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fulvis. Long. 2} lin. 
b.: Christchurch ; Auckland. 
Not unlike a small individual of Opilus mollis. The genus is somewhat 
doubtful. 
Ecromipa. 
Characteres generici fere ut in Pristodero, sed tarsis tibiisque aliis, scil. 
articulis duobus basalibus conjunctis triangulum breviusculum for- 
mantibus, tertio, parvo, angusto; tibiis extus compressis, margine 
exteriore denticulatis. 
Dermestes scaber, Fab.,* is congenerie with Pristoderus antarcticus, 
White; Eriehson's Ulonotus is probably founded on one of these two (he 
does not describe amy species) ; Lacordaire, indeed, suggested the identity 
of these genera. In Pristoderus the tarsi are simply linear, and the tibia 
filiform, not denticulate externally. The species here described is remark- 
able on account of the dilatation, deeply divided into lobes, of the sides of 
the prothorax; the insect varies in colour from uniform yellowish testaceous 
to brownish or with brownish patches. 
Ectomida lacerata. 
E. oblonga, depressa, subtestacea, aliquando infuscata vel fusco varie- 
gata, subtiliter tomentosa ; capite tuberculis parvis instructo; anten- 
nis artieulis duobus basalibus erassis, tertio ad octavum gradadatim 
brevioribus, clava fusca, articulis duobus basalibus valde transversis, 
ultimo rotundato; prothorace rugoso, lateribus foliaceis, trilobis, 
lobo anteriore tripartito, lobis duobus posticis multo minoribus í 
scutello parvo; elytris striato-punctatis, seriatim tuberculatis, tuber- 
culis interioribus quatuor, quorum tribus majoribus, marginibus 
externis serratis, apicibus divergentibus. Long. 11-2 lin. 
Hab.: Auckland (Tairua 
Adelium bullatum. 
A. nitide nigrum, vel subnigrum ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter punc- 
tatis, hoe transverso, in medio leviter canaliculato, lateribus rotun- 
dato, basi sat lato, angulis posticis subacutis ; Scutello parvo, 
transverso ; elytris elongato-cordatis, leviter irregulariter punctatis, 
* “ Nova Hollandia" is given as the habitat; but the type in the British Museum 
is the only individual I have seen. Dermestes limbatus, Fab. “ Enter Syst.” L, p. 234), 
is either my Phycosecis discoidea or P. atomaria (ante, Vol. XVI., pp. 213, 214). I in- 
cline to the former; but Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, who has carefully compared them, thinks 
it is the latter; the two specimens in the British Museum are barely recognizable. 
Fabricius must have been labouring under difficulties when, in describing these two 
species from the Banksian collection, he referred them to Dermestes, with which, it is 
almost needless to say, they have no affinit 
