OF NEW ZEALAND. 573 



Thorax longer than broad, constricted anteriorly, less so behind ; it 

 is dilated laterally in the middle in the form of a strong, acute tubercle; 

 disc uneven. The elytra are four times the length of the thorax, their 

 sides nearly parallel with the suture and somewhat compressed, but a 

 little incurved near the middle and gradually dilated posteriorly ; apices 

 obtusely rounded. The legs are rather long ; the femora somewhat 

 laterally compressed, strongly dilated towards the middle, and curvedly 

 excised towards the apex, so as to be dentate ; the tibia are arcuated, 

 slightly flexuose, and terminate in two short spines ; the tarsus is long, 

 slender, and pilose ; the basal joint is as long as the second and third 

 conjointly, the third bilobed ; claws divaricate. 



The characters of this new form indicate an affinity to Leptachrous, 

 but it differs essentially from that genus in the structure of the palpi, 

 legs and eyes ; the scutellum also, though similar in form, is, in the only 

 example now before me, abruptly deflexed anteriorly. 



1002. V. munda, n.s. Body shining; the head, thorax, scape ot 

 antennae, and femora, pale rufo-castaneous, the other parts of the body 

 fulvo-castaneous. The head has a dark dorsal line, and is remotely and 

 indistinctly punctate ; mandibles stout, with fuscous tips. The thorax is 

 finely margined along the base and apex, finely and distantly punctured; 

 the disc is uneven, with two sub-contiguous, obtuse, transverse eleva- 

 tions in front of the lateral tubercles. The elytra are broader than the 

 thorax, sub-depressed, with prominent humeral angles ; their sculpture 

 consists of shallow, not very obvious, punctures, and each bears three, 

 almost imperceptibly elevated, pale fulvous, discoidal lines, and many 

 abbreviated transverse lines of a similar colour ; they are sparsely clothed 

 with short, silky, fulvous hairs. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



I found two examples of this species at Tairua. 



Pseudocalliprason. 



Nov* gen. 



Palpi moderate, terminal joint longest, slightly dilated (but not secu- 

 riform), apex truncate. Head subovate, considerably elongated and 

 rather abruptly contracted behind (just in front of the base), where it is 

 again widened ; muzzle subquadrate ; vertex concave. Eyes reniform, 

 coarsely facetted, placed laterally, rather in front of the middle part of 

 the head. Antenna inserted close to the emargination of each eye, 

 pubescent, of about the same length as the body ; eleven-jointed, sub- 

 filiform ; scape elongate, its apex clavate ; second joint minute ; joints 

 three to six almost equal ; seven to eleven decrease in size. Thorax 

 elongate-conical, slightly constricted near the apex, with' an acute lateral 

 tubercle behind the middle, and two erect acute discoidal tubercles, 

 rather smaller, and placed further forward, than the others. Elytra 

 elongate, tapering gradually to the apices, but almost dilated just before 

 reaching the tip ; apices obtusely rounded singly ; the shoulders are 

 broad, almost rectangular, the sides are abruptly compressed ; disc flat. 

 The legs are slender, elongate, sublinear ; tarsi elongate, the basal joint 



