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sinuate on each side. Scutellum and elytra closely punctate, dull. 

 Hind-body broad, closely punctate, black, with some iridescent re- 

 flections. Male with a broad shallow emargination on the last ven- 

 tral ring, and the front tarsi rather strongly dilated. Female with 

 the tarsi rather less dilated. 



This is another species, very distinct from its New Zealan4-coji- 

 geners, and suggesting by its form, size, and colours an affinity 

 with the European genus Velleius. I sent it some years ago, under 

 the above name, to M. Fauvel, and he intended to describe under 

 the name of Q. flavilabris. As this is not a very good name, the 

 labrum not being yellow, I have preserved the name I first sug- 

 gested. 



Dunedin : G. M. Thomson. Greymouth : Helms. 



1841". Q. edwardsi, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 378.) Elongatus, angustus, piceus, nitidus ; elytris prothoracis 

 longitudine, fortiter punctatis ; abdomine elongate, fortiter punctate. 



Long., 13mm. 



Antenna slender, obscure-red, tenth joint much longer than 

 broad. Head short, clypeus distinctly marked off by a suture, but 

 quite horny, the surface sparingly and finely punctate, eyes occupy- 

 ing rather more than half the length of the side, genae not margined. 

 Thorax transverse, a little rounded at the sides in front ; the surface 

 sparingly punctate, and with a large puncture on each side of the 

 middle distant from the front margin, in addition to the marginal 

 punctures. Scutellum large, coarsely punctate, like the elytra. 

 Hind-body coarsely punctate, rather shining, with iridescent reflec- 

 tions ; terminal styles very long. Male with a small excision on the 

 hind margin of the last ventral plate. 



This is a very different species from any others known from New 

 Zealand. I received an example of it from Mr. Henry Edwards 

 about twenty years ago, and have named it after him. It has now 

 been found by Helms at Picton. 



1842. Q. insolitus, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Eoy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 379.) Elongatus, angustulus, niger ; antennis, palpis, tarsisque 

 piceis ; prothorace antrorsum fortiter angustato, angulis anterioribus 

 valde depressis, disco utrinque punctis quatuor impressis ; elytris 

 elongatis, dense subtiliter punctatis. 



Long., 13mm. 



Antenna long and slender, basal joint rather darker than the 

 rest. Head oblong, eyes rather small, not occupying one-half the 

 length ; clypeus extremely short, horny, vertex over a large extent 

 closely punctate, anterior portion of the surface quite smooth ; genal 

 sutures quite obliterated. Thorax quite as long as broad, of the 

 usual form at the base, but much narrowed towards the front, and 

 at the front margin with the angles so greatly deflexed that the 

 sides appear sinuate ; the surface is shining-black, with some seri- 

 ceous reflections, and is remarkable by the four punctures placed 



