t>U COl.KOl'l'KHA. 



This spi'iics sliould li" jilaicil near O. .scdixs, wliicli iiuiy In' disl injiiiisliciJ 

 bv tlu" |)al('r and more rufcscciit colorat i(»ii. 

 Lcnutli, 1^ lines; breadth, \ line, 

 [{ivcrton Mcacli. One, from Mi. .\. I'lnlpott. 



'M)\i\. Ischnoderus cognatus sp. now 



I )o])resso<l, niodevali'ly tdongatc and shining ; rulo-rastatu'ou.s, hind- 

 bodv darker, its apical segment somewhat testaeeous, elytrrt slightly suf- 

 fused with l>ro\vn ; terminal (i joints of antennae opa(|ue and infuscate. 



lliiul Iiehind as l»road as thorax, narrowed in front of the slightly con 

 vex eyes, rather llat. finely and rather irregularly punctate, interant^'unal 

 impressions shallow anil indistinct, the intermediate space nearly smooth, 

 nu'dian foveae small and narrow, the oct'lli situated l»eliind these. Nrck 

 .-short and broad, minutely strigose. Thoraj- transverse, c(U'date-{|uadrato, 

 widest near the front, rounded there, slightly sinuously narrowed behind, 

 posterior angles subrectangular ; the disc distinctly bi-impressed, the narrow 

 ntervening space and the borders nearly smooth, the surface elsewhere 

 liiu'lv vet distinctly but not closely punctured ; the lateral margins dis- 

 tin(t. Scutrlhni> triangular, smooth. EIjiIki oblong, nearly doul)le the 

 length <»f thorax ; apices nuxlially subtruncate, Itut rounded towards the 

 sides ; their punctation line, »U)t quite serial, and slightly elTaced outwardly 

 near the extremity, lliml-budji a little narrower tium the wing-cases, 

 minutelv sculptured, so as to appear coriaceous, the pubescence scanty, 

 tine and yellowish, nearly smooth along the middle, on other parts with a 

 few minute scattered punctures ; the basal 3 uncovered segments broadly 

 marginated, the apical small and oluonical. Tibiae straight, obsoletely 

 spinose. 



AntrniKU' inserted below the edges of the forehead ; basal joint stout, 

 much narrowed towards its base, as long as the 2nd and 3rd combined : 2ud 

 as long as 3rd, but slightly broader; fth and 5th nutniliform. small ; (i 1<> 

 opacjue. pubescent, enlarged, transversely (juadrate : 11th conical. 



This comes near /. jultoni (1864), with more shallow interantennal 

 impressions : those on tiie thorax, however, are deeper, and the middle 

 pair of tibiae not arcuate ; those of /. fultoni are arched. 



Length, \\ lines; breadth, nearly % line. 



West Plains, Invercargill. Mr. .\. Philpott. t)ne. 



.■)047. Ischnoderus arecobius sj). nov. 



l)epres.sed. sub[)arallel. moderately broad, shining ; piceo-fuscous : hiud- 

 bodv fusco-castaneous ; the extremity of the 5th segment, the apical one, 

 and the legs and basal 5 articulations of the anteim.ie rufo-testaccous ; the 

 remaining joints dull fuscous. 



Ilnid as broad as and rather longer than thorax, the genae rounded 

 behind the prominent eyes, in front of these much narrowed ; forehead 

 minutely sculptured yet shining, the rest of the surface rather closely and 

 distinctly punctured, with 2 elongate basal foveae, and behind these the pair 

 of ocelli ; it bears a few inconspicuous slender haii-s. Avlcmuir propor- 

 tionallv stout ; basal j(»int about twice the bulk of the 2nd, 3rd obconical 

 and about as long as the preceding one. 4th and 5th bead-like, fitli longer 

 than 5th. joints 7 10 evidently enlarged and transverse. 11th conical; the 

 last <) joints with fuscous |Mibescence. Thorax transverse, with distinct 

 lateral nuirgins, rather broader and moderately rounded near the front than 

 elsewhere, naiTowed behind the middle, posterior angles rectangular ; its 

 surface a little uneven, distinctly bi-impressed along the middle, the app.i- 



