On New-Zealand Coleoptera. 57 



Turkestan, being an extremely common resident in the lower 

 altitudes, up to about 4000 feet above the sea. 



58. Hystrix Mrsutirostris. 



Common throughout Turkestan; it does not frequent very 

 high-situated localities, nor does it occur in the low plains. 



[To be continued.] 



yi.—pescripions of new Genera and Species of New- 

 Zealand Coleoptera.—V&xt III. By Francis P. Pascoe. 



Tbogositid^. 

 Leperina Brounii. 



Lagbiii)^. 

 Lagrioda Brounii. 



CEdemebidje. 



Thelyphassa, n. g. 

 diaphana. 



CUBCULIONID^, 



Trachyphloeus porculus. 

 Brexius ascitus. 

 Phrynixus astutus. 

 Empaeotes, n. g. 



crispatus. 



• censorius. 



Aldonus celator. 

 Oreda brevis. 

 Hypotagea, n. g. 

 rubida. 



Eugnomus elegans. 



• picipennis. 



■ tenidus. 



Sibinia tychioides. 

 Psepholax simplex. 

 Acalles intutus. 



erroneus. 



• bystriculus. 



Tychanus, n. g, 



■ gibbus. 



ferrugatus. 



verrucosus. 



Sympedius, n. g. 



testudo. 



vexatus. 



Crisius, n. g. 



binotatus. 



Pactola demissa. 



Lamiid^. 



Xylotoles Traversii. 

 Stenellipsis pumila. 



Leperina Brounii. 

 L. castanea, capite prothoraceque fuscis, tenuiter punctatis, hoc minus 

 transverse, basi angustiore; scutello valde transverso ; elytris 

 plus minusve flavo- vel albido-squamosis, lineato-costatis, costis 

 mterruptis, punctis profunda impressis. Long. 4 Hd. 

 Hah. Tairua. 



Allied to L. sohrina, Wh. {Gymnocheila) , but with a less 

 transverse prothorax, more contracted at the base, and the 

 elytra with the cost« more interrupted, owing to the stronger 



