ANNULOSE ANIMALS. 2?7 



paler; the elytra margined, and of a lighter colour, with three 

 longitudinal veins springing from the base, and connected together 

 by yellowish nervures, forming irregular reticulations, not corre- 

 sponding on each elytron ; the elytra have a short spine at the 

 end close to the suture. The head, thorax, and general surface of 

 the elytra are irregularly punctured and vermiculated. 



The thorax is short, transverse, not nearly so wide as the 

 elytra, and covered with many short woolly-like hairs, which 

 give it a brownish hue, and seems to have a longer tuft on each 

 side behind ; the sides have a strongish spine about the middle, 

 which spine is angulated at the base. 



The femora have two spines at the end, and the tibiae have 

 three spines, two shorter on the inside at the end, and a longer 

 one on the outside. 



The face between the antennae is hollowed out; the shortish 

 strong angulated mandibles are punctured on the outside; the 

 trophi are prominent, and somewhat clubbed at the end. The 

 eyes are large, and are separated both above and beneath by a 

 rather narrow division. The antennae are somewhat more than 

 three-quarters the length of the insect ; the first joint is strong, 

 short, and thickest at the end; the second is very small, and 

 sumewhat cup-shaped ; the next eight have a spine at the end of 

 each, the third being the longest joint of the antennae, and the 

 others gradually shorter; the terminal joint is bluntish at the 

 end ; the last joints are somewhat flattened. The sides of the 

 scutellum are nearly parallel, the end abruptly rounded, and down 

 the middle there is a smoothish ridge. The elytra are longish, 

 rounded at the end, and narrowest there ; the margin is slightly 

 turned up. Length 1 inch 6 lines; greatest breadth of elytra 

 about 6J lines. 



This Prionus forms a section or subgenus distinct from Sceleo- 

 cantha and Toxcutes of Newman (Annals and Magazine of Nat. 

 Hist., v. pp. 14, 15), the latter founded on the Australian Prionus 

 arcuatus, Fab. ; it differs essentially from Malloderes Dupont 

 (Guerin, Mag. de Zool., 1835, pi. 125) and Aulacopus, Serville 

 (Anuales de la Soc. Entom., 1832, pp. 144, 145), of the characters 

 of the species of which it partly partakes. 



80. Callichroma (Calliprasoit) Sinclairi. White, n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Above of a grass green, beneath silvery-grey, with silky scales 

 or hairs; the abdomen is reddish- brown where seen through the 



