OF NEW ZEALAND. 1225 



This is nearly allied to T. amplipennis, but differs therefrom in 

 the paler squamosity, which, in that species, approaches pale-brown 

 in colour ; on the sides of the elytra the squarnge are as dense as they 

 are elsewhere, so that the dark lateral areas are absent. The hind- 

 body is somewhat longer and not quite as broad, it is broadly im- 

 pressed near the base, without distinct elevations or crests, the 

 second and third interstices, at the middle, are slightly convex, so 

 that the striae seem to be deeper there, the fifth is only slightly 

 raised behind. Pygidium exposed. 



Underside with greyish hair-like scales. Metasternum convex 

 and glabrous in the middle. 



Length, 1^ lines (rost. excl.) ; breadth, -| line. 



Mokohinou Island. A single specimen, with one leg off, is all I 

 have seen. It was found by Mr. Sandager. 



Eugnomus. 



2158. E. arglltUS, n.s. (Sharp ; Ent. Hon. Mag., vol. xx., 

 p. 67.) Angustulus, rufescens, subtus squamulis albidis (ad hu- 

 meros densioribus et subochraceis) vestitus ; superne pile depressa 

 vestitus, scutello suturaque ad basin albido-squamosis, elytris ad 

 basin circa scutellum fasciaque mediali sat arguta nigro-sanguineis. 



Long., 4-4^mm. 



This species has the surface more densely clothed, and with a 

 rather more definite limitation of the marks than is usual in the 

 allies. The antenna are pale-red, and the rostrum is red, the head 

 behind the eyes more obscure ; both are densely punctate, as is also 

 the thorax, and all these parts are clothed with depressed, fine, 

 hair-like scales of a pale-flavescent colour, a white line of rather 

 coarser scales running along the middle of the thorax ; this white 

 line is continued along the scutellum and on the basal portion of 

 the suture ; and around the pale line thus formed at the base of the 

 elytra there is a patch of colour of a much darker red than the 

 general ground-colour, and on the middle there is an irregular sub- 

 angulate fascia of similar dark vinous-red colour ; the rest of the 

 elytra has a pale clothing, which is most dense and definite behind 

 the medial fascia ; the surface bears a few fine, upright, pale hairs. 



Mr. Helms has sent five specimens of this species from Grey- 

 mouth ; and I have a pair in bad condition of a closely- allied but 

 distinct species, found by Mr. Wakefield at Christchurch. 



2159. E. nobilis, n.s. Elongate, almost nitid ; body blue, 

 femora red, tibise and antennae blackish ; elytra evenly covered with 

 golden-yellow, depressed hairs, those on head and thorax more 

 scanty, and a few short, slender, upstanding, fuscous ones, which, 

 however, are not easily seen. 



Rostrum longer than thorax, somewhat dilated apically, so that 

 the beginning of the scrobes can be easily seen from above ; behind 

 the antennal insertion closely, coarsely, and rugosely punctured, in 

 front more finely and somewhat lineated, with an almost smooth 



