00 Capt. T. Broun o?j new 



! longate setae; tlie inner angulation of the anterior is quite 

 „cute, the outer lobe covers the basal joint of the tarsus ; 

 the second tarsal joint is barely half the width of the broadly 

 lobate third joint. 



Underside clothed with flat grey scales and fine setse. 

 Prosternum not deeply emarginate, fringed with setse. 

 Front coxce not quite contiguous^ the middle pair widely 

 separated by the transverse mesosternal lamina, posterior 

 more widely distant. 



Male. — Abdomen nearly fuscous along the middle^ basal 

 segment nearly double the length of the second, slightly 

 incurved behind and broadly depressed medially, third and 

 fourth combined but little longer than second^ with straight 

 well-defined sutures. 



Female. — Basal segment unimpressed, the fifth wath a large 

 fovea-like depression near each side. 



In this sex the dark marks on the thorax are not so well 

 defined, the rostrum is rather longer, and the elytra are less 

 attenuate behind. 



This species may be distinguished from C lineifera by the 

 absence of discoidal strise, by the more bead-like intermediate 

 joints of the antennae, and by the form of the eyes; these in 

 C. lineifera are more rotundate, whereas in this species they 

 are almost truncate in front. No. 1736; C. macularia, may 

 be recognized by its short posterior tibiae. 



Length (rostr. inch) 3^, breadth If lines. 



Port Lyttleton. 



One of each sex from Mr. J. J. Walker. 



Cecyropa discors, sp. n. 



Opaque, pale castaneous, densely clothed with yellowish- 

 grey and pale fuscous squamae ; these latter form some very 

 irregular discoidal spots on the elytra, a cross-like mark on 

 the middle of the thorax, and two or three spots near each 

 side. 



This species differs from C. alternata in being narrower, in 

 having two shallow longitudinal impressions on the rostrum, 

 but none on the head, in having broadly punctate striae on the 

 elytra, more pronounced posthumeral dilatations, and more 

 rounded and convex eyes. The grey setae, though short, are 

 rather longer, and the posterior tarsi are more slender. 



The/roT?^ cox(E are contiguous ; the second ventral segment 

 is larger, it is not depressed, but only somewhat flattened ; 

 the suture is mucn curved in front; and on the fifth there is 

 only a very slight impression at each side. 



