OP NEW ZEALAND. 1357 



Onysius (Gen., p. 843). 



2378. O. pulcher, n.s. Oblong, subdepressed, shining; head 

 and thorax with slender, depressed, grey hairs, elytra nearly nude, 

 legs and antennae with greyish pubescence ; colour variegate. 



Head closely, almost rugosely sculptured, fusco-niger. Antenna 

 nearly double the length of the head and thorax ; joints 2-8 very 

 pallid, but with the apex of each infuscate ; the last three rather 

 broader than the others and almost wholly infuscate ; the basal 

 joint black, thicker but scarcely longer than the second. Thorax 

 but little broader than long, posterior angles oblique, the anterior 

 rounded, the sides a little narrowed backwards and more finely 

 marginated than the base, which has a slight but wide notch in the 

 middle ; the disc is dark-brown, and this part is closely but not 

 coarsely punctured ; near the front angles, and also near the sides, 

 there are irregularly-formed pale marks, these are not closely 

 punctured, some being smooth, the surface is a little uneven. 

 Scutellum closely punctate. Elytra oblong, nearly twice the width 

 of the thorax, obliquely narrowed behind ; they are somewhat uneven 

 above, with a nodosity on each near the extremity ; colour pale, 

 almost emerald-green, but with two blackish arrow-shaped marks 

 on the middle, there is a large basal triangular fuscous space ; there 

 are also six or seven small spots on each elytron, an oblique 

 transverse black mark in front of the posterior nodosity, and an 

 angular patch outside it, the middle of the side too is blackish ; 

 there are six undulations at each side behind, five smaller ones near 

 the shoulder, and five or six minute yellowish ones between the 

 larger series ; the punctuation is not close except near the base, it is 

 not at all coarse, and some of the nigrescent spots are nearly smooth 

 and shining. Legs elongate, the femora and the middle of the tibiae 

 fuscous ; the rest of the tibiae, and the tarsi, except the end of each 

 joint, quite pallid. Underside fuscous. 



This is very much like the typical species, No. 1499, in form, the 

 eyes however are not quite so deeply emarginate; the elytral 

 margins are more evidently undulate, the almost curvate raised 

 space near the hind thigh is absent, and the marks are different. 



Length, 3f ; breadth, 1^ lines. 



Thames. Mr. Albert Kobele, the eminent American entomologist, 

 kindly gave me the specimen he found. 



Group SCRAPTIID-flE. 



Scraptogetus. 



Nov. gen. 



Eyes entire, prominent, widely separated above. Thorax without 

 distinct lateral margins. No neck. Maxillary palpi with their 

 terminal joint not cultriform ; its apex is truncate, grooved, and, 

 apparently, minutely denticulate, it is rounded towards the base, and 

 the point of articulation is more to one side than to the other. 

 Tarsi heteromerous, the basal joint of the front pair is as long as the 



