(Cyaihea) and to the so-called " native flax " [Phormium 

 tenax Forst.). A single species of the curious genus Rhyncho- 

 gonus, whose head-quarters are in the Hawaiian Islands, has 

 been found in New Zealand, and another has recently been 

 met with in the Kermadec Islands to the northward. The 

 Cryptorrhynchina are also very fully represented, especially 

 Acalles and the allied genera, which include some very fine 

 endemic forms. There are five species of the small but 

 remarkable family Rhysodidae, a large number for a single 

 limited region, and one of the very few members of the very 

 aberrant family Aglycyderidae {A. ivoUastoni Sharp) is found 

 rarely on the tree-ferns, the only other two species occurring 

 in such remote localities as New Caledonia and the Canary 

 Islands. The Anthribidae also include a considerable number 

 of interesting insects, nearly all, however, being of small size ; 

 and in the Colydiidae and the Pselaphidae especially, the 

 industrious researches of the present school of New Zealand 

 Coleopterists, notably among them the late Major Broim, have 

 revealed a wealth of species j^robably unequalled anywhere else 

 in the world in singularity of form and diversity of structure. 



COMPAKATIVE TABLE OF EEPRESENTATION IN 

 CERTAIN GROUPS OF COLEOPTERA 



In this connection it may be interesting to compare the 

 representation of some of the principal families and sub- 



