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antennz are inserted quite close to the rather large and prominent eye, which is 
sinuate in front; the thorax is small, much narrower than the after body; the 
middle coxz are but little separated, their trochantins distinct; the metasternum 
elongate, its episterna moderately broad; the hind coxz are separated by an 
angular process, and are strongly transverse ; the ventral segments are five in num- 
ber, and apparently all mobile; the basal three are of similar lengths, the fourth 
shorter, the fifth small; the epipleure are rather narrow, but become a little 
broader near the hind coxze, and cease at the margin of the fourth ventral plate ; 
the legs are remarkably elongate and slender, with minute spurs to the tibie, 
and quite simple penultimate joimt to the tarsi; the pubescence on the undersurface 
of the tarsi is but little dissimilar to that of the rest of the surface. 
The genus Chalcodrya, Redtenbacher should be located close to the present 
genus; it has the anterior acetabula closed, and it was owing to some error of 
observation that Redtenbacher stated the anterior coxe to be contiguous; they 
are, in point of fact, separated by a well-marked process of the prosternum, and 
are only moderately prominent, the process being a little immersed between 
them. 
Malacodrya pictipes, n. sp. —'Testacea, capite abdomineque fuscescentibus, 
elytris plus minusve viridi-tinctis, corpore superne pedibus antennisque fusco- 
maculatis; elytris ante apicem tuberculatis, lateribus post medium undulatis. 
Long. 6-7 m.m. (Plate xm., fig. 7.) 
Antenne nearly twice as long as head and thorax; second joint but little 
shorter than the first, all the others elongate; the terminal three a little thicker 
than the others; the apices of the joints are infuscate to a variable extent ; 
thorax much narrower than the elytra, slightly narrowed behind; the hind 
angles very obtuse; the front ones quite rounded, the surface densely punc- 
tate, a little uneven, the sides finely, the base more distinctly margined, the 
latter a little notched in front of the scutellum ; scutellum transversely triangular, 
punctate ; elytra rather closely punctate, with some dark marks on the sutural 
region; with lateral prominences close to or on the epipleure, causing the out- 
line to be undulate, and with a tubercular elevation on each in front of the 
apex ; the tibize and tarsi are pallid, but there is a large very definite dark mark 
on the middle of the former. 
Picton, Greymouth. No. 822, Helms. The only example I have seen from Greymouth differs in 
having the dark marks on the elytra a little elevated and polished, but can scarcely be more than a 
variety. The natural colour of this elegant insect is, no doubt, delicate and difficult to preserve 
after death. 
