1264 COLEOPTEKA 



of triangular shape. Elytra with very slight obtuse basal elevations, 

 very feebly impressed behind these ; the punctures form striae, and 

 there is a short scutellar row on each elytron, so that the next two 

 are oblique near the base : this, however, is the usual sculpture. 

 Eyes rather larger and more oblique, certainly more approximate in 

 front. Abdomen with three basal segments impressed along the 

 middle. 



$ . Length, 2f lines ; breadth, f line. 



Found near Howick. One male. 



2228. A. decens, n.a. Variegate, infuscate-red ; legs fusco- 

 testaceous, scarcely at all maculate ; antennae almost concolorous, 

 obscure-red ; clothing dense, grey, fulvescent, and fuscous, the alter- 

 nate elytral interstices spotted with grey and fuscous. 



Antenna elongate, rather more than twice the length of the body, 

 ninth joint not three times as long as the tenth and eleventh taken 

 together, the two basal joints more obviously pubescent than the 

 others. 



A. phymatodes is congeneric. This species is larger and more 

 brightly coloured ; the antenna are longer and thicker, their third 

 joint more strongly bent ; head similarly bituberculate ; eyes of 

 similar form ; thorax rather longer, the carina a little less sinuate 

 towards the sides ; elytra oblong, rather more finely punctate- 

 striate, basal callosities well developed, those on the third inter- 

 stices, behind the middle, very much smaller than they are in 

 A. phymatodes and not placed so far back, the summit of posterior 

 declivity more elevated. 



<. Length, 2f lines ; breadth, line. 



Howick. One example. 



OBS. I found an insect on the Waitakerei Eange which I con- 

 sider a varietal form of No. 1317, having the elytra more distinctly 

 spotted, the spots almost regular and suboblong, alternately blackish 

 and greyish, and, where the carina terminates, there is a distinct 

 notch in the side of the thorax. 



2229. A. finitiniUS, n.s. Piceous, legs and antennas obscure- 

 reddish, tibiae with a distinct dark spot at the extremity, two basal 

 joints of tarsi pitchy at apex ; clothing dense, soberly coloured, 

 white, yellowish, and cinereous, with pale and dark spots on the 

 wing-cases, their sides and posterior part darker than the. disc. 



This is another near ally of A. phymatodes; it is, however, nearly 

 twice its bulk. The antennae are more than two times the length of 

 the body. Rostrum medially incurved in front, relatively shorter ; 

 mandibles longer; head more coarsely sculptured, with more pro- 

 minent tubercles ; eyes similar, but rather more emarginate. Thorax 

 but little broader than long ; its carina rather thicker at the sides 

 than in A. phymatodes, so that where it ends the sides appear to be 

 suddenly narrowed anteriorly, but the notch visible in A. picipictus 

 at that point is here absent. Elytra almost twice as long as broad, 



