202 Capt. T. Broun on new 



SteiJiaspt's in being flatter and less curved and acuminate 

 externally towards the front. The metnsternuni is depressed 

 and grooved along the middle. The abdomen is shorter. 

 The tarsi and claws are similar. 



Poecilodiscus pulcher, sp. n. 

 Suhovate, moderately convex, nearly glabrous, shining, 

 variegate. 



Bead green, with coarse shallow punctures in front, behind 

 with quite fine and distant ones ; forehead marked off by a 

 sinuous suture, the frontal and lateral margins reddish and 

 somewhat reflexed ; clypeus widely emarginate. Thorax 

 metallic green on the middle, more or less infuscate behind ; 

 each side has a broad pale testaceous space, and an irregu- 

 larly formed pallid mark extends from the front towards the 

 centre of the disk ; it is about a third broader than long ; the 

 sides are rather finely margined, they are almost gradually 

 narrowed from the base forwards, rather more narrowed but 

 not abruptly before the middle ; the base is strongly bisinuate 

 and appears rounded in the middle, the apex is widely emar- 

 ginate ; the posterior angles are nearly rectangular, but obtuse, 

 and are quite as wide as the shoulders, the anterior are more 

 acute ; its surface is moderately punctured, with a shallow 

 interrupted median groove, and near each side there is an ill- 

 defined impression. Scutellum green, with red margins ; it 

 is large and bears a few punctures. Elytra suboblong, 

 slightly narrowed towards the shoulders, distinctly margined, 

 apices quite rounded ; they are punctate-striate ; the inter- 

 stices are convex, the second is straiglit and becomes flat 

 towards the extremity, the fourth and sixth unite behind ; 

 these, like the margins, are more or less greenish yellow, the 

 rest of their surface is infuscate green. Legs elongate, femora 

 fuscous, tibia? viridescent. 



Underside fuscous, clothed with greyish hairs similar to 

 those along the side of the upper surface ; coxje pallid. 



This beautifully variegated insect recalls to mind some 

 tropical Cetoniidse. The antenna} are broken off from the 

 fourth joint ; the first is stout and elongate, with white setas ; 

 the next two are hardly longer than broad ; tlie fourth rather 

 longer. 



Length 6^, breadth 2f lines. 



Gow's Creek, Switzers, Central Otago, altitude about 

 4000 feet. One individual, found by Mr. John Frances, 

 December 1892, was forwarded to me for examination by 

 Professor Hutton. The type was presented by its discoverer 

 to the Canterbury Museum. 



