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gatus ; prothorace minus elongato lateribus eequaliter rotundatis; elytris apicem 
versus fere enodulosis, apice oblique albido. Long. 43 m.m. 
Rostrum densely squamose, not visibly carinate. Thorax rather short and 
small; strongly transverse; much narrower than the elytra; the sides rounded, 
the greatest width near the middle; the front margin a little constricted, and 
rather narrower than the base; the surface densely squamose, a little variegate, 
there being a vague abbreviated lateral white vitta, and within this at the 
base a dark fuscous spot. Elytra also variegate, the sutural region being in 
greater part fuscous, and the lateral pallid grey, nearly white; the third inter- 
stice has a very minute obsolete nodosity in front of the declivity, but there 
is none at all on the fifth; the setosity is well marked. The antenne are 
dark-red, the third jot shorter than the second; the eighth not so long as 
broad. Allied to C. obliquesignatus, but much smaller, with shorter thorax 
and antennee. 
Otago, Professor Hutton ; Auckland, Lawson. 
C. obliquesignatus, Schon., is evidently a variable species ; it has an elongate thorax and antenne, 
the greatest width of the former in front of the middle: I have the species from Auckland and Christ- 
church, as well as intermediate localities : a variety, or possibly a distinct species, has shorter antenne 
and thorax ; this I have from Auckland and Otago. The type form of C. brevicornis, as above described, 
is from Otago; the specimen from Auckland is a variety with still shorter and thicker antenne, so as 
to make a considerable approach to Protolobus; the example is apparently dirty, and it may possibly 
be a distinct species; an example from Otago agrees with it. Broun gives a description of a C. obliquis, 
Schon. (Man. N. Z. Col., p. 428) ; but Schonherr described only one species, C. obliquesignatus, which 
s given by Broun on p. 693. Some years ago I received examples of C. obliquesignatus from Broun, 
with the information that they were found on the ngaeho-tree. 
Catoptes scutellaris, n. sp. — Minus gracilis, pallide fusco-squamosus apice 
pallidiore ; prothorace subrugoso; elytris thorace latioribus, disco minus con- 
vexo, seriatim remote punctatis, ante apicem nodulis parvis quatuor munitis. 
Long. 6 m.m. 
Antenne rather elongate, second joint longer than the third, eighth nearly 
as long as broad. Thorax nearly one-fourth broader than long; the sides a 
good deal rounded and much narrowed in front, less so behind. Elytra broad, 
distinctly flat on the dise; scutellum rather broad, and touched on each side 
by a minute swelling of the wing-case, furnished with distinct rows of rather 
distant punctures, and with two quite distinct distant small tubercles on each 
placed on the same level, and forming only a slight curve transversely ; setosity 
of the surface indistinct. 
Though similar to the Auckland form of C. obliquesignatus in colour, this 
is a very distinct species, approximating in form to Brachyolus punctipennis : 
the more rugose thorax, and larger scutellum are easy and certain marks for 
distinguishing it from C. obliquesignatus. 
Otago, Professor Hutton; a single example. 
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