582 COLEOPTERA 



Calliprason. 



White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins. 



The characters assigned to the genus by White seem to be insuffi- 

 cient. I have examined the specimens in my collection, from which the 

 following description has been composed : 



The head, in its middle part, is nearly as wide as the base of the 

 elytra, the occiput about as wide as the thorax, the muzzle short, sub- 

 quadrate ; the eyes are large, very prominent, finely facetted, ovate, 

 slightly notched inwardly, and are placed laterally on the middle of the 

 head ; it is owing chiefly to their size and situation, that that portion of 

 the head is so wide as to equal the broadest part of the elytra. The 

 antennae are of about the same length as the body, eleven-jointed ; scape 

 elongate, rather slender, with moderately incrassated apex ; second joint 

 minute ; third to fifth of nearly equal length, each a little thickened at 

 the apex ; joints six to eleven each a little shorter than its predecessor. 

 Thorax sub-cylindrical, constricted near the base and apex, with an 

 acute, lateral tubercle behind the middle. Scutellum triangular. Elytra 

 elongate, with prominent shoulders ; they are gradually attenuated, the 

 apices being singly rounded. Legs and tarsi slender, femora very 

 slightly inflated. The apical joint of the maxillary palpus is the longest, 

 and slightly dilated towards the extremity, but not securiform. 



1018. C. Sinclair!, White; Voy. Er. Terr., Ins., p. 23 ; Steno- 

 derus sinclairi, Westwood. Above grass-green, beneath silvery-grey, 

 with silky scales or hairs ; abdomen reddish-brown where seen through 

 silvery-grey ; legs, antennae, and cibarial organs reddish ; parts about the 

 mouth with grey hairs ; head and thorax above darker than the elytra, in 

 some places inclining to blackish ; elytra margined, margin yellowish- 

 brown, upper surface minutely punctured, with three rather indistinct 

 longitudinal ridges. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



NOTE. I found this species at Tairua and Whangarei Heads. The 

 thoracic disc is uneven. 



Stenopotes. 



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



Caput elongatum, antice protensum, quadratum. Oculi reniformes, 

 obliqui, grosse granulati. Antenna corpore longiores, articulo basali 

 elongate. Prothorax capite angustior, latitudine sesquilongior, lateribus 

 inermis. Elytra elongata, subparallela, leviter costulata, epipleuris 

 distinctis. Pedes tenuati; femora fusiformia; tibia rectse. Coxa anticse 

 sub-contiguae. 



The strongly facetted eyes in this genus are an exceptional character 

 in this and in a few others of the forty-eight " groupes " into which 

 Lacordaire has divided his " Section B. " of the Cerambycida. In 

 other respects Stenopotes differs in the form of the prothorax, in the pre- 

 sence of epipleurse to the elytra, &c., from both Rhagiomorpha and 



