OF NEW ZEALAND. 1303 



Group EUMOLPID/E. 



Eucolaspis. 



Nov. gen. 

 (Sharp; Trans. Eoy. Dub. Soc., Nov., 1886.) 



Coxae omnes parum distantes ; corpus absque pubescentia ; coxae 

 anteriores ad marginem anteriorem posterni sitae. 



The form is rather short, convex. The head is deflexed, the eyes 

 moderately convex. The pronotum is margined at the base, sides, 

 and front, but has no denticles or sinuation on the lateral margin. 

 The front coxce are situated as near as possible to the front margin 

 of the prosternum, which is not at all deflexed ; they are moderately 

 separated, the prosternum arched upwards behind them. The 

 middle coxae also are moderately separated ; the metasternum is 

 short ; the hind coxae are not more widely separated than the others. 

 The femora are rather slender, unarmed; the tibia are simple, 

 straight externally, not mucronate at the apex ; the third joint of 

 the tarsus is bilobed, but it is short, and fitted rather closely to the 

 preceding joint ; the claws are appendiculate. 



Peniticus is clearly an allied form, and as a genus is distinguished 

 by the short convex form, the greater separation of the coxae, the 

 excessively short metasternum, and the position of the front coxae, 

 which is not quite so close to the front margin. 



2290. E. OChracea, n.s. Shining, ochraceous, occasionally 

 with some ill-defined fuscous spots. 



Head punctate. Pronotum bisinuate at base, sides finely mar- 

 ginated and slightly curvate ; nearly smooth at the sides, the punc- 

 tures more sparingly distributed near the middle of the base than 

 on the disc. Elytra more or less striate posteriorly, the punctation 

 on the dorsum seldom disposed in regular series, coarser and more 

 rugose behind the smooth, somewhat elevated, humeral angles ; 

 intrahumeral depressions well marked. 



The basal margin of the thorax and the elytral suture are usually 

 reddish. 



In form very much like E. atrocerulea, but with finer punctures 

 on the pronotum, and having the hind-body more narrowed towards 

 the apex. 



Length, 2 ; breadth, I| lines. 



North Island ; different localities. 



2291. E. COlorata, n.s. Variegate; the back of the head, the 

 thorax, except two broad oblique vittae of a piceous hue, testaceous ; 

 elytra with two broad stripes proceeding from the shoulders and 

 terminating near the apex close to the suture testaceous, the rest of 

 their surface of a bluish or piceous colour ; legs and antennae dark, 

 the apex of the femora and anteimal joints yellowish, 



