and Species (?/ Heteromera. Ill 



stoma very short, convex, distinctly emarginate in front, tlie 

 suture more or less distinctly marked, arcuate ; one or more 

 impressions between the eyes ; rather strongly and somewhat 

 irregularly punctured and rugose : labrum prominent, trans- 

 verse ; angles strongly rounded, notched at apex : antennae 

 moderate, a little longer in male than in female, perfoliate 

 (distinctly so in male), gradually thicker, and a little com- 

 pressed outwardly ; the joints obconic, all longer than wide, 

 3 shorter than 4 and 5 united, the last largest of all, obliquely 

 rounded at apex : prothorax subquadrate, wider than long ; 

 sides anteriorly moderately incurved, posteriorly subparallel, 

 or very slightly sinuously contracted ; apex arcuate-emargi- 

 nate, and distinctly margined throughout ; front angles a little 

 depressed, obtuse ; base closely applied to and overlapping the 

 base of the elytra, strongly emarginate at the middle, the hind 

 angles obtuse ; more or less finely, and somewhat irregularly, 

 punctured, more or less distinctly wrinkled at the sides and at 

 the hind angles, distinctly (especially at the sides) but very 

 finely pubescent ; the whole surface more or less uneven by 

 numerous in-egular foveate impressions, the most constant 

 being the romided fovea at each side of the middle at the basal 

 margin : scutellum rather large, convex, punctured, trans- 

 versely curvilinearly triangular : elytra but little broader at 

 base than the base of' prothorax, narrowed behind, finely 

 pubescent, with numerous stride, these sometimes a little 

 irregular, more or less finely impressed, but very rarely (in 

 but one out of the ten examples before me) distinctly punctured; 

 the intervals (except at the apex) flat, very finely and closely 

 muricate-punctate, here and there interrupted by irregular 

 transverse impressions, which sometimes assume the form of 

 rounded fovea? : underside bronzed brown, finely pubescent : 

 prosternum slightly compressed in front of the coxje, its pro- 

 cess rather narrow, convex, finely margined at the sides, very 

 obtuse and not produced behind ; intercoxal process wide, sub- 

 truncate at apex : legs reddish brown ; tarsi and antenna fer- 

 ruginous ; the four front tarsi distinctly more expanded in 

 male than in female ; inner edge of hind tibias fringed with 

 longish hairs in the male. 



Length 3^-4^ lines. 



ffab. New Zealand. Ten examples. 



There are some points of resemblance, especially in the form 

 of the head, between this species and the Cijmheha cUssimilis 

 of Pascoe ; and, did I liold that genus unmistakably distinct 

 from Adelium, I might be inclined to place this with it as a 

 second species. It has not, however, the produced and pointed 

 prosternal process, the distinctlv marked-off e])ipleura^ of the 



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