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Some caution must be exercised in regard to introduced species. New 
Zealand, it has been observed, seems to have a slight hold on its animal 
and plant life; and, conversely, introduced species seem to do well. In 
that category I believe I may place the Australian Cyttalia griseipila (ante, 
XI., p. 195), or at least a form so closely allied that I hesitate to place it as 
a distinct species; it is found very commonly on a plant called the 
** Spaniard,” whatever that may be. An Onthophagus, apparently identical 
with the Australian O. fulvolineatus, Bl., and an Aphodius, like A. pusillus, 
have also been received ; but there could have been no pabulum for such 
insects formerly. Captain Hutton has likewise sent from Wellington 
numerous specimens of our Otiorhynchus sulcatus. I suspect, among others, 
a Catops, a Scymnus, a Ptinus, some wood-borers, etc. 
Morychus coruscans. 
M. ellipticus, valde convexus, nitidissime seneus, antennis pedibusque 
pallide ferrugineis; capite leviter subeonfertim punctato ; prothorace 
elytrisque coriaceis, subtilissime punctatis ; scutello transversim tri- 
angulari, impunctato; corpore infra ferrugineo, leviter punctato ; 
femoribus tibiisque sparse hirsutis. Long. 2 lin. 
Hab.: Wellington. 
Of this species I have seen only one specimen. It is very like the 
European M. auratus; but, inter alia, it is narrower, more minutely pune- 
tured, and the scutellum is transverse. 
Liocuoria. 
Antenne subelongate, articulis sex ultimis, ultimo excepto, perfoliatis, 
clavam angustatam formantibus. Labrum magnum, distinctum. 
Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo ovali. Tiíbie antice extus excavate. 
I have only a single specimen of the species described below ; but, so 
far as I have been able to examine it, it seems to differ from Morychus in 
the six-jointed, very narrow club of the antenng. It is apparently perfectly 
free from any villosity ; but under a strong lens very short, erect, hair-like 
bristles are seen to exist. 
Liochoria huttoni. 
L. elliptica, convexa, nigra, nitida, antennis pedibusque piceis; capite 
prothoraceque confertim subtiliter, elytris subtilissime punctatis ; 
scutello equilateraliter triangulari; corpore infra femoribusque sub- 
tiliter punctatis, sparse hirsutis; tibiis extus integris, intus ciliatis. 
Long. 33 lin. 
Hab.: Otago. 
Pncoskcis. 
Caput transverum, deflectum. Antenne longiuscule, 11-articulate, 
* [n a note Phycosecis algarum and P. litoralis, from Australia. 
