OF NEW ZEALAND. 501 



tuberculato, basi nigro-binotato ; scutello parvo ; elytris convexis, sparse 

 fasciculato-tuberculatis, substriatopunctatis, apice rotundatis, basi utrin- 

 que juxta scutellum macula atra notatis ; pedibus squamosis. 



Long., 3 lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



892. C. variegatUS, n.s. Rostrum pieeous, rather stout, indis- 

 tinctly grooved and carinated, finely squamose. Antenna ferruginous 

 and finely pubescent ; the second joint of the funiculus long ; the first 

 and third about equal ; club elongate-oval and rather pointed. Thorax 

 narrower than the elytra, the hinder half transverse, the anterior con- 

 tracted abruptly and produced; the disc is rugose and clothed with 

 pieeous scales and setae, the sides and prosternum with whitish scales, 

 there being an elongate patch of the latter near the scutellum, and 

 beyond that one, on each side, a less conspicuous fuscous patch 

 there are four discoidal tubercles, the larger ones near the middle, the 

 others, less remote from each other, behind. The elytra are sub- 

 cordiform, with almost parallel but tubercular sides ; the shoulders are 

 narrow, and immediately behind each, at the side, there is a squamose 

 tubercle ; there are six distinct discoidal tubercles on each disposed in 

 two rows, rather distant from the suture; the colour is black; to beyond 

 the middle they are variegated with a few griseous scales and erect rufous 

 setae, the latter being distributed on the posterior tubercles ; the hinder 

 portion is paler, less of the ground-colour being visible, and more varie- 

 gated, the clothing consisting chiefly of griseous and white scales, with 

 a few erect rufous and black setae intermingled. The legs are squamose, 

 the clothing of the anterior pair being griseous, that of the others black, 

 variegated, and almost annulated, with white. Tarsi ferruginous, rather 

 slender. 



Length, 3 lines. 



I found two or three specimens at Tairua, but I have described the 

 species from my only remaining example ; it may be at once dis- 

 tinguished from C. binotata, apart from its colour, by its more elongate 

 antennal club, larger prothorax, distinctly transversely-quadrate behind, 

 and more slender tarsi. 



893. C. SCUtellaris, n.s. Similar in form to C. vanegata, but 

 with a rather smaller (relatively) prothorax. Rostrum moderate, punc- 

 tulate, the basal half covered with ferruginous scales, the apical shining. 

 Prothorax black, bi-crested at apex, with four setose tubercles on the 

 middle, the outer quite lateral and two near the base ; its punctation 

 concealed by the dull ferruginous squamosity. Elytra convex, much 

 broader than the thorax, uneven, attenuated posteriorly ; their dorsal 

 space nearly plane ; each elytron with three more or less distinct rows 

 of setose tubercular elevations, the outer lateral, causing the uneven 

 appearance of the sides ; they bear rows of punctures ; their basal 

 portion is nearly free from scales, those on the rest of their surface are 

 small, testaceous or ferruginous in colour, but leaving an obvious oblong 

 space in line with the posterior femora quite nude and of the prevailing 



