OF NEW ZEALAND. 221 



Cryptamorpha. 



Wollaston; Ins. Mad., p. 156. 



NOTE. I could not obtain the description of this genus, but I have 

 re-described White's species in a manner that will, I hope, enable them 

 to be identified without reference to the late Mr. T. V. Wollaston's 

 work. 



387. 0. brevicomes, Wliite; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 18. Sub- 

 depressed, reddish-castaneous, moderately shining ; antennae red, legs 

 infuscate, tarsi testaceous. 



Antenna longer than head and thorax, pubescent ; basal joint mode- 

 rately stout, and about twice the length of the second, which is short ; 

 joints three to six nearly equal ; seven to ten obconical, the tenth short; 

 eleventh subovate. Head irregularly punctured, almost rugose, with an 

 impressed line near each side extending backwards from the clypeus j it 

 is rather dull, with a few yellowish hairs. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 widest in front, sides rounded ; the anterior angles are obtuse, almost 

 carinate, and finely denticulate ; the sides are finely margined, and the 

 margins are prolonged across the disc, in the form of a slight curved 

 carina in front of the true base, which is also margined, but truncate ; 

 there is a broad, shallow, dorsal depression, deepest behind, which is in- 

 distinctly divided by a slightly elevated almost smooth central space ; 

 the surface is punctured, the punctation rather remote but shallow near 

 the middle, and finer but closer, almost rugose, elsewhere \ it is sparingly 

 pubescent. The elytra are elongate, sub-depressed, their humeral angles 

 obtuse, sides nearly parallel, apices obtusely rounded ; each bears nine 

 shallow grooves, or striae, six of which are discoidal, besides a short 

 scutellar stria, all of which are closely punctured ; the interstices seem 

 to be rugose, or finely punctulate, but the sculpture is rendered indistinct 

 by their rather dense covering of pallid hairs, and becomes obsolete 

 posteriorly. The tibia are straight. 



Length, 2% lines. 



OBS. I have substituted the above description for the original one, 

 which seems to have led to confusion ; the Dendrophagus umbrinus 

 (Smith, Cat. Brit. Mus.,p. 12) is, I think, but another name for this 

 species. Pascoe (vide Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Jan., 1876, /. 49^ regards 

 the type specimens of Dendrophagus umbrinus, Smith, and the D. 

 suturalis, White, as varieties of White's Dendrophagus brevicomes ; they 

 must, I suspect, be in bad condition, as the Cryptamorpha (Dendro- 

 phagus, Wh >y ) suturalis cannot well be confounded with the present 

 species, as will be seen on comparing the descriptions. 



388. C. CUPVipes, n.s. Body of a moderately shining pitchy- 

 chestnut colour, femora piceous, tibiae infuscate, tarsi pale-red, antennae 

 obscure pitchy-red. Head distantly punctured, the punctures almost 

 disposed in rows and the intervals quite smooth, with an impress- 

 ed line near each side ; it is quite nude, except at the labrum, and 



