OF NEW ZEALAND. 255 



trigono. Labrum sub-porrectum, in medio tuberculo conico instructum. 

 Mentum transversum, angulis anticis lateralibus rotundatis margine 

 anticis haud emarginato. Labii lacinise elongatse, setosse. Caput trans- 

 versum, antice late concavum, lateribus haud complanato dilatatis ; 

 oculi rotundati, vix cantho antice et postice incisi. Prothorax margine 

 antico in medio elevato et sub-porrecto, disco in medio canaliculate vel 

 sub-depresso. Tibiae anticse extus 6-dentatse. Prosternum simplex, haud 

 retro porrectum. 



450. L. reticulatUS (Buquet, MS.), Westwood ; Trans. Entom. 

 Soc., iv., 275, 1847. L. mandibulis brevibus crassis, intus obtusi den- 

 tatis, sub-depressus, niger, pronoto sub-quadrato, elytrisque squamoso- 

 reticulatis. 



Long, corp., lin. 6. 



Habitat in Nova Zealandia. In Mus. D. Buquet, Parisiis. 



Caput parvum, nigrum, nitidum, margine antico depresso. Mandi- 

 bula breves, obtusse, dentibusque duobus obtusis armatis. Antenna 

 articulo 7 mo vix intus producto setoso. Oculi cantho sub-divisi. Mentum 

 transversum, angulis anticis rotundatis, margine antico in medio parum 

 emarginato. Pronotum sub-quadratum, capite multo latius, lateribus 

 parum rotundatis, disco spatiis nonnullis luteo squamosis. Elytra 

 pronoti latitudine obscure luteo-squamosa, spatiis vel interstitiis glabris 

 reticulata. Pedes breves, nigri. Tibia anticse extus 5-6 dentatae, 4 

 posticse in medio dente unico armatse. 



FAMILY LAMELLICORNES. 



Antenna short, with seven or eleven joints ; the basal joint large, 

 the terminal joints mobile, and forming a transversal club. Legs more 

 or less fossorial, especially the anterior ; their tarsi pentamerous. 



Group COPRID^E. 



Organs of the mouth overlapped by the clypeus, invisible from above. 

 Ligula membraneous. Lobes of the maxilla very large, coriaceous or 

 membraneous, and ciliated. Mandibles lam elli form, membraneous, more 

 or less corneous laterally. Labrum of the same form, membraneous, 

 invisible, adhering to the arch of the cavity of the mouth. Antenna 

 inserted below the clypeus, with eight or nine joints the basal very 

 large, the three last forming the club. Six ventral segments to the 

 abdomen, all connate. Metathoracic parapleura simple. Intermediate 

 COXCE longitudinal or oblique, nearly always widely separated. A single 

 spur to the posterior tibia . 



Saphobius. 



Sharp; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. Paris, 1873,^. 4. 



Corpus sub-quadratum. Clypeus antice angustatus breviter biden- 

 tatus. Palpi labiales biarticulati ? (articulum tertium videre nequeo), 



