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commonly met with now, owing probably to so much bush-land 

 having been brought under cultivation. I do not remember having 

 seen it far from the coast." 



Leemosthenes complanatus, Dejean 



Mr Hudson recorded this South European species in March, 1888, 

 as occurring under packing-cases. This insect was identified by Com- 

 mander J. J. Walker as Pristonychus terricola, Herbst. 



POLYMORPHA 



Family HYDROPHILID;E 

 Hydrobius assimilis, Hope 



Taken by Mr Hudson in a brackish pool at Ocean Beach, Happy 

 Valley, Wellington, in November, 1886. Mr Smith states that it is 

 not uncommon near the sea at New Plymouth and elsewhere, in 1919. 



Paracymus nitidiusculus, Broun 



Mr Hudson says: "Not known to me; but it seems hardly likely 

 that Broun would describe an introduced species, unless he made a 

 synonym ! " It is given in the Index Fauna Novce-Zealandice as an 

 Australian beetle. 



Cyclonotum marginale, Sharp 



This Australian beetle is common in New Plymouth according 

 to Mr W. W. Smith (1919). It was recorded in the Index in 1903. 



Cercyonflavipes, Fabr. 



Mr Philpott reports (1917): "I knew this species at least twenty 

 years ago, finding it both near the coast and fifty or sixty miles inland 

 (in Southland). It is not abundant." As far back as 1872, Mr C. M. 

 Wakefield sent specimens of this beetle to Britain from Canterbury, 

 and stated that it was abundant. 



Family STAPHYLINIDJE 

 Homalota sordida, Marsham 

 Taken by Mr W. W. Smith at Ashburton, about 1884. 



Oxytelus rugosus, Fabr. 



This Australian species is recorded in the Index in 1903. Taken 

 at New Plymouth by Mr W. W. Smith. 



Quedius fulgidus, Fabr. 



Introduced from Europe, and recorded in the Index in 1903. 

 Mr W. W. Smith informed me in 1919 that it is common about New 

 Plymouth. 



