OF NEW ZEALAND. 833 



Length, i-J lines ; breadth, . 



I took two specimens on the Waitakerei Eange. 



Group SCAPHIDID-ffi . 



Baeocera (p. 665). 



1481. B. rufipes, n.s. Oviform, convex, nude, glossy, ru- 

 fescent, generally infuscate-red, sometimes pitchy; legs red, tarsi 

 yellow ; joints 1-6 of the antennae testaceous, the others infuscate^ 



Antenna elongate, first and second joints stout and about equal, 

 3-6 slender, fifth longer than sixth, seventh broader than eighth 

 and equalling it in length. Maxillary palpi yellow, their terminal 

 articulation elongate, conical, gradually acuminated. Head smooth. 

 Prothorax without sculpture, its median lobe concealing, or almost 

 covering, the scutellum. Elytra impunctate, of the same width as 

 the thorax at the base but a little dilated laterally before the middle, 

 the suture somewhat elevated posteriorly, the striae quite obsolete 

 near the base ; the hind edges and pygidium rufo-testaceous. 

 Last joint of the posterior tarsi longest, the basal not elongated. 

 Underside smooth, pitchy-red, sparingly clothed with fine hairs. 



In Eedtenbacher's Scaphisoma scutellare, which is, I think, a 

 Bceocera, the thoracic lobe does not wholly cover the scutellum ; the 

 present species is closely allied thereto, but the coloration and form 

 are different, the contour being interrupted by the dilatation of the 

 elytra. In B. rufum I fail to detect the scutellum ; this remark also 

 applies to Scaphisoma apicella and S. actuosa : the two latter might, 

 perhaps, be more correctly located under Bceocera. 



Length, i line ; breadth, quite \. 



Collected by Messrs. Chalmer and Fulton, Otago. 



Group COL YDIID^E. 



Bitoma (p. 192). 



1482. B. lobata, n.s. Elongate-oblong, slightly convex, 

 opaque, somewhat variegate, chiefly pitchy-brown; the sides of the 

 thorax, the base and a broad longitudinal space on each elytron, 

 obscure infuscate-red ; legs and antennae obscure rufo-testaceous, 

 tarsi fulvescent. 



Head moderate, narrowed behind, granulate. Antenna with the 

 two basal joints stout, third elongate, joints 3-9 slender, tenth 

 strongly transverse, eleventh large, as broad as tenth. Prothorax as 

 long as broad, uneven, its sculpture nearly similar to that of the 

 head; the sides tri-lobed, the anterior largest, the basal minute; 

 base rounded. Elytra oblong, with several rows of shallow punc- 

 tures, interstices narrow and somewhat elevated ; on the second 

 punctate space appear a slight, elongate, basal elevation and four 

 small nodules, and there are two or three others (nodules) on the 

 top of the hind slope ; they bear some short, dark-coloured and 

 greyish setae, not, however, very easily seen. 



Somewhat similar to B. rugosa, but with the sides of the thorax 

 lobed. 



