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smooth, but with a short furrow hehiud along tlie middle. 

 Ycutral segments finely jiunctate^ but without other marks. 



Length \^, breadth \ line. 



Clevedon. 



The unique damaged specimen found about thirty years 

 ago at Tairua (no. 629) was refcncd to Apate, but the capture 

 of two more recently on the Hunua Range enables me to 

 define the position of the species more accurately, so I 

 thought it advisable to redescribe it. 



Group Lamiidae. 

 Sumatidia testudu, sp. n. 



Convex, moderately elongate, slightly nitid, rather sparsely 

 pubescent, rufo-fuscous ; the base, sides, apex, and a post- 

 median fascia of the elytra fuscous. 



Thorax transverse, its greater portion rounded laterally, 

 widest at the middle, much narrowed, almost constricted, 

 near the base ; its surface is moderately coarsely and irregu- 

 larly punctured except on a large triangular discoidal space, 

 which is quite smooth ; its clothing is yellowish, decumbent, 

 and scanty, but more concentrated before the scutellum. 

 Elytra rather elongate, broadest before the middle; their 

 pubescence is very fine, dejjressed, and ash-coloured, there 

 are also numerous short, erect, reddish setae ; the punctuation 

 is coarse and irregular, there is a slight longitudinal elevation 

 on each near the base, but no other inequalities. 



Antenna stout, shorter than the body, reddish, pubescent, 

 joints 4-11 more or less infuscate, third joint longest, about 

 one third longer than fourth. Femora stout, infuscate ; 

 til)i8e and tarsi testaceous, the former with a brown spot near 

 the extremity, their basal portion also infuscate. 



Abdomen fuscous, very gradually narrowed backwards; 

 segments 1-4 slightly diminish in length, fifth longer than 

 the precediug one ; its covering consists of depressed cinereous 

 hail's. 



The smooth shield-like space on tlie thorax and the rather 

 scanty inconspicuous pubescence render its recognition a 

 comparatively easy matter. 



Length 2f, breadth 1^ lines. 



Otago. 



One from Mr. Sandager. 



Auclvlaiid, New Zealand, 

 ISth March, 1904. 



