218 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and 



impresso-punctatis ; corpore infra subtiliter punctulato ; abdomine 

 segmentis quatuor basalibus utrinque macula grisea pilosa notatis. 

 Long. 7^-9 lin. 



Hob. Pitt's Island. 



What, from its narrower abdomen, I take to be the male, 

 has shorter elytra less drawn out at the apex than the female ; 

 the antennas are about the same length — a little shorter than 

 the body in both. This fine species, which at first sight 

 might be taken to be generically distinct from Xyloteles, was, 

 like the last, found by Mr. Travers in Pitt's Island, one of 

 the Chatham group. 



Tysitjs. 



Caput elongatum ; rostrum mediocre, subangulatum ; scrobes subter- 

 minales, obliquoe, infra oculos currentes. Scapus tenuatus, gra- 

 datim incrassatus, ad marginem posticum oculi attingens ; funiculus 

 7-articulatus, articulo basali elongato, ampliato, secundo breviter 

 obconico, cseteris transversis ; clava distincta, longe elliptica. 

 Oculi subrotundati, grosse granulati, a prothorace distantes. 

 Proihorax parvus, subcylindricus, antice paulo productus. Scu- 

 tellum triangulare. Elytra ampliata, oblongo-cordata, humeris 

 rotundatis. Femora antica et intermedia modice incrassata, ilia 

 mutica, postica vabda, infra fortiter dentata ; tibiae, subflexuosae, 

 apice inermes ; tarsi mediocres, articulo tertio late bilobo. Meta- 

 sternum modice elongatum. Processus intercoxalis latus, trunca- 

 tus. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis ; sutura pri- 

 ma in medio arcuata. 



The only species of this genus is ferruginous in colour, 

 with deciduous greyish scales, but always more scattered at 

 the sides, which, to the naked eye present the appearance 

 of being marked with a lai-ge brownish patch. I obtained 

 my original specimen from an old collection in the possession 

 of Mr. Stevens ; but I have since received it from Capt. 

 Broun a who finds it plentifully at Tairoa, near Auckland. 



Eugnomus, Schonh., with an undescribed New-Zealand insect 

 for its type, is unknown to me, but is apparently differentiated 

 from the present genus in several particulars,^', e. in the eyes, 

 antennas, prothorax, elytra, &c. 



Tysius amplipennis. PI. V. fig. 1. 



T. ferrugineus, squamulis grisescentibus inaequaliter vestitus, supra 

 setulis paucis adspersus ; capite confertim punctato, super oculos 

 tuberculis duobus munito; rostro capite parum longiore ; pro- 

 thorace longitudine latitudini fere sequali, pone apicem fortiter 

 constrieto ; elytris basi prothorace duplo latioribus, pone basin 

 oblique excavatis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis latis, vix convexis, 



