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85. H. (Platysma) Vigil, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 3. 

 Very deep black ; hairs on antennae, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous ; head 

 and thorax very delicately and irregularly striated; head with an H-shaped 

 impressed mark in front ; thorax with an impressed, transverse, some- 

 what bent line in front ; a straight one down the middle, deepest behind, 

 but not reaching the posterior margin ; two deep impressions near the 

 posterior angle of thorax ; elytra short, with seven longitudinal striae, 

 the spaces between slightly raised ; the lateral margin depressed with a 

 catenulate row of points. 



Length, roj lines. 



Port Nicholson (Capt. Parry). 



86. H. (Platysma) pOlitiSSima, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., 

 p. 4. Very deep black ; head with an H-shaped impression in front ; 

 thorax with two deep, somewhat curved fossae behind, one on each side ; 

 elytra with very deep longitudinal punctured strise, the fifth and sixth 

 united at the end ; side with a row of catenulate punctures. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Port Nicholson (Mr. Earl). 



NOTE. It will be found nearly impossible to identify the last two 

 species, Feronia vigil and politissima, without reference to the types in 

 the National collection at London. 



87. H. (RhytisternilS) rugifrons, n.s. A deep black moderately 

 shining insect, allied to but a little larger and broader than the Austral- 

 ian R. duella, with the head very coarsely rugose, particularly behind the 

 eyes, the thorax also is wrinkled transversely, but not so much so as the 

 head, and the interstices of the elytra are feebly impressed so as to 

 appear somewhat rugulose ; the legs are piceous, and the tarsi, antennae, 

 and parts of the mouth are red. The body is oblong, sub-depressed, the 

 elytra wider than thorax ; the latter is about as broad as long, sub-cor- 

 date, widest in front of the middle, rounded laterally, and a good deal 

 narrowed towards the rectangular, but not prominent, hind angles ; the 

 base and apex are subtruncate, the basal fovese are rather elongate, the 

 dorsal line feebly impressed, and there is an elongate impression close to 

 each hind angle. The elytra are oblong-oval, a good deal sinuated and 

 narrowed behind, widest behind the middle, with a somewhat flattened 

 disc ; the impunctate striae are distinct and regular, the sixth and seventh 

 are rather feeble but deep behind, and the latter is prolonged at the apex 

 so as to reach the second ; the interstices are scarcely convex, and there 

 is an interrupted row of punctures along the side. Legs moderate ; the 

 first joint of the anterior tarsi is oblong, shorter than fifth, the next three 

 are but little dilated, decrease in size, and are sub-triangular in form. 



Length, 4^ ; breadth, if lines. 



Described from one example found at Auckland. 



This is a synonym of Pterostichus, I believe. 



88. H. (HaptoderilS) maorinus, Bates; Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., March- April, 1874. H. oblongus. nigro-piceus, M. nitidus, F. elytris 



