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parum longioribus, subsequalibus, unilateraliter dilatatis ; (female) 
corpore breviores, ll-artieulatse. Prothorax transversus, depressus, 
muticus. Elytra prothorace latiora, elongata, subparallela. Pedes 
tenuati, elongati ; femora linearia; tibie, posticæ flexuosæ exceptæ, 
rect», apice bispinose ; covæ anticæ transverse. Prosternum eleva- 
tum, postice rotundatum. Abdomen molle, lævigatum. 
The only exponent of this genus retains the name of Aphanasium australe, 
Boisd., in the British Museum,* and as such was referred by Mr. White to 
the Prionide. It is probable that Lacordaire, had he known it, would have 
placed it in his * Monodesmides." I do so now with some hesitation in 
consequence of the absence of the lateral ridges separating the pronotum 
from the sides of the prothorax, and the presence of the inner maxillary 
lobe. 
Ochrocydus huttoni, 
O. fulvescens, elytris nitide testaceis ; capite prothoraceque sat sparsim, 
pectore dense, villosis; prothorace angulo antico rotundato, lateribus 
subparallelis ; elytris sat confertim punctatis, apicibus ad suturam 
spinosis ; pedibus tenuiter pilosis; tarsis intermediis et posticis 
articulo primo quam secundo longiore ; segmento ultimis abdominis 
in femina solum detecto. Long. (male) 12 lin., (female) 15 lin. 
Hab.: Waikato ; Wellington. 
Agapanthida scutellaris. 
4. oblonga, depressa, rufo-castanea, antennis pedibusque dilutioribus, 
supra confertim punctato, griseo variegata ; scutello nigro, subscuti- 
formi, in medio excavato ; elytris apice, paulo dehiscentibus, sutura 
canaliculata. Long. 4 lin 
Hab.: Waikato. 
Judging from Mr. White's figure of A. pulchella (** Voyage of the * Erebus’ 
and ‘Terror, " Entom., tab. 4, fig. 10), this species differs, it might be thought 
almost generieally, in its shorter and much thicker femora. The derm in 
The slight intervals between the punctures on the elytra have a granulated 
appearance. Agapanthida differs from Phlyctenodes in its finely faceted eyes, 
an exceptional character in its own and allied groups. 
Triplav brounii. 
T. obovata, fusco-castanea, nitida, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, illis 
Me repudii A A E RRS 
* It was this that led me to describe the true 
under the name of Solimnia sublineata, a mistake 
inn. Soc.,” IX., p. 134). 
Aphanasium australe as a new Species 
whieh I afterwards corrected (* Journ. 
