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90. A. piceilS, Blanch.; Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool., iv.,/. 28., 1853. 

 Pitchy-black, shining ; head bifoveolate in front ; antennae and palpi 

 ferruginous ; prothorax grooved on the middle and base ; elytra ovate, 

 striate ; tarsi reddish-brown. 



Proportionally narrower than the preceding, of a rather shining 

 brownish-black. Head smooth, shining, with two large excavations in 

 front ; antenna ferruginous, shining, with their last joints slightly hairy. 

 Prothorax a little convex, slightly narrowed behind, but little longer than 

 broad, smooth above, only having a median groove, and on each side at 

 the base a short groove that is deeper than that on the middle. Elytra 

 oval, evidently convex, with the numeral angles projecting, and with 

 well-marked striation near the suture, but nearly effaced near the lateral 

 margins ', these striae present some traces of punctures ; the interstices 

 smooth and but little convex. Tarsi wholly ferruginous-brown. 



Length, 6 mil. 



Akaroa, New Zealand. 



Molopsida. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 6. 



Head large ; last joint of palpi sharp-pointed ; antenna with the 

 joints somewhat moniliform and bristly ; thorax without margin, much 

 wider behind than in front, sides considerably rounded, behind quite 

 straight, the posterior angles nearly rectangular ; elytra ovate, truncated 

 in front, considerably convex. 



91. M. polita, White. Deep, shining black; elytra with longitu- 

 dinal rows of shallow striae rather closely punctured, the margin with 

 two deep grooves connected in many places by short, transverse grooves ; 

 antennae and palpi ferruginous ; legs deep rufous. 



Waikouaiti (Mr. Earl). 



NOTE. I think this species might be erased from the list with 

 advantage, in fact all whose measurements are not given should be 

 dealt with in that way. 



Alogus. 



Motsch.; Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc., 38, ii.,245, 1865. 



A Feronian without minute striae on the base of the elytra, but with 

 a cordate prothorax marked on each side of the base with a deep 

 groove, and with a little one towards the posterior angle. Prosternum 

 without a distinct margin. Indentation of the mentum furnished with a 

 broad tooth a little projecting, rounded off and margined. Third joint 

 of the antennce as long as the first, glabrous, the four following pubes- 

 cent and equal. Last joint of the palpi almost cylindrical and broadly 

 truncate. The seventh, eighth and ninth striae of the elytra crenulated 

 at the bottom, the eighth in addition marked with some large punctures, 

 the extremity a little sinuated. 



General form of Omaseus, but broader. The episterna, behind, a 

 little longer than broad. 



