Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 59 



infuscata, articulis perfoliatis, duobus basalibus valde transversis, 

 ultimo rotundato ; prothoraee traiisverso, basi quam apice fere 

 duplo latiore ; scutello minuto ; elytris obli(pie striato-punctatis, 

 humeris paulo callosis ; pedibus pallidis, tibiis apicem versus leviter 

 incrassatis, tarsis articulo basali modice elongato. Long, l-i^ lin. 



Hah. Auckland. 



Probably introduced, as this species has also been found in 

 Ceylon ; but it has not, I think, been described. It is like 

 A. CofeiBj but smaller, with shorter antennaj, the club stouter 

 and more compact, the tarsi not nearly so long, &c. 



OCHROCYDUS. 



Caput hxeve. On;?/ permagni, subtenuiter granulati ; epistoma di\- 

 stincta ; labriim parvum ; labium membranaceum, bifidum ; max- 

 iUce lobo interiore triangulari. Palpi elougati, omnes fere sequaJes. 

 Antennce ( J ) corpore longiores, 12-articulat8e, articulo basali 

 mediocri, obconico, tertio paulo breviore, ca;teris (ultimo excepto 

 breviusculo) parum longioribus, suba^qualibus, unilateraliter dila- 

 tatis ; ( $ ) corpore breviores, ll-articulatse. Prothorax trans versus, 

 depressus, muticus. Eh/tra prothoraee latiora, elongata, subparal- 

 lela. Pedes tenuati, elongati ; femora liuearia ; tihice, posticoe 

 flexuoste exceptae, rectcC, apice bispinosas; coa-re anticas transversoe. 

 Prostenium elevatum, postice rotundatum. Abdomen moUe, 

 lagvigatum. 



The only exponent of this genus retains the name of Apha- 

 nasium austraJe^ Boisd., in the British Museum*, and as such 

 was referred by Mr. White to the Prionidaj. It is probable 

 that Lacordaire, had he known it, would have placed it in his 

 '' Monodesmides." I do so now with some hesitation in con- 

 sequence of the absence of the lateral ridges separating the 

 pronotum from the sides of the prothorax, and the presence of 

 the inner maxillary lobe. 



Ochrocydus Huttoni. 



A. fulvescens, elytris nitide testaceis ; capite prothoraccque sat 

 sparsim, pectore dense, villosis ; prothoraee angulo antico rotun- 

 dato, lateribus subparallelis ; elytris sat confertim punetatis, 

 apicibus ad suturam spinosis ; pedibus tenuiter pilosis ; tarsis 

 intermediis et posticis articulo primo quam secundo longiore ; 

 segmento ultimo abdominis in fcemina solum detecto. Long. ( c? ) 

 12 lin., ( $ ) 15 lin. 



Hah. Waikato; Wellington. 



* It was this tliat led me to describe the true Aphanasium australe as 

 a new species under the name of SoUmnia svblinenta, a mistake which I 

 afterwards corrected (Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 134). 



