Coleoptera of New Zealand. 245 



Haptoderi. The palpi have tlic terminal joints naiTowed to 

 the tip and very briefly (tlie maxillaries in the male not at all) 

 truncated. The head is rather small, and shows scarcely any 

 trace of the usual frontal foveas ; the thorax has on each side 

 of the base a single deep, almost sulciform, fovea, and its 

 whole surface is im punctate. The elytra have a well-developed 

 scutellar striole between the suture and the first stria ; the in- 

 terstices are plane in the subopaque female and a little more 

 convex in the shining male, but in both sexes they become 

 narrow and convex at the apex, and the first stria is continued 

 round the ajiex to the marginal stria. 



Argutor erythroiyus^ Blanch., as far as the veiy insuffi- 

 cient description goes, agrees with this species ; but no mention 

 is made of the two punctui-es on the third interstice. 



Argutor pantomelas, Blanch. Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. iv. 

 p. 27, t. ii. f. 6. 



8-9 raillims. Rather broad, black ; elytra nearly plane ; 

 jialpi clear red ; thorax "with two lineiform fovese on each 

 side. 



The description almost applies to the 0. {Holcaspis) sylvaticus 

 of the same author ; and the species probably belongs to IIol- 

 caSjpis. 



Argutor erythropus, Blanch. I. c. p. 27, t. ii. f. 7. 



Probably a Haptoderus. 



Argutor piceus^ Blanch. I. c. p. 28, t. ii. f. 8. 



The head is described as having two large rugose fovea?, and 

 the elytra as ovate. 



Feronia (Platysma) vigil, White, /. c. p. 3. 

 Nothing can be made of the superficial description given. 



Feronia (Platysma) 2)olitissima, White, /. c. p. 4. 



Port Nicholson. 



The same remark as above a])plies to this species. 



Molojysida jyoUfa, White, I. c. p. 6. 



Waikouaiti. 



I have not succeeded in finding the type of this insufficiently 

 described genus and species in tlic British Museum. 



Alogus monachicus, Motscli. Bull. Mosc. 1865, iv. p. 245. 

 7^ lines. Similar to Omascus in form, but broader and 



