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suture, are testaceous ; the head and legs are reddish-testaceous, and 

 the antenna? also are of nearly the latter colour, with the club obscure 

 and infuscate. 



The antenna are nearly as long as the head and thorax, their basal 

 joint stout and sub-pyriform ; second about as long as fourth ; third 

 longer than those which follow ; fifth rather larger and stouter than 

 fourth ; sixth moniliform ; seventh and eighth transversal, the latter 

 shortest, club large, oblong-oval. 



Head distinctly and closely punctured. Prothorax broader than 

 long, a little rounded laterally, and narrowed towards the front, apex 

 emarginate, base subtruncate ; the disc is not much elevated, slopes 

 gradually to the finely margined sides, is slightly depressed and of a 

 paler brown in front, is rather closely but not deeply and almost 

 rugosely punctured, and bears a few fine yellowish hairs. Scutellum 

 triangular, testaceous. Elytra obovate, slightly convex, gradually nar- 

 rowed behind, with a slight sinuation towards the apex in the female, 

 in which sex, moreover, they are a little produced, in the male rather 

 rounded and leaving a little of the ventral segment exposed ; they are 

 closely sculptured, with a somewhat shallow punctation, are slightly 

 rugulose, and sparingly clothed with fine greyish hairs. Legs stout, 

 femora dilated, tibite straight and dilated towards the extremity, the 

 anterior finely serrate externally ; the three basal joints of the tarsi are 

 dilated, the fourth minute, the last slender and as long as the others 

 conjointly. 



The prosternal process is small, and the middle coxae, like the 

 anterior, are but slightly separated. The labrum is not at all deeply 

 notched. 



Length, iJ-2 lines. 



I found this species near Whangarei Heads, on the Nikau (Areca). 

 It may prove to be a new genus. 



Nitidula. 



Fabricius ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. ii.,/. 303. 



Mentum bisinuated in front. Ligula surrounded by a membraneous 

 border, wide, and widely emarginated in front. Last joint of the labial 

 palpi sub-cylindrical, and a little attenuated at the end. Labrum slightly 

 hollowed in front. Antennal furrows well-marked, straight and conver- 

 gent. Club of the antennae rounded, compressed, composed of compact 

 joints. The three first joints of the tarsi of normal length, dilated, 

 pilose underneath. 



305. N. lateralis, White; Voy. Ereb. Terr., Ins., p. 8. Of a 

 pitchy-brown, closely punctured ; sides of thorax widely, and sides of 

 elytra narrowly, margined with yellowish; base of elytra near the scutellum 

 yellowish. 



New Zealand (Kaudi, Wood ?) 



NOTE. Mr. White probably meant Kauri ; the same mistake occurs 

 elsewhere. No size is given. 



