58 On new Genera and Species of Cvhoplera. 



near the suture, on each, there is one regular series of 

 distinct and moderately close punctures extending from base 

 to apex; the second series readies from the apex to beyond 

 the middle, but between it and the shoulder there are some 

 irregular, oblique, and more distant rows; the series near the 

 side are irregular and almost curvate ; the surface is uneven, 

 but there are no well-defined nodosities. Legs variegated 

 with brown, testaceous, or red, yet seldom constant, the 

 setffi similarly mottled. 



Underside covered w'ith infuscate matter and numerous 

 flavescent setae. AVhen carefully scraped the prosternum 

 appears truncate instead of being somewhat emarginate; 

 interposed between the front edge and the coxae there is a 

 transverse groove, and behind this a distinct ridge; the coxae 

 are rather iurther apart thau in P. binudosus, and the inter- 

 vening space is plane instead of being concave, as it is in 

 that species. 



Length 2|-3 ; breadth U-l| lines. 



Wellington. 



Mr. G. V. Hudson kindly seut me some specimens of 

 this interesting species. 



Group Ehipiphoridae. 

 Rhypistena cryptai'thra. 



Narrate, elongate, dull black, clothed with short decumbent 

 cinereous pubescence; antennai and tarsi fuscous, palpi 

 paler. 



Head densely and minutely punctate. Thorax very much, 

 yet gradually, narrowed anteriorly, so that there it is not 

 half the width of the I ead ; its base is deeply bisinuate, and 

 the posterior angles clasp the shoulders; it is very obtusely 

 elevated along the middle, and its sculpture is like that of 

 the head. Scutellum large, triangular. Elytra elongate, 

 scarcely any \\ider than the thorax at the base; apices 

 acutely rounded ; they are closely and minutely sculptured, 

 and have, on each, two or thiee indistinct costse. Tarsi 

 long and slender. 



Antenna elongate, basal joint i-tout and evidently longer 

 than third, secoiid jather longer than broad, third haruly 

 any longer than it is biqad and slender at the base, fourth 

 excessively short and almost indistinguishable ; joints 5-lU 

 very short, each with a long slender lobe equalling the 

 fc ur basal joints taken together ; eleventh equally elongate ; 

 these seven lobes, in repose, are closely adapted to one 

 another. 



