OF NEW ZEALAND. 8 1 



In this species the legs are shorter than in R. modestus, and the 

 elytra are^less attenuated behind. 



New Zealand. (Under stones). 



NOTE. The above is all the information given by White, so that the 

 name might with advantage be dropped into oblivion, as no one could 

 identify the insect without reference to the type in the British Museum. 



149. R. incertus, n.s. Oblong-oval, only moderately convex, 

 shining, blackish-green, the side margins brownish, legs reddish, 

 with paler tarsi, palpi and antennae fuscous, club dull, with excessively 

 fine pubescence. Palpi stout, rather short ; the sixth antennal joint 

 short and broad. Head a good deal rounded ^anteriorly ; epistome 

 feebly emarginated, its margins elevated, leaving a depression at each 

 side in front \ its surface is finely and remotely punctured, and there 

 are two punctiform impressions near the middle in front of the eyes. 

 Prothorax transverse, moderately convex, with finely margined expla- 

 nated sides, it is narrowed in front, with rounded angles, and it is 

 emarginated at the apex ; its surface is moderately punctured, the dis- 

 coidal punctation much less apparent than the lateral, there are two 

 punctiform impressions in front of the middle, and two more obvious 

 and distant ones near the base. Scutellum punctated. Elytra oblong, 

 transversely convex, obtusely rounded behind and distinctly margined ; 

 each elytron bears ten rather strongly punctured striae, of which the five 

 inner approach the base; the interstices are very finely punctated. 

 Legs scarcely shorter than those of R. modestus. 



Length, 3 lines ; breadth, i \. 



Described from one example found near Whangarei Heads. It is a 

 much broader and less convex insect than the typical one, and, appa- 

 rently, closely allied to R. pedinoides, from which it differs (supposing 

 White's description accurate) in its longer legs and coarser sculpture, 

 the punctation of the elytral striae being coarser than that seen in R. 

 modestus. 



150. R. Oblong"US, n.s. This species is of a decidedly more 

 oblong form than the preceding, with much larger elytra, which are 

 widest behind the middle and obtusely rounded behind; it is trans- 

 versely convex, with a comparatively small ovate head ; it is of a reddish- 

 brown colour, with the epistome and margins reddish, the legs are red, 

 the tarsi, palpi, and antennae are yellowish, and the club of the latter dull. 

 Head a little uneven but without well-defined depressions, closely 

 punctured, the margins plane, epistome feebly emarginated. Prothorax 

 relatively very short, about one-third of the length of the elytra, 

 bisinuated at the base and apex, much more strongly in front than 

 behind, moderately convex, rounded towards the front, and finely mar- 

 gined ; the slope towards the sides is gradual, so that there are no 

 marginal hollows ; its surface is rather densely and finely punctured, the 

 punctation least distinct on the middle, and with two distant fovese 

 near the base. Elytra long, slightly incurved laterally near the middle, 

 broader than the thorax, and finely striated, the striae with rather small 



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