580 COLEOPTERA 



as the abdomen and not gaping at the suture. Legs long and very 

 slender, femora sub-clavate. 



A small genus having some resemblance to M. Shuckard's genus 

 Stepanops, but abundantly distinct in the less projecting head, ovate 

 eyes, and other characters. 



1014. P. tenuipes, Saunders ; Trans. Ent. Soc., 2nd Ser., i, 80, 

 pt. 4, Jig. i, 1850. Pale chestnut-brown, with the eyes, first joint of 

 antennae, tips of the other joints of the antennae, and legs, black. Elytra 

 striate. 



Length, & inch. 



New Zealand. In the collection of Mr. J. F. Parry. 



Xuthodes. 



Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 1875. 



Caput breve, inter oculos sulcatum. Oculi magni supra distantes. 

 Antenna corpore longiores, tenuiter ciliatse, articulo basali obconico, 

 tertio fere sequali, quarto paulo breviore, quinto ad undecimum longio- 

 ribus. Prothorax antice late truncatus, utrinque bituberculatus, tuber- 

 culo anteriore apicali, altero mediano, disco inaequali. Elytra oblonga, 

 parallela. Pedes mediocres ; femora fusiformia. Prosternum angustum, 

 arcuatum. 



In habit and colour the only representative of this genus is like the 

 Chilian Phymatioderus bizonatus ; but its characters ally it with Gram- 

 micosum and Hesperophanes, from both of which it differs in the pro- 

 thorax and antennae. 



X. punctipenniS, Pascoe ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 

 1875. X. capite prothoraceque fulvis, opacis ; elytris nitide flavescen- 

 tibus, nigro-punctatis, punctis apicem versus minutis, pone medium 

 fascia angusta fusca ornatis ; antennis, pedibus abdomineque luteis ; 

 prothorace impunctato, disco 5-tuberculato. 



Long., 7^ lin. 



Pitt's Island (Mr. Travers). 



1015. X. apicalis, Sharp; Ent. Mon. Mag., Jan., 1877. Capite 

 prothoraceque fulvis, opacis ; elytris nitidis, flavescentibus, nigro-punc- 

 tatis, pone medium fascia angusta, punctis pone fasciam haud nigris, ad 

 apicem densioribus ; thorace impunctato, obsolete tuberculato. 



Long., 14 mm. 



This species greatly resembles the figure given by Mr. Pascoe of 

 Xuthodes punctipennis, and has a similar peculiar sculpture of the elytra; 

 but in X. apicalis the punctures behind the fascia are not black, and 

 though those immediately behind the fascia are smaller and distant, 

 those near the apex are coarse and closely placed. The head in X. 

 apicalis is only indistinctly channelled between the eyes. 



Sent from Tairua by Capt. Broun, with the information that he had 

 only been able to find two individuals of the species. 



