OF NEW ZEALAND. 3 



The species may be at once identified by its rather anteriorly nar- 

 rowed elytra, and obscure colour. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



Captain F. W. Hutton, in whose honour the species is named, found 

 two specimens at Martin Bay, on the west coast of Otago ; and I 

 found a third on the bank of a creek some ten miles inland from 

 Tairua, on the east coast of Auckland. 



3. C. latecincta, White, Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. i. Elytra 

 bordered all round with a widish yellow band, which extends close 

 to the edge; the inner edge has four slight sinuosities and three 

 lobes, the middle one largest, forming a shortish band, not quite reach- 

 ing to the suture. Head, thorax, and rest of elytra of a dark, bronzy- 

 brown. Elytra much elongated. 



Length, 7 lines. 



Waikouaiti, Mr. Earl. 



NOTE. Mr. H. W. Bates (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 1874) adds, 

 "This form is generally considered a variety of C. tuberculata." The 

 differences, however, are considerable ; for besides the width of the 

 lateral white stripe, which reaches throughout the lateral rim of the 

 elytra, it is a broader insect, with the elytral surface more uniform in 

 colour, and particularly the rows of punctures much less marked and 

 with smaller green spots. 



4. C. wakefieldl, Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March, 1874. 

 C. tuberculata similis, at multo minor et angustior ; fascia alba mediana 

 elytrorum postice oblique prolongata. 



Long., 4 lin. M.F. 



Very similar to C. tuberctilata in sculpture, colours, and markings, 

 but certainly distinct. It is always much smaller and narrower ; and 

 although the lateral white stripe of the elytra is very similar in form and 

 direction, the median fascia is prolonged as a curved streak some 

 distance down the disk of the elytron. There is also a structural 

 difference in the apex of the elytra, which may better be expressed by a 

 tabular formula : 



Cicindela tuberculata, Elytrorum Cicindela wakefieldi, Elytrorum 

 apicibus. M. conjunctim pro- apicibus. M. conjunction, late 

 longatis, sutura longe spinosa. F. rotundatis, sutura breviter spinosa. 

 conjunctim rotundatis, sutura acute F. singulatim abrupte rotundatis (vel 

 spinosa. ad suturam fortiter conjunctim em- 



arginatis,) sutura breviter spinosa. 



Very local, near Christchurch. Sent in some numbers by Mr. 

 C. M. Wakefield, but first discovered by Mr. Fereday, of Christchurch. 



5. C. douei, Chenu; White, Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. i. Elon- 

 gated, bronzed above ; labium and mandibles on the sides yellow ; 

 thorax quadrate, somewhat flattened, deeply impressed with two trans- 

 verse bluish furrows ; elytra with anterior margin, lunu'les on shoulder 

 and sub-apical point, yellow. Body beneath greenish-blue, with white 

 hairs. 



