OF NEW ZEALAND. 



803 



Nos. 909 Pentarthruni assimilatum 

 904 longirostre 



Nos 



1431 

 910 

 924 

 926 



crenatum 

 planiusculum 

 lateritia 

 sharpianum 



912 Khinanisus fulvicornis 



913 parvicornis 

 923 contiguus 



917 Dioedimorphia wollastonianum 



918 debile 



928 Agrilochilus prolixus 

 236 Diacanthorhinus bellus 



929 Sericotrogus subsenescens 

 932 stramineus 



914 Macrosoytalus remotus 



915 . seneopiceus 



920 badius 

 1433 depressus 



921 Proconus asperirostris 



940 Heteropsis lawsoni 

 927 Entium aberrans 



935 Mesoxenophasis brouni 

 937 Microtribus huttoni 

 988 Novitas rufus 

 939 nigrans 



946 Pogonorhinus opacus 

 1436 Euodontus punctithorax 



947 Arecophaga varia 



941 Phlceophagosoma corvinum 

 943 thoracicum 



1310 



1305 Bseorhopalus glabrus 



1308 Macroscytalus laticollis 



1309 russulus 



1311 

 944 

 945 

 942 



948 Eutornus dubius 



949 vicinus 



950 breviceps 



951 amplus 



952 littoralis 



953 Xenocnema spinipes 



rugipenne 



abdominale 



dilutum 



pedatum 



constricticolle 



The old No. 925, proving on re-examination to be identical with 

 Entium aberrans, has been expunged from the list, and a new species 

 (Pentarthrum ferrugineum) substituted. The generic name Lasio- 

 rhinus has been replaced by a more appropriate one (Pogonorhinus). 

 Nos. 912, 913, and 923 have had a new name (Rhinanisus) coined for 

 them. Nos. 917 and 918 have been treated in a similar way. A new 

 species (Agastegnus ruficollis) has been made the type of another new 

 genus, and with it are associated Nos. 930, 922, and 933. No. 1305 

 has been deemed the representative of another distinct form (B<zo- 

 rhopalus). Pentarthrum asperirostre (No. 921) has become Proconus 

 asperirostris. Euodontus punctithorax is a new genus and species. 



I have adopted Pentarthrum apicale as the typical form of the 

 genus. The five following agree with it in having the margins of the 

 elytra explanated apically ; their relationship therefore can be easily 

 perceived. The name Pentarthrum should, in niy opinion, be re- 

 stricted to the species from No. 904 to No. 906 ; the succeeding four 

 are certainly of abnormal form, and had the author (the late T. V. 

 Wollaston) of the original diagnosis of this genus considered, as I do, 

 the P. sharpianum the exponent of a new genus, I would have placed 

 Nos. 910 and 924 along with it, and then made a new generic name 

 for P. crenatum. Had it been expedient to pursue the course indi- 

 cated, I would have located all the species from No. 910 to 936 after 

 Belinophorus nigrans, so that Sericotrogus subcenescens should suc- 

 ceed P. crenatum. 



The student having these remarks and the descriptions before him 

 will, I hope, find the nomenclature of a cossonideous collection much 

 simplified. 



