and Species of Heteromera. 479 



underside 



shining black, finely punctured ; flanks of protliorax longitu- 

 dinally wrinkled, the lateral margins transversely wrinkled ; 

 abdomen finely longitudinally rugose ; epipleural fold and legs 

 dark reddish brown, sometimes ferruginous ; antennae, palpi, 

 and labrum (sometimes) ferruginous. 



Length 6-6-| lines ; width of elytra across the middle 2|— 3^ 

 lines. 



Hob. New Zealand. Six examples. 



It is doubtless in eiTor that De Br^me has reported this 

 species as from " New Guinea." 



Var. granuUpennis. 



A little smaller (5^ lines) ; head and prothorax (at the 

 sides) less closely punctured, the punctuation nowhere rugosely 

 confluent ; prothorax gradually curvedly narrowed from the 

 hind to the front angles, median basal lobe less prominent, the 

 base consequently appears bisinuately emarginate ; the inter- 

 stices (between the punctures) not perceptibly granulose ; 

 scutellum a little shorter, less distinctly pointed behind; 

 elytra scarcely sinuous at the base, the punctuation less 

 varied, the punctures distinctly larger and rounder. 



Hah. New Zealand. One example. 



Cilihe Pascoei, n. sp. 



Near to C. elongata ; more broadly oval. Head closely 

 punctured, somewhat reticulately so between the eyes, the 

 interstices being also finely punctulate ; epistomial suture well 

 marked throughout : prothorax moderately convex, black, 

 subopaque ; sides subangulately rounded, more strongly (and 

 somewhat obliquely) narrowed in front than behind, distinctly 

 and very feebly sinuously narrowed from behind the middle 

 to the hind angles, Avhich are directed backwards ; base bisi- 

 nuate, closely applied to the base of the elytra ; apex deeply 

 subangularly emarginate, front angles produced, acute, di- 

 rected forwards ; disk not closely punctured, the interstices 

 Dot granulose, but sparsely finely punctulate, basal impressions 

 as in C. elongata ; lateral expanded margins wide, a little con- 

 cave, and (together with the sides of the disk) rather strongly 

 reticulately rugose-punctate, the edges unequally (not uni- 

 formly) thickened : scutellum strongly transversely triangular, 

 punctured : elytra convex, very dark pm-plish brown, the 

 suture and narrowly at the base inclined to reddish ; base sub- 

 truncate ; disk finely irregularly punctured, the costaj but 

 little evident except at the base, and, together with the suture, 

 smoother than the intervals ; indistinctly, except at the apex, 



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