1304 COLEOPTEEA 



Antenna robust, third and fourth articulations each shorter than 

 fifth. Head punctate. Thorax strongly transverse, a little curved 

 but not very much narrowed anteriorly, side margins rather broad, 

 angles rectangular, base sinuous ; bearing fewer punctures on the 

 sides and before the scutellum than elsewhere. Elytra more or less 

 furrowed apically, their punctation not truly serial, shoulders 

 smooth and prominent. Legs stout. 



When compared with the preceding species it will be noticed 

 that the pronoturn is less depressed and contracted in front, that it 

 is shorter, and that the lateral margins are more explanate. 



Var. A. Testaceous ; front of head and all but the middle of 

 thorax piceous ; a broad triangular space of a pitchy hue occupies all 

 the scutellar region and most part of the sides of the wing-cases ; 

 joints 3-6 of antennae elongate and slender. 



Var. B. Antennae and legs testaceous ; the yellowish spaces on 

 the body increased, the greenish diminished, both, however, main- 

 taining the same shapes. 



Length, 2 ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Tairua, Waitakerei Kange, and other localities. 



2292. E. montana, n.s. Oviform, rather elongate, convex ; 

 shining ; the head, all save the margins of the thorax, and two 

 broad longitudinal vittae not attaining the apices of the elytra, 

 fuscous ; the elytral suture also similarly dark in colour ; the re- 

 mainder of the body testaceous. 



Protliorax moderately short, its angles about rectangular, sides 

 finely margined and somewhat rounded ; its whole punctation rather 

 fine and dense. Elytra grooved behind, the striae prolonged forwards 

 towards the middle as series of punctures, but nearer the base, 

 owing to the interposition of other punctures, the punctation be- 

 comes irregular ; humeral angles smooth. 



Its nearest ally is, undoubtedly, E. puncticollis, from which it 

 may be readily distinguished by an examination of the thoracic 

 sculpture. In E. montana the punctures are a little larger and the 

 intervals between them are broader, whilst the hind-body is nar- 

 rower throughout ; in E. puncticollis the punctures are very close to 

 one another, and the interstices are excessively narrow and often 

 appear as if rugose. 



Var. A. Thorax and tibiae piceous ; tarsi and basal half of 

 antennae infuscate, the apical half of these latter rufescent. 



Var. B. Nearly wholly testaceous, the elytral vittae represented 

 by two elongate brown spots. 



Var. c. Body greenish-black; the legs, antennae, the suture, 

 sides, and apices of wing-cases, testaceous. 



Var. D. Body piceous ; legs and antennae testaceous. 



Length, If lines ; breadth, nearly 1 line. 



Found on Mount Egmont, at various elevations from 800ft. to 

 3,000ft. 



