Coleoptera from New Zealand. 391 
S. ptinoides, Bates, is of the same form, but it has a minute 
denticle on each side of the thorax. The only other near ally 
is S. spinicollis ; it is distinguishable by the acute projecting 
thoracic spines. 
Length 13-2, breadth 3-3 lines. 
Ohaupo, Waikato: Ore le and two females found near 
Mr. Kusab’s saw-mill, January 1893. 
Group Eumolpide. 
Eucolaspis vittiger, sp. n. 
Convex, broadly oval, testaceous; the suture and a broad 
vitta near “he side of spd elytron dark fuscous, on the thorax 
there are two oblique vitte of a paler brown. 
Head rather finely punctate. Thorax strongly transverse, 
moderately narrowed anteriorly, the sides finely margined 
and but little curved; a large median space in front of the 
base has very few punctures, the sides sometimes are quite 
impunctate; the punctuation elsewhere is not coarse, nor is 
it close; sometimes the punctures are quite distant from one 
another.  Scutellum longer than broad, smooth. lytra 
gradually narrowed posteriorly ; the sutural striz are distinct 
behind, but hardly extend forwards beyond the middle; the 
punctures are moderately coarse, near the base they are irre- 
gularly distributed, behind they generally become quite 
serial, so that the apical portion is substriate; along the 
suture the punctures are smaller and closer. Tibie nearly 
straight, gradually thickened towards the extremity ; the 
hind face of the posterior has finely carinate edges, so that 
the space between these appears flattened or grooved. 
Length 2-24, breadth 1} lines. 
Hunua Range. 
This is one of many insects that injure our fruit-trees, and 
most likely is little more than a variety of /. ochracea. 
Eucolaspis picticornis, sp. n. 
Robust, suboblong, convex, shining, violaceous; labrum 
and knees pale castaneous ; tibize and tarsi fuscous ; antenne 
nearly black, the tips of joints 1 to 10 testaceous. 
Head distinctly but iregularly punctured. Antenne 
elongate, rather slender, second joint longer than broad, 6 to 
10 slightly expanded towards the extremity. Thorax trans- 
verse, widest near the base, gradually narrowed anteriorly, 
the sides rather broadly margined, very slightly rounded 
behind ; its surface rather coarsely and irregularly punctured, 
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