OF NEW ZEALAND. 1287 



facetted ; the front coxal cavities are open behind, the mesosternum 

 being very approximate to them ; a short process, broad in front, 

 imperfectly divides them, and they project only slightly beyond it ; 

 the middle coxae are widely separated ; the femora have the basal 

 half much more slender than the outer, the division between the two 

 parts riot abrupt ; the tibia are very slender, and the basal joint of 

 the hind tarsus is elongate, longer than the two following together ; 

 the hind-body is normal, its five segments subequal in length. 



2263. C. morOSUS, n.s. (Sharp ; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886, 

 p. 442.) Niger, subolivescens, opacus, pube argentea subvariegatus, 

 pedibus fuscis, tarsis antennisque testaceis, his articulis versus 

 apices nigricantibus ; elytris haud punctatis, omnium subtilissime 

 rugulosis. 



Long., TJmin. 



Antennce with the first six joints sparingly armed with erect 

 hairs beneath, scape rather long, but little thicker at the apex than 

 at the base, each of these joints (except the basal and second) 

 swollen at the apex, and with 'the incrassate part black : thorax as 

 long as broad, each side with a large angular prominence, and the 

 disc between these with two large obsolete elevations, the surface 

 only minutely sculptured, with a small spot on the middle ; between 

 the prominences smooth : elytra slender, even, dull olivaceous-black, 

 marbled with a minute silvery pubescence, which itself is encroached 

 on by small bare spaces ; apices singly rounded : femora piceous, 

 but little paler at the base ; tibia sordid-testaceous, with a few long 

 erect hairs ; tarsi rather more dilute. 



Greymouth. Helms ; a single example, in very bad preservation. 



Group L AMIID-dE . 

 Xylotoles. 



2264. X. huttoni, M.S. (Sliarp ; Trans. Ent. Soc., Part i., 1882, 

 p. 93.) Parum elongatus, posterius attenuatus, corpore toto cum 

 antennis pedibusque dense tomentoso ; pedibus parum elongatis, 

 dense vestitis, femoribus basi superne nudo rufescente ; antennis 

 variegatis. 



Long., 7mm. 



Head very short ; antennal tubercles, placed quite on its upper 

 part, prominent ; granulation of eyes very coarse. TJwrax with a 

 transverse depression behind the front, and another at an equal dis- 

 tance before the base ; from the middle of the anterior depression 

 there extends a depression backwards, on each side of which the 

 surface is rather more elevated, and is densely tomentose with pale- 

 grey pubescence, the rest of the surface being covered with darker, 

 but mottled, pubescence ; at each side about the middle there is a 

 prominent speck of pure-white pubescence. Elytra not prolonged, 

 but broadly dehiscent at apex, densely clothed with dark tomentum, 

 which is, however, speckled and mottled, and bears some small but 



