424 Transactions.— Zoology. 
Hoplocneme punctatissima. 
H. nigra, vel purpureo-nigra, vix nitida, femoribus apice, tibiis tar- 
sisque, subferrugineis, supra confertim punctata; capite inter 
oculos haud exeavato, collo valde constricto; clava antennarum 
majuscula ; prothorace subcylindrico, angulis anticis rotundatis ; 
scutello parvo; elytris sat ampliatis, haud striatis. Long. 14 lin. 
Hab.: Otago. 
Smaller than H. hookeri, Wh., from which it may be at once known by 
the irregularly crowded punctures on the elytra without any trace of strie, 
instead of being in regular lines. Mr. White refers Hoplocneme to the 
neighbourhood of Orchestes, with which it has nothing to do ; it is one of the 
Erirhinine, and applied to the same writer’s Stephanorhynchus. The funi- 
cle in Hoplocneme is six-jointed, and the club is four-jointed. » 
Pacrora. 
Rostrum capite brevius, cylindrieum ; scrobes oblique, infra oculos 
desinentes. Antenne subterminales scapus elongatus, pone ocu- 
los superans; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo majusculo, 
quatuor ultimis transversis; clava magna, ovata, concreta. ^ Oculi 
prominuli, laterales, rotundati, grosse granulati. Prothorav an- 
gustus. Elytra ampliata, supra irregularia, humeris callosis. 
pedes quatuor anteriores mediocres, femoribus simplicibus, tibiis 
subrectis ; pedes posteriores majores, femoribus fortiter clavatis, 
infra dente magno armatis, tibiis arcuatis, haud compressis, om- 
nibus apice muticis; tarsis articulo tertio late bilobo: unguiculi 
subdentati; coxe antice contigua, intermedism et postice lato dis 
tantes. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus valde ampliatis. 
It is with some doubt that I refer this genus to the Zrirhining. In the 
form of the hind legs it approaches the two preceding genera; but the 
head, not constricted behind to form a neck, would seem to indicate a dif- 
ferent type. Ixalma, another anomalous genus, with somewhat similar legs, 
but having a free pygidium, I refer to the neighbourhood of T'achygonus. M. 
Roelofs (**Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.,” XVII., p. 126) places his genus Celia*, appa- 
rently identical with /ralma, among the ** Eugnomides," i. e. with the Erir- 
hinine. These are all isolated forms ; but I think the pygidium offers a 
more important charaeter than the separation or the contiguity of the 
anterior coxz. The species described below differs considerably in colora- 
tion, some individuals being of an almost uniform dark brown, others pale 
brown on the disk of the elytra; some have the elytron prettily variegated— 
a central dark triangular spot with a light semicircular line behind, and 
other variations. 
* Celia has long been used for a genus of Carabidie. 
