BTA Capt. T. Broun on new 
While it is not possible to trace the history of every cell 
from first to last, we have as ample evidence as we could 
hope from sections that the function of the follicle of Salpa is 
exclusively nutritive, that it is transitory and embryonic, and 
that the tissues of the embryo are not built up out of follicle- 
cells, but from blastomeres, after the analogy of all the rest 
of the animal kingdom. 
LVI.—Descriptions of new Coleoptera from New Zealand. 
By Captain THos. Broun. 
{Continued from p. 302. | 
Group Cryptorhynchide. 
Acalles integer, sp. n. 
Convex, piceous, variegate; squamosity hair-like, mostly 
yellowish red; at the base of the thorax, near each side and 
near each shoulder, there are pale streaks, and there is a 
similar but less distinct and much interrupted one between 
the hind thighs; near the top of the posterior declivity there 
is a large dark band which does not reach che middle; there 
are also numerous erect, not coarse, variegate sete on the legs 
as well as on the body; antenne and tarsi reddish. 
ftostrum shorter than the thorax, with a median carina, 
more or less squamose and punctate. Antenne implanted 
behind the middle ; scape short, incrassate towards the apex ; 
funiculus elongate, second joint as long as the first but much 
more slender, 3 to 7 decrease in length; club elongate-ovate. 
Thorax longer than broad, widest behind the middle, more 
(but very gradually) narrowed towards the front than it is 
near the base, its punctuation close and rugose; the apex is 
rounded, the base truncate. Scwtellum absent. Hlytra very 
shghtly broader than the thorax at the base, widest and much 
rounded between the middle and hind legs, from thence they 
are gradually but a good deal narrowed; the hind declivity 
is not at all abrupt; they are rather deeply and regularly 
striate, the punctuation (owing to the clothing) is indefinite. 
Legs robust, elongate ; femora long and thick, not dentate ; 
front tibiz incurved, the others flexuous ; tarsi slender, third 
joint a good deal expanded and bilobed. 
Underside with depressed, tawny, hair-like scales. Meta- 
