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j)alpi are elongate. The thorax possesses numerous 

 distinct punctures nearly evenly distributed on its sur- 

 face, except that they are wanting on a line along the 

 middle, and it has also some pale depressed clay-coloured 

 scales. The elytra are sculptured like the thorax with 

 distinct distant punctures, and bear a few clay-coloured 

 scales, distributed in an irregular manner, and also some 

 dark scales, easily overlooked in consequence of their 

 similarity to the ground colour. The club of the antenna 

 is in this sex nearly as long as the rest of the antenna. 

 The female has the head very narrow, narrower in front 

 than at the neck, the eyes very small, the mandibles 

 short but porrect, the maxillary palpi yellow, shorter 

 and thicker than in the male. The surface of the head 

 is coarsely and closely punctate, and bears rather 

 numerous ashy-coloured setse or scales. The thorax is 

 also rather coarsely and closely punctate, and bears 

 numerous elongate, narrow, ashy-coloured scales ; the 

 sculpture and clothing of the elytra are similar to those 

 of the thorax. In this sex (to judge from a single 

 individual) the colour of the legs and antennae is paler 

 than in the male. 



This curious little Lucanid cannot properly be placed 

 either in Mitophyllm, of which it has the legs, or in Cera- 

 togiiatlms, with which it agrees in some other points ; 

 but as there are, no doubt, other species to be discovered 

 in New Zealand, and as the limits of the genera of 

 lEsalides are difficult to determine, it had better remain 

 at present in Ceratognathus. Ceratognatlms alho-guttatus, 

 Bates, still, I believe, unique in collections, is probably 

 an allied species. 



Seeicospilus, n. g. {Heteronycides, Lacord.) 



Corpus elongatum, baud pubescens, subtus nitidum. 

 Oculi convexi. Antennae S-articulatae, articulo 3o quasi 

 in medio articuli quarti faciei interni inserto, hoc elon- 

 gato, sed articulo quinto multo breviore, articulis 5 — 8 

 valde elongatis, longius densiusque setulosis, clava elon- 

 gata tenui formantibus. Ligulte pars anterior angusta ; 

 palpi maxillares elongati. Metasternum elongatum. 

 Unguiculi simplices. 



This genus is allied to Odontria, but is distinct by a 

 number of characters. The elongate form, the bare 



