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Last joint of the maxillary /a^to* securiform, but not greatly dilated. 

 The species is four lines long by two and a third broad. 



648. 0. IsetllS, n.s. This species is very similar to the preceding, 

 but is much smaller, more shining, and differently sculptured. The 

 colour is pale-testaceous, the elytra are variegated with dark fuscous 

 irregular spots, and there are two suffused pale-brown spots on the 

 thorax. The head has a transverse impression behind, is rather remo- 

 tely and not at all rugosely punctured, with the epistome somewhat 

 reflexed in front. The thorax is rather finely and distantly punctured. 

 Scutellum large, and, except along the base, quite smooth. The elytra 

 are irregularly punctured and seldom rugose, and are ciliated with long 

 slender hairs. The legs resemble those of the other species, being 

 pilose, coarsely sculptured and inflated. 



Length, z\ \ breadth, i J lines. 

 I found this species at Tairua. 



649. C. Concolor, Sharp ; Entom. Mon. Mag., August, 1878, 

 p. 8 1. Rotundato-ovalis, convexus, fere unicolor, pallide testaceus, 

 subnitidus ; pedibus posterioribus minus incrassatis. 



Long., 6J mm. ; lat., 4 mm. 



Though excessively similar to C. trachyscelides, White, I think this is 

 a distinct species ; in C. trachyscelides, unicolorous unspotted forms are 

 rare, whereas in C. concolor I have not seen a spotted individual, though 

 I have received two or three dozen specimens ; C. concolor is only about 

 half the size of White's species, and has the legs much thinner, and 

 there seems to be scarcely any difference in the intermediate tarsi of the 

 two sexes, whereas in C. trachyscelides, $ , the middle tarsi are much 

 dilated. 



Sent by Professor Hutton, in numbers, from Otago. 



Phycosecis. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., September, 1875. 



Caput transversum, deflectum. Antenna longiusculae, i i-articulatse, 

 articulo basali ampliato, secundo subelongato, tertio breviore, duobus 

 ultimis conjunctim globosis, intermediis transversis. Oculi prominuli, 

 liberi. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo ovato. Prothorax antice pro- 

 ductus, lateribus ciliatus, basi rotundatus. Elytra modice convexa, 

 subrotundata. Tibia anticse subtrigonatae, apice inermes, omnes extus 

 denticulato-ciliatse ; torr/lineares, antici liberi, articulo ultimo majusculo. 



In the rounded base of the prothorax, in contact only with the elytra 

 in its middle portion, this genus agrees with Hyocis ; but the globose 

 two-jointed club of the antennae, the last joint being very small, differen- 

 tiates it from all the other genera of its sub-family. The genus contains 

 four species, two only inhabiting New Zealand ; the other two are from 

 Australia. One of the species, and probably all, like many others of the 

 Phaleriince, is found on the sea-shore under Algae. 



