278 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



silvery-grey. Legs, antennae, and cibarial organs reddish ; parts 

 about the mouth with grey hairs. Head and thorax above darker 

 than the elytra, in some places inclined to blackish. Elytra strongly 

 margined ; margin yellowish brown, upper surface minutely punc- 

 tured, with three rather indistinct longitudinal ridges. Length 

 4J lines. 



Head behind the eyes not wider than the thorax. Eyes very 

 large, prominent, very slightly (if at all) notched near the insertion 

 of the antennae. Antennae eleven-jointed; first joint longest, 

 dilated at the end; second minute; third, fourth, and fifth the 

 most slender; third and fourth knobbed at the end; the fifth 

 gradually, and the terminal joints slightly, dilated. Thorax longer 

 than broad, narrowed in front and behind. Sides with a short 

 spine behind the middle. Legs long, slender. Femora clavate. 

 Elytra long, gradually growing narrower towards the end, which 

 is simple. 



I have placed this delicately pretty little longicorn beetle in 

 a new subgenus, which in the system seems to me to come near 

 the genus Promeces of Serville : it is larger than the Encyclops 

 pallipes, Newman (Entomological Magazine, v. p. 392), to which 

 North American species, discovered by Mr. Edward Doubleday, 

 it has some resemblance at first sight. I have named it in com- 

 pliment to Dr. Andrew Sinclair, surgeon, R. N., who found the 

 insect in New Zealand, and presented it, with many other New 

 Zealand Annulosa, to the British Museum. This insect (like 

 Encyclops) seems to be one of the links connecting the Ceram- 

 bicidae with the Lepturidae, a family by no means abundant out of 

 America, Europe, and Africa. 



81. Phoracantha dorsalis. (MacLeay.) Newm. Annals 



of Nat. Hist., v. p. 19. Stenochorus dorsalis. Mac- 

 Leay. Appendix to King's Survey, ii., p. 451, sp. 

 85. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



82. Coptomma variegatum. (Fabr.) Newm. Tmesis- 

 ternus variegatus. Boisd. Guer. Callidium varie- 

 gatum. Fabr. Oliv., t. 5, f. 58. Coptomma vitti- 

 colle. Newm., Ann. Nat. Hist., v. p. 18. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Fabr. British Museum. Drs. 

 Dieffenbach and Sinclair. 



83. Coptomma sulcatum. (Fabr.) Callidium sulcatum. 



