CICINDELIDAE. 595 



Head distinctly longitudinally strigose, the occiput rm.re finely and 

 irregularly sculptured, with very large outstanding eyes. Labrura with 

 a triangular central tooth, and a pair of elongate setae beside it, the front 

 oblique towards the sides. Thorax apparently narrow, really of about 

 equal length and breadth, its sides indistinctly margined and hardly at all 

 rounded, a little contracted near the base and apex, disc almost smooth, 

 with a longitudinal stria not quite reaching the apex or base, the latter 

 bisinuate. Scutellum large, smooth. Elytra double the width of thorax 

 at the base, nearly thrice its length, obliquely narrowed towards the 

 rounded apices, with short sutural spines ; they are slightly convex along 

 the middle behind ; on each elytron an irregular series of about six 

 moderate punctures extends from the base as far as the median fascia, 

 there are also numerous smaller, irregularly distributed, viridescent punc- 

 tures ; behind that fascia there are many larger, round, green spots, these 

 are closer towards the side. 



This species is chiefly remarkable for the entire absence of the normal 

 pale lateral bands of the elytra, and the unusually narrow thorax, the 

 latter characteristic is rendered more obvious by the strongly developed, 

 Scopodes-\ike eyes. 



cJ. Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



Greymouth. The only specimen I have seen is the type in the 

 Dominion Museum at Wellington, which was sent to me for identification. 



Group Cnemacanthidae. 



Mecodema Blanchard. Man. N.Z. Coleopt., p. 7. 

 4155. Mecodema femorale sp. nov. 



Elongate, moderately nitid, slightly convex ; black, palpi, antennae, 

 tibiae, and tarsi rufo-piceous ; the femora, front and middle coxae, and 

 posterior trochanters rufous. 



Head narrower than thorax, with moderately prominent eyes ; the 

 forehead evidently longitudinally sulcate, interocular rugae irregular but 

 well marked, the occiput distantly and finely punctate. Thorax only 

 slightly broader than long, widely incurved in front, its sides not crenulate, 

 nearly straight to behind the middle, gradually narrowed behind that point, 

 more distinctly at the base, with obtuse angles ; marginal channels narrow, 

 scarcely at all expanded in front, with setigerous punctures ; disc nearly 

 plane, obsoletely transversely striate, more definitely at the sides, the well- 

 marked central groove hardly attains the base or apex, across the latter 

 there are many shallow abbreviated grooves, a few of these however between 

 the middle and sides are deeper and longer ; basal fossae deep, somewhat 

 elongate, situated close to the sides, the space between them with several 

 irregular but not deep punctiform impressions. Elytra oblong-oval, more 

 than double the length of thorax, rather broader than it is at the base ; 

 their striae rather shallow and finely punctured, a little deeper near the 

 sides ; third, fifth, and seventh interstices rather broader than the others, 

 more elevated behind, but becoming indefinite towards the irregular apical 

 sculpture, there are three or four coarse punctures between the seventh 

 interstice and the smooth space near each side, the marginal punctures 

 are irregular, quite indistinct before the middle. 



Underside glossy black ; flanks of presternum and mesosternum mode- 

 rately closely and distinctly punctate, abdomen sparingly and more lightly, 

 terminal segment feebly transversely striate, quadripunctate at the extremity. 



