Undcscrihed Cossonidcv. 203 



more sccde-like setre), but likewise in its prothorax being 

 (instead of sharply punctured) coarsely and irregularly, 

 but not deeply, variolose and subreticulate, and in the third 

 joint of its feet being wide and more cordate. 



GENUS PHLCEOPHAGOSOMA. 



Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc, Loud., 23 (1873). 



Phlceophagosoma thoracicum, n. sj). 



P. parallelo-fusiforme, angustulum, subcylindricum, con- 

 vexiusculum, nitidum, nigro-piceum elytris piceis ; rostro 

 longiusculo, parallelo, subarcuato, sat dense punctulato ; 

 oculis parvis sed prominentibus ; prothorace (pone medium 

 latitudine elytrorum) magno, elongato, triangulari-ovato, 

 antice obsolete constricto, sat grosse sed vix dense 

 punctate ; elytris subcylindricis basi rectissime truncatis, 

 profunde punctate-, aut fere subcrenato-striatis, interstitiis 

 subconvexis ac minutissime parcissimeque punctulatis ; 

 antennis pedil) usque piceis. 



Long. corp. lin. 2 — 21 



Hahitat in Nova Zealandia, a Dom. Broun ad Dom. 

 Sharp nuperrime missum. 



Obs. — Species P. corvino, NovcB Zealandia?, prima facie 

 similis ; sed differt colore magis piceo (nee atro), prothorace 

 majore sublatiore subremotius punctato et antice obsoletius 

 constricto, oculis magis prominentibus, elytrisque pro- 

 fundius punctato-striatis necnon ad basin conspicue 

 rectius truncatis. 



The two examples from which the above diagnosis has 

 been drawn out have recently 1 )een communicated ^ by ]Jr. 

 Sharp, who received them from Captain Jjroun in New 

 Zealand ; and the species which they represent is evidently 

 much allied to the F. corvinum. It is, however, unques- 

 tionably distinct from the latter, — differing from it not 

 merely in its more piceous hue, but likewise in its larger 

 or somewhat more developed prothorax (which is more 

 obsoletely constricted in front, and a trifle more remotely 

 punctured), in its eyes (although small) being more 



