112 Mr. F. Bates cm New Genera 



elytra, nor the apically rounded intercoxal process, as in 

 Cymheba disslmilis. I possess examples of this latter coming 

 from Cape York, New Hebrides, and New Caledonia. 



Pheloneis limyaloides^ White [Adeliuni). 



This genus was created by Mr. Pascoe (Journ. of Entom. 

 ii. p. 483) to receive the Adelium liarpaloides of White. The 

 Amarosoma siviulans of Redtenbaclier I believe to be the same 

 thing. According to my view it cannot be separated from 

 Adelium^ which is evidently a polymorphous genus. Should 

 this view be correct, the name will require changing, there 

 being already an Adelium harpaloides, Boisduval : I should 

 suggest the name amaroides for it. The male of this species 

 has the lower edge of the four hind femora emarginate and 

 fringed with long hairs. 



Messrs. Gemminger and Von Harold, in their great Cata- 

 logue, have included the species in the genus Pseiidhehps of 

 Guerin. This is manifestly wrong, Psendhelops having, 

 amongst other differential characters, the penultimate joint of 

 the tarsi simple, not subbilobed. The same authors have most 

 unwarrantably sunk the genus Corvpera of Pascoe under Pseud- 

 heIo2)s ; Cortjjera is evidently a good genus, very near to, but 

 quite distinct from, Adelium. 



Amarygmus zelandicus^ n. sp. 



Form and general aspect of ^. hydropMloides^ Fairm. ; but 

 differs from it, and from all the other species of the genus 

 known to me, in having the four hind tibiae attenuate at the 

 base, and then expanded, and strongly sinuous (almost broadly 

 dentate in the hind pair) at the inner margin. 



Prothorax green, with a slight bluish tinge, brassy at the 

 sides : elytra green, with a brassy tinge, the sutural region a 

 little coppery ; head and prothorax finely and, except on the 

 epistoma, not very closely punctured : elytra punctate-striate, 

 the strife distinctly deeper and the punctures a little larger than 

 in A. hydrophiloides ; intervals finely and not closely punctu- 

 late : underside and legs piceous ; tarsi and basal joints of 

 antennas paler ; lower margin of the four posterior femora 

 emarginate ; anterior tarsi strongly expanded, the intermediate 

 thickened ; antennaj elongate. 



Length 3| lines. 



Hab. New Zealand. One example. 



The peculiarities observable in the tibife and tarsi of this 

 species are either sexual or subgeneric. 



