374 Capt. T. Broun 07i new 



While it is not possible to trace the history of every cell 

 from first to last, we have as ample evidence as we could 

 hope from sections that the function of the follicle of Salpa is 

 exclusively nutritive, that it is transitory and embryonic, and 

 that the tissues of the embryo are not built up out of follicle- 

 cells, but from blastomeres, after the analogy of all the rest 

 of the animal kinaxlom. 



LVT. — Descriptions of new Coleoptera from New Zealand. 

 By Captain Thos. Broun. 



[Continued from p. 302.] 



Group Cry^torliynchidaB. 



Acalles integer^ sp. n. 



Convex^ piceous, variegate; squamosity hair-like, mostly 

 yellowish red ; at the base of the thorax, near each side and 

 near each shoulder, there are pale streaks, and there is a 

 similar but less distinct and much interrupted one between 

 the hind thighs ; near the top of the posterior declivity there 

 is a large dark band which does not reach the middle ; there 

 are also numerous erect, not coarse, variegate setas on the legs 

 as well as on the body ; antennse and tarsi reddish. 



Rostrum shorter than the thorax, with a median carina, 

 more or less squamose and punctate. Antennce implanted 

 behind the middle ; scape short, incrassate towards the apex ; 

 funiculus elongate, second joint as long as the first but much 

 more slender, 3 to 7 decrease in length ; club elongate-ovate. 

 Thorax longer than broad, widest behind the middle, more 

 (but very gradually) narrowed towards the front than it is 

 near the base, its punctuation close and rugose ; the apex is 

 rounded, the base truncate. Scutellum absent. Elytra very 

 slightly broader than the thorax at the base, widest and much 

 rounded between the middle and hind legs, from thence they 

 are gradually but a good deal narrowed ; the hind declivity 

 is not at all abrupt ; they are rather deeply and regularly 

 striate, the punctuation (owing to the clothing) is indefinite. 

 Legs robust, elongate ; femora long and thick, not dentate ; 

 front tibiai incurved, the others flexuous ; tarsi slender, third 

 joint a good deal expanded and bilobed. 



Underside with depressed, tawny, hair-like scales. Meta- 



