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breviore. Caput parvum, globosum, valde nutans, usque ad oculos 

 magnos, reniformes, vix convexis, in thoracem intrusum. Labrum 

 transversum, antice rotundatum. Mandibula breves, apice simplices. 

 Palpi maxillares longissimi, intus serrati, articulo primo minuto, secundo 

 magno, triangulari, tertio paululum breviore, lunato, ultimo cultriformi, 

 duobus antecedentibus longitudine sequali. Palpi labiales minuti, 

 articulo ultimo ovato, truncato. Thorax basi longitudine parum latior, 

 lateribus leviter rotundatus, antrorsum valde angustatus. Scutellum 

 minutum, apice rotundatum. Elytra thorace vix latiora, illoque arete 

 adcommodato, dein sensim apicem versus angustata, elongato-conica, 

 sutura setis verticillatis obsita. Prosternum processu triangulari, valde 

 acuto, coxas anticas prominentes, apice sub-contiguas separantes. Meso- 

 sternum angustatum, declive. Pedes tenues ; tibia apice calcaribus 

 duobus brevibus, inaequalibus, margine externo pectinatis ; tarsi an- 

 teriores articulo antepenultimo apice bilobo, antici in mare valde 

 dilatati, postici omnino simplices, articulis longitudine sensim decres- 

 centibus. Unguiculi simplices. Corpus lanceolatum, alatum. 



706. C. fasciatUHl, Redten. ; Voy. Nov., Zool. M'grum, nitidum, 

 cinereo-pubescens ; elytris postice lineis elevatis fasciaque transversa 

 ante-apicali fulva. 



Long., 4; lat, ij lin. 



NOTE. I found this species at Tairua ; the size is liable to con- 

 siderable variation. 



707. C. omatum, n.s. This species has a rather more elongate 

 and parallel outline than the preceding one, and differs from it, princi- 

 pally, in the colouration, and the sculpture of the elytral suture and 

 margins. 



The antennae, are fuscous, with a clear pale-yellow basal joint ; palpi 

 yellow ; legs testaceous ; body variegated ; the elytra are fuscous, the 

 most obvious variations being the sutural region, and, on each, a curved 

 humeral mark, an oval one near the middle, and an irregularly formed 

 one behind, which are testaceous. 



Head reddish-brown, very finely rugosely sculptured, with a few 

 yellowish hairs ; eyes distinctly but not coarsely facetted. Prothorax 

 conical, sides rounded ; base slightly bisinuated, .with the posterior 

 angles overlapping the shoulders of the elytra ; it has an elongate basal 

 depression, is very finely and rugosely sculptured, and pilose ; the dorsal 

 line and apex are reddish, and the sides, owing to the pubescence being 

 chiefly distributed near them, are yellowish, the two intervening lines 

 being of the general ground-colour. Scutellum transverse. The elytra 

 are elongate and very gradually attenuated posteriorly, with divaricate 

 somewhat acutely-rounded apices and not very close suture \ they are a 

 little depressed along the suture, bear two indistinct discoidal costse, are 

 sculptured very much in the same way as the head and thorax, and 

 with the suture and margins simple ; they are finely pilose. The two 

 hind pairs of tibia > as in the typical species, are serrate on the outer 

 edge. Under-side fuscous. 



Length, 3 lines. 



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