Species of New- Zealand Coleoptera. 51 



antennis prothorace vix longioribus, articuHs duobus basalibiis 

 validis, secundo diraidio breviore ; prothorace paulo longiore quam 

 latiore, lateribus rotuiidatis ; elytris postice paalo gradatim lati- 

 oribus. Long. 2h lin. 



Hah. Christcliurch. 



Eleale opiloides. 



E. elongata, seneo-fusca, fulvo-varia, vage breviter pilosa; autennis 

 modice elongatis,clava laxe articulata ; capite prothoraceque con- 

 fertim punctatis, hoc capite angustiore, basi angiisto, in medio 

 fulvo ; scutello cordiforrai ; elytris tortiter punctatis, apicem versus 

 paulo gradatim latioribus, fasciis duabus apiceque fulvis notatis ; 

 pedibus fulvis. Long. 2\ lin. 



Hah. Christchurcli, Auckland. 



Not unlike a small individual of 02nlus mollis. The genus 

 is somewhat doubtful. 



ECTOMIDA. 



Gharacteres gcnerici fere ut in Pristodero, sed tarsis tibiisque aliis, 

 soil, articulis duobus basalibus conjunctis triangulum breviuscu- 

 lum formantibus, tertio parvo, angusto ; tibiis extus compressis, 

 margine exteriore deuticulatis. 



Dermestes scaber^ Fab.*, is congeneric with Pristoderus ant- 

 arcticus, White ; Erichson's Ulonotus is probably founded on 

 one of these two (he does not describe any species) ; Lacor- 

 daire, indeed, suggested the identity of these genera. In 

 Pristoderus the tarsi are simply linear, and the tibiaj filiform, 

 not denticulate externally. The species here described is re- 

 markable on account of the dilatation, deeply divided into 

 lobes, of the sides of the prothorax ; tlie insect varies in colour 

 from uniform yellowisli testaceous to brownish or with brown- 

 ish patches. 



Ectomida lacerata. 



E. oblonga, depressa, subtestacea, aliquando infuscata vel fusco 

 variegata, subtiliter tomentosa ; capite tuberculis parvis instructo ; 

 antennis articulis duobus basalibus crassis, tertio ad octavum grada- 

 datira brevioribus, clava fusca, articulis duobus basalibus valde 



* "Nova HoUandia " is given as the habitat ; but the type in the British 

 Museum is the only individual I have seen. Dermestes limbatits, Fab. 

 (Ent. Syst. i. p. 284) is either my Phycosecis diseoiclea or P. ntomaria (ante, 

 vol. xvi. pp. 213, 214). I incline to the former ; but Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, 

 who has carefully compared them, thinlvs it is the latter ; the two speci- 

 mens in the British Museum are barely recognizable. Fabricius must 

 have been labouring under difficulties when, in describing these two 

 species from the Banksian collection, he refen-ed them to DermesteSj with 

 which, it is almost needless to say, they have no affinitv. 



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