388 Capt. T. Broun on neio 



hairs ; red, elytra chestnut-red, suffused with piceous behind ; 

 tarsi pale red. 



Bostrum cylindric, not at all broad, finely and distantly 

 punctured. Head behind the eyes twice the breadth of the 

 rostrum, convex and glossy. Thorax widest behind the 

 middle, rounded there, gradually but considerably narrowed 

 towards the front, much constricted near the apex ; the disk 

 very little convex, with distinct, moderately fine, distant 

 punctures, the sides more closely sculptured, the apical 

 portion almost quite smooth. Elytra slightly and gradually 

 narrowed posteriorly, the shoulders not wider than the 

 broadest part of the thorax ; dorsum nearly flat, regularly 

 striate, the strias with distinct but not very closely placed 

 punctures ; interstices with fine serial punctures. Scape 

 shining and glabrous, considerably shoi'ter than the funiculus. 

 Cluh densely and obviously pilose. Tihice at the inner angle 

 with a spiniform seta. Coxcb widely separated, the anterior 

 much further apart than in Phloiophagosoma. 



Sexual differences slight ; in the female the rostrum is 

 rather longer and more slender than in the male. 



No, 942, temporarily placed in Phloecphagosoma^ must be 

 transferred to this genus. It may be distinguished from 

 8. nitida by its more coarsely and closely sculptured thorax, 

 the punctures just behind the constriction are quite close ; 

 the elytral grooves are rather deeper and broader, with more 

 punctures in them. 



Length If, breadth f line. 



Hunua Range, Glevedon. 



Group Cerambycidge. 



Didymocaniha pallida^ sp. n. 



Slender^ elongate, shining, pale testaceous ; antennae and 

 legs pale yellow ; with very few erect pallid hairs. 



Head, in line with the eyes, as wide as the thorax ; the 

 punctures on the vertex rather small and distant, those behind 

 the eyes smaller but closer. Eyes large, coarsely faceted, 

 their greatest bulk in front below the antennee. Thorax of 

 equal length and breadth, widest at the middle, each side 

 with a prominent tubercle there and a smaller one near the 

 front ; on the disk in line with the frontal tubercles there are 

 two small, indistinctly raised, smooth spots ; along the middle, 

 but not extending to the apex, there is a broad smooth space, 

 this near the base becomes a linear impression ; the punc- 

 tures are fine, distant, and reddish, near the sides they are 



