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oval; the head is finely but distinctly punctured; the thorax is trans- 

 verse, nearly straight at the sides behind and rounded in front, the base 

 is obliquely truncated towards each side, the apex emarginated, and its 

 surface is sparingly punctulated and clothed with pallid hairs. The 

 elytra are obovate, convex, moderately finely and closely punctured, 

 with fine greyish hairs proceeding from the punctures. 



The insect is of a moderately shining, greenish-black colour, with the 

 apex and side margins of the thorax castaneous, and the legs and anten- 

 nae reddish-testaceous. 



Length, \\ ; breadth, i line. 



My specimen, in bad condition, was sent me by Professor Hutton, 

 who found it at Lindis Pass, Otago. I have a second individual, received 

 some two or three years ago from Mr. C. M. Wakefield, which I refer to 

 this species, though the punctation is rather coarser than in the one from 

 Otago. 



Cranophorus. 



Mulsant ; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. xii.,/. 218. 



Head small, quite invisible from above; labrum feebly rounded in 

 front ; last joint of the maxillary /d^to* a little longer than broad, obliquely 

 truncated at the extremity. Eyes not very obvious, and only seen 

 underneath. Antenna rather long, terminated *by a slender elongate- 

 oval club, formed of three or four joints, cylindrical, not compressed. 

 Pronotum not quite so wide as the elytra, of a rather regular semicircular 

 form, the anterior and lateral margins with an even curvature ; base 

 slightly arcuated, posterior angles straight, anterior obsolete ; somewhat 

 convex behind. Scutellum triangular. Elytra oval, a little convex, 

 widest at the middle, finely margined ; epipleurcc moderate, plain, with 

 a slight depression opposite the posterior femora, and effaced a little 

 beyond. Prosternum a little elevated on the middle line, sub-depressed 

 and furrowed at each side ; the mesostennim very short, sub-sinuous in 

 front. Abdomen with five segments. Legs slender, tibire almost arched 

 externally ; tarsi with single claws. 



1141. C. venustus, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept., 

 1875. C. elliptico-ovatiis, modice convexus, villosus, niger, supra sat 

 confertim punctulatus ; prothorace utrinque late flavo-marginato ; elytris 

 singulis margine externo maculisque duabus magnis flavis. 



Long., 2\ lin. 



Waikato (Captain Hutton). 



Cranophorus, Muls., is easily recognised by the prolongation of the 

 anterior part of the prothorax completely covering the head (not emar- 

 ginate as in the generality of the Cocdnellidce]. Two species only from 

 the Cape were known hitherto. I have but a single specimen of the 

 species before me ; but a minute examination might show structural 

 peculiarities requiring its generic separation from the Cape species, 

 which have certainly a somewhat different aspect. Only four members 



