222 On new Geneva and Species of Coleoptera. 



Scntellum invisum. Elytra cordiformia, prothorace latiora, 

 humeris obliquis. Femora crassa ; tibial versus apicem valde 

 ampliatse, posticse corbellis cavernosis ; tarsi artieulis duobus 

 basalibus triangularibus, secundo minore, tertio late bilobo ; 

 ultimo mediocre ; unguiculis liberis ; coxas anticae haud contiguae. 

 Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus amplis, sutura prima ar- 

 cuata. 



It is not without hesitation that I place this genus with the 

 Rkyparosomince, the cavernous corbels of the posterior tibiae 

 being exceptional. It has, however, some analogy at least to 

 Dysostines on account of its large prothorax and the non- 

 contiguity of the anterior coxse. At any rate there is no 

 other place for it in u Section A" of the " Phane'rognathes 

 symmerides " of Lacordaire, to which the genus belongs. Of 

 ray two specimens one has a few patches of dark-coloured 

 scales on the middle of the elytra ; in the other the dark 

 predominates, the white forming dispersed spots on the upper 

 surface. 



Cecyropa tychioides. PL V. fig. 3. 



G. sat late ovalis, fusca, squamulis griseo-albidis adpressis, supra 

 plus minusve fuscis interjectis, omnirio dense tecta ; rostro 

 antennisque squamulosis, his ferrugineis setulis adspersis ; pro- 

 thorace ante medium latiore, utrinque valde rotundato, apice 

 quam basi duplo angustiore ; elytris seriatim punctatis, punctis 

 approximatis, juxta apicem sat subito deflexis ; pedibus parce 

 setulosis. Long. 2|lin. 



Hob. Pitt's Island ; Wellington. 



Cranopliorus venustus. 



C. elliptico-ovatus, modice convexus, villosus, niger, supra sat 

 confertim punctulatus ; prothorace utrinque late flavo-marginato ; 

 elytris singulis margine externo maculisque duabus magnis flavis. 

 Long. 2\ lin. 



Hah. Waikato. 



Cranopliorus, Muls., is easily recognized by the prolonga- 

 tion of the anterior part of the prothorax completely covering 

 the head (not emarginate as in the generality of the Coccinel- 

 lidse). Two species only from the Cape were known hitherto. 

 I have but a single specimen of the species before me ; but a 

 minuter examination might show structural peculiarities re- 

 quiring its generic separation from the Cape species, which 

 have certainly a somewhat different aspect. Only four mem- 

 bers of the family are known from New Zealand, viz. Cocci- 

 nella Tasmanii, G. concinna 7 Lais antipodum, and the above; 

 Capt. Broun has sent two or three species of Scymnus } not 

 yet determined, and possibly introduced. 



