OF NEW ZEALAND. 1059 



from E. sandageri, numerous minor differences are exhibited. The 

 seventh joint of the antemup is notably larger than the contiguous 

 ones ; the insect is more shining ; the sculpture of the head and 

 thorax is shallower and less apparent ; and the legs are not so stout. 

 The underside is shining, less coarsely punctate, and the basal seg-^ 

 ments of the abdomen are simple, transversely convex, and with 

 well-developed sutures, the fifth is strongly rounded, the sixth is 

 visible beyond it and of nearly the same form. 



Length, f ; breadth, ^ line. 



Clevedon. Mr. G. Munro. 



1893. E. sandageri, n.s. Subopaque, clothed with yellow 

 hairs, those behind most elongate, legs chestnut-red, tarsi fulvous. 



Head subtrigonal, narrower than thorax, coarsely punctured, the 

 sides on the same level as the tubercles ; these latter separated by a 

 broad, deep channel extending backwards to the small fovea on the 

 vertex. Eyes small, coarsely granulated, situated at the middle of 

 the sides ; the sides of the head, in front of them, narrowed and deeply 

 excavate. Antenna shorter than head and thorax, their basal two 

 joints large ; 3-8 very small, alike ; ninth and tenth transverse, in- 

 creasing in bulk; eleventh large, acuminate. Thorax rather broader 

 than long, widest near the middle, much narrowed in front and 

 behind ; its sculpture finer than that of the head, with three foveae 

 near the base, dorsal sulcus broad and deep. Elytra subquadrate, 

 shoulders narrow ; their sculpture apparently rugulose, sutural and 

 intrahumeral impressions broad, deep near the base. Hind-body 

 longer than elytra, impunctate. Legs stout ; tibiae grooved on the 

 outside near the extremity, the anterior with three or four minute 

 denticles, and, like the hind pair, externally arched. 



Underside pubescent, punctate; the head with erect hairs, whose 

 extremity is club-like. Prosternum bi-impressed in front of the coxae ; 

 these prominent, the dividing channel deep but narrow. Metaster- 

 num convex. Abdomen convex, its segments well developed ; the 

 basal somewhat thickened or raised near the cox 33, second with a 

 minute mesial tubercle, fifth large, rounded; sixth narrower than 

 the preceding one. 



In E. auripilus the frontal depression is quite shallow, and there 

 is no distinct fovea on the middle of the back part of the head, as it 

 seems to form part of the furrow itself ; the thorax is smaller and 

 less cordiform, &c. 



$ . Length, f- ; breadth, J line. 



Mokohinou Island. Two examples from Mr. Sandager, after 

 whom I have much pleasure in naming it. 



1894. E. perspnatus, n.s. Convex; head, thorax, and all 

 but the terminal joint of the antennas red, abdomen darker, elytra 

 and legs chestnut-red, tarsi and palpi yellow. 



This species differs from No. 1647 (E. patruelis) as follows: 

 Slightly shorter and broader. The back part of the head just 

 behind the foveae more angulated and elevated, leaving a short 



