OF NEW ZEALAND. 461 



Hoplocneme. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. 



Antenntz moderate ; scape reaching to beyond the eye, somewhat 

 bent, very little thickened at the end ; funiculus six-jointed, first joint 

 thickest, the next five somewhat cup-shaped, the club nearly as long as 

 the funiculus, four-jointed, two first joints cup-shaped, last joint bluntish; 

 beak shortish, thick, depressed, antennal groove short, transverse-oblique, 

 beginning near the end of beak ; eyes largish and prominent ; thorax 

 somewhat strangulated in front, sides rather straight ; scutellum distinct, 

 sides parallel, end rounded ; elytra straightish at the base, elongated, 

 sides nearly parallel ; intermediate and hind pairs of legs with a strong 

 compressed tooth near the end of the femora ; tibiae slightly curved. 



817. H. cinnamonea, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. Rich 

 chestnut-brown ; head gradually wider behind ; beak ferruginous, 

 between the eyes some fulvous chestnut scales ; thorax thickly clothed 

 with fulvous chestnut scales, with a few blackish hairs intermixed; 

 scutdlum pale yellow ; elytra covered with fulvous chestnut scales, the 

 sides ferruginous, the back with many shallow longitudinal lines, with 

 impressed points ; many elongated palish hairs, running somewhat in 

 lines, and mixed with the scales on the upper part of the elytra ; legs 

 ferruginous, smooth. 



Length, 2\ lines. 



New Zealand (Mr. W. Colenso). 



8 1 8. H. hOOkeri, Wtiite; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. Bluish-black, 

 with ferruginous legs ; head behind the eyes wider than the thorax in 

 front ; beak smoothish ; head thickly punctured above ; scape of an- 

 tenna pale ferruginous ; thorax thickly punctured above, below on each 

 side with a widish line of white close-pressed hairs ; elytra without 

 scales or hairs, with many longitudinal lines with impressed dots, the 

 interstices with short transverse lines. 



Length, 2 lines. 



819. H. punctatissima, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jany., 

 1876. H. nigra, vel purpureo-nigra, vix nitida, femoribus apice, tibiis 

 tarsisque subferrugineis, supra confertim punctata ; capite inter oculos 

 haud excavato, collo valde constricto ; clava antennarum majuscula ; 

 prothorace subcylindrico, angulis anticis rotundatis ; scutello parvo ; elytris 

 sat ampliatis, haud striatis. 



Long., if lin. 



Otago. 



Smaller than H. hookeri, White, from which it may be at once known 

 by the irregularly crowded punctures on the elytra without any trace of 

 striae, instead of being in regular lines. Mr. White refers Hoplocneme 

 to the neighbourhood of Orchestes, with which it has nothing to do ; it 

 is one of the Erirhinida, and allied to the same writer's Stephanorhyn- 



