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base. The head is somewhat protuberant in front of each eye, has a 

 large coarsely punctate triangular depression in front, the posterior 

 margins of which are elevated and almost smooth ; the hind part and 

 sides are coarsely punctured, more sparingly behind than on the sides ; 

 it bears some elongate pallid scales, which are congregated on the 

 depressed portions. The thorax is convex, rather transverse, the apex 

 and base are sinuate at each side ; it is widest at the middle, the sides 

 behind are nearly straight, in front rounded ; posterior angles obtuse- 

 rectangular ; the margins are rather thick and somewhat crenated ; the 

 dorsum is remotely, the depressed portions rather closely, punctured, 

 and it has an ovate central depression in front, two shallow oblique 

 basal ones, and some others which are less obvious ; the squamosity is 

 chiefly confined to the depressed portions. Scutellum punctate and 

 squamose. The elytra are convex, oblong, a little wider than the 

 thorax, with compressed sides and slightly crenated margins ; their 

 surface is irregularly and distantly punctured ; each elytron bears three 

 indistinct somewhat abbreviated costse, the external defines the disc, 

 the other two are equidistant from one another and the suture ; their 

 clothing consists of patches of scales not very regularly disposed, the 

 most conspicuous being a basal one, three in an oblique line in front of, 

 and the same number behind, the middle of each elytron, but the 

 squamosity does not accurately correspond on both elytra ; in fresh 

 examples the clothing, most likely, will be more ample, though distribu- 

 ted more closely on the depressed parts. Under-side punctured and 

 sparsely squamose. The prosternum is slightly carinated, and the 

 interval between the intermediate coxae, though almost plane, is sub- 

 carinated towards the prosternum. 



The colour is an obscure infuscate red, with a bluish tinge on some 

 parts, and the scales are pale fulvous. 



Length, 6 lines. 



The only specimen I have seen is minus legs and antennae ; it was 

 found by Mr. T. F. Cheeseman in January, 1878, in the mountainous 

 region near Nelson. 



449. 0. lielotoides, Thorns. ; Ann. Soc. Entom. France, Ser. 4, ii. 

 $ Elongatus, convexus ; niger vix nitidus, pilis squamuliformibus 

 pallidis hue et passim ornatus ; punctatus, elytra obsolete longitudi- 

 naliter pluri-costata, costis numero indistinctis. ^ ignotus. ^ Elon- 

 gatus, convexus. Caput inaequali punctatum, sub-triangulariter depres- 

 sum. Prothorax elongatus, sub-quadratus, antice paulo angustiore, 

 paulo ut apud Helotam ; elevationibus intricatis plurimis impunctatis, 

 instructus; punctatus. Scutellum granulosum. Elytra prothorace 

 latiora, illo quasi 3-longiora, punctata, obsolete longitudinaliterque 

 costata, costis numero indistinctis ; apice rotundata. Corpus subtus 

 pedesque valde punctata. ignotus. 



*~t> **' "*' ^" Lissotes. 



Westwood; Trans. Entom. Soc., n. ser., iii., 213, 1855. 



Sub-genus novum. Eigulo Nigidisque affine, mandone maris uncinato, 

 oculis vero integris rotundatis vel subintegris scutelloque minuto sub- 



