gi8 COLEOPTERA 



1643. T. amplicollis, n>s. Oblong, moderately convex, 

 nigro-viridis, head black, legs and antennae rufo-piceous, tarsi and 

 palpi pitchy-red. 



Head rather large but not broad, rugose in front, with some 

 feeble linear marks on the occiput ; eyes convex, their orbits much 

 narrowed behind. Prothorax quadrate, yet a little transverse, 

 widely incurved at apex, base not deeply emarginated, its sides very 

 little rounded, gradually narrowed till near the base, where there is 

 a short sinuation, posterior angles projecting but not acute ; disc 

 moderately convex, its groove distinct, basal fossae large but not 

 very broad, without any very evident intervening depression, very 

 slightly impressed in front, where it has many fine irregular longi- 

 tudinal marks more obvious than the transverse ones on the dorsum. 

 Scutellum striate at base. Elytra oblong, moderately rounded 

 laterally, rather deeply sinuated apically, shoulders dentiform ; 

 punctate-striate, punctation fine ; interstices slightly convex, the 

 third with four, the seventh with six large punctures. Underside 

 pitchy-black. Legs stout. 



The shape of the thorax approximates to T. chloris, T. patruelis, 

 and T. planiusculus only, but it is more convex, and the posterior 

 angles are dissimilar. The elytra are blackish-green, and the 

 depressed parts of the thorax are more cupreous. 



$ . Length, 9 lines ; breadth, 3^. 



Taieri : Mr. S. W. Fulton. 



Group BEMBIDinXflS. 



Anillus. 



1644. A. pallidus, n.s. Sub-depressed, shining, pale-tes- 

 taceous, bearing many minute setae and short, erect greyish hairs. 



Head moderately large but not broad, widely but not deeply bi- 

 sulcate ; mandibles stout, acute at extremity ; no eyes visible. 

 Antenna quite the length of head and thorax, stout, the two basal 

 articulations longest, joints 3-10 nearly equal, moniliform, eleventh 

 ovate, not so long as the preceding two ; terminal joint of palpi 

 minute, the penultimate as large as the second antennal joint. 

 Prothorax cordiform, finely marginated, apex truncate, base arcuate- 

 emarginate, widest before the middle, gradually narrowed posteriorly, 

 hind angles obtuse, with a fine median stria and small oblique basal 

 foveae. Elytra sub-oblong, broader than thorax, finely marginated, 

 shoulders rounded, apices sub-truncate, their sides a little curved, 

 suture well marked; discoidal portions rather plane, their sides 

 abruptly declivous, so as to appear somewhat carinate, with a 

 fuscous streak near each side. Legs stout, yet elongate ; anterior 

 tibiae much bent outwardly near the extremity, with a corresponding 

 inner incurvature armed at its upper part with a robust calcar-like 

 process ; four basal joints of tarsus about equal, about as long as 

 broad, fifth longest. 



Length, f line ; breadth, . 



One of Mr. S. W. Fulton's discoveries on the Taieri seabeach. 

 The characters of the genus are given by Lacordaire, Hist, des Ins. 

 Coleop., Tom. i., p. 380. 



