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no other course but to do as Mr. Wollastoti has suggested, viz., to 

 regard it as representing a distinct family of Coleoptera. 



Several specimens sent from Tairua by Captain Broun. One of 

 them was sent amongst a lot of Coleoptera found on Cyathea dealbata, 

 one of the tree-ferns. 



748. A. badius, n.s. The facies of this species is very similar to 

 what I consider to be the male form of A. wollastoni, but it is, however, 

 quite distinct from it as well as from the other form. The difference in 

 colouration first strikes the eye ; the colour of the preceding species is 

 obscure, and may be termed fuscous, that of A. badius is indicated by 

 its name, a bright reddish-yellow chestnut, the elytra being a little paler 

 than the rest of the body. Its clothing is much more scanty, and con- 

 sists of reddish-yellow short erect setae, which are not disposed in rows 

 on the elytra as in the other species. The body is smaller, and, owing 

 chiefly to the differently shaped head and rather narrower elytra, is of a 

 less interrupted outline. 



The form of the head is just intermediate between the two forms 

 indicated above, being rather longer and of a less quadrate shape than 

 the male of A. wollastoni, and less elongate than the other ; its ante- 

 rior portion is almost shining, with two depressions, which are separated 

 by a slightly elevated interval, and the hind part bears some minute 

 tubercles. The prothorax is quadrate, nearly as wide as the head and 

 elytra, a little uneven, and coarsely but indefinitely sculptured. The 

 elytra are coarsely punctured, but not in well defined rows, the inter- 

 stices, both longitudinally and transversely, are about equal, and quite 

 nude. 



In A. wollastoni^ the ninth antennal joint, though much smaller than 

 the tenth, is appreciably larger than its predecessors ; in the present 

 species the eighth and ninth joints are equal, so that the club is well 

 limited. 



Length, ii line. 



I found one specimen at Parua (Whangarei Harbour). 



Nicseana. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Feby., 1877. 



Rostrum breve, crassiusculum, capiti continuatum ; scrobes fovei- 

 formes, apice rostri supra sitse. Oculi rotundati. Antennce validse ; 

 scapus ad oculum postice attingens ; funiculus articulis crassiusculis ; 

 clava distincta. Prothorax transversus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Elytra 

 obovata, humeris obsoletis. Pedes mediocres, intermedii paulo brevi- 

 ores ; tibia anticae sub-fl exuosse ; ungues liberi. 



With some hesitation I have come to the conclusion that the nearest 

 ally of this genus is Prosayleus, from which, however, it differs, inter 

 alia, in its foveiform scrobes, placed on the dorsal surface near the apex 

 of the rostrum. At first sight the species here described reminds one of 

 our Metallites marginatus. 



