal, its ligular part very much narrower than the other, 



oblique and sinuated in front. External lobes of the maxillae furnished with 4 or 5 



teeth. Last joint of the labial palpi oval, that of the maxillary oblong-oval. 



