Pascor.—New Genera and Species of N.Z. Coleoptera. 427 
articulo ultimo apice obliquo, palpis maxillaribus articulo ultimo 
valde transverso ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter, elytris fere obsolete 
punctatis ; tibiis modice triangularibus ; prosterno postice paulo 
bilobo. Long. 13 lin. 
Hab.: Auckland. 
Rather narrower than T. «nea, and the elytra more cuneate. The 
nearly allied Australian genus Thallis, Er., has filiform palpi. I have 
named this interesting species after Captain Broun, whose numerous dis- 
coveries are adding so much to our knowledge of the insect-fauna of New 
Zealand. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
Fig. 1. Tysius amplipennis : 1 a, head. 
Fig. 2. Phrynixus terreus; 2 a, head (the eye is much too small) 
Fig. 8. Cecyropa tychioides. 
Fig. 4. Inophleus traversii. 
Fig. 5. Actizeta albata. 
Fig. 6. Phycosecis discoidea ; 6 a, antenna; 6 b, fore tibia and tarsus; 6 e, maxilla 
with its palpus , 6 d, mentum with the lower lip and its palpi. 
Fig. 7. Stenopotes pallidus, 
Fig. 8. Xyloteles costatus. 
Fig. 9. Xuthodes punctipennis. 
Fig. 10. Syrphetodes marginatus. 
Fig.11. Right fore tibia and tarsus of Actizeta albata (the artist has placed it ina 
position to represent the left). 11 a, antenna; but the basal joint has 
been unaccountably omitted. 
Fig. 12. Head of Cyttalia griseipila. 
Art. LILL.— Notes on the occurrence of a Curlew, probably Numenius cyanopus,” 
Vieillot, in New Zealand. By Jurus von Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, May 4th, 1876.] 
For years past I have repeatedly been informed by several sportsmen in this 
Province, that they had observed specimens of a large Curlew in the estuaries 
of some of our rivers, and although every attempt was made to secure a 
specimen for the Canterbury Museum, for a long time it proved unsuecess- 
ful. Thus Mr. Alexander Barnes, of Saltwater Creek, told me that he had 
seen about six years ago as many as five together, which were so shy that 
he could never get near enough to fire at them. In the last four years he 
has seen, however, only one solitary bird, the others having disappeared. 
Similar accounts have reached me from the South. 
* Bee ante, p. 333, 
