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tertio paulo breviore, cseteris (ultimo excepto breviusculo) parum longi- 

 oribus, subsequalibus, unilateraliter dilatatis ; ( ^ ) corpore breviores, 

 n-articulatse. Pro thorax transversus, depressus, muticus. Elytra pro- 

 thorace latiora, elongata, subparallela. Pedes tenuati, elongati ; femora 

 linearia ; tibia posticse flexuosae exceptse, rectae, apice bispinosae ; coxa 

 anticse transversse. Prosternum elevatum, postice rotundatum. Abdo- 

 men molle Isevigatum. 



The only exponent of this genus retains the name of Aphanasium 

 australe, Boisd., in the British Museum, and as such was referred by 

 Mr. White to the Prionida. It is probable that Lacordaire, had he 

 known it, would have placed it in his Monodesmides. I do so now with 

 some hesitation in consequence of the absence of the lateral ridges 

 separating the pronotum from the sides of the prothorax, and the pre- 

 sence of the inner maxillary lobe. 



992. O. Imttoni, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,Jany., 1876. A. 

 fulvescens, elytris nitide testaceis ; capite prothoraceque sat sparsim, pec- 

 tore dense, villosis ; prothorace angulo antico rotundato, lateribus sub- 

 parallelis ; elytris sat confertim punctatis, apicibus ad suturam spinosis ; 

 pedibus tenuiter pilosis ; tarsis intermediis et posticis articulo primo 

 quam secundo longiore; segmento ultimo abdominis in fcemina solum 

 detecto. 



Long. (<?), 12 lin., ( ? ), 15 lin. 



Waikato ; Wellington. (Captain Hutton.) 



NOTE. I found two specimens at Tairua. 



Group CERAMBYCID^E. 



Ligula membraneous, not often corneous. Maxilla bilobed. Last 

 joint of the palpi never aciculate. Labrum not soldered to the epistome, 

 never relatively vertical. Pronotum very rarely provided with lateral 

 ridges. Anterior tibia without oblique inward furrow. The mesosternum 

 almost invariably furnished with apparatus for stridulation. 



Liogramma. 



Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1874. 



Ad gen. Phacodes et Elaphidion affine, sed antennis articulo tertio 

 apice intus acute producto, articulis reliquis simplicibus. Corpus lineare, 

 paulo convexum, nitidum sed passim pubescens. Caput retractum ; 

 ortt/fprominuli, grossissime granulati; frons brevis ; /a^/* breves, articulis 

 terminalibus triangularibus. Antenna M. corpore paulo longiores, 

 pilosae, haud sulcatse, scapo curvato-clavato, articulo tertio apice intus 

 acute dentato, quarto quam tertio paulo breviore, quinto usque undeci- 

 mum sequalibus, precedente longioribus, gradatim attenuatis. Thorax 

 oblongus. postice vix angustatus, lateribus paulo rotundatis inermibus, 

 supra rugosis, lineis elevatis politis. Elytra thorace vix latiora apice 

 late rotundata. Pedes modice elongati, femora gradatim clavata ; tibia 

 haud sulcatae ; tarsi breves, articulo primo modice elongate. Acetabula 



