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fluently punctured; the interstices (especially at the sides) elevated, 
minutely granulose, reticulately confluent, sometimes assuming the form of 
irregular nodules, at others of small umbilicated tubercles ; the ordinary 
series of narrow coste and the row of fover within the side-margins more 
or less apparent; sides rather strongly expanded, concave, transversely 
reticulately rugose-punctate and granulous: underside, legs, antenne, etc., 
as in C. opacula. 
Length 74-8} lines ; width of elytra B74 lines. 
Hab. Otago, New Zealand. Four examples. 
Var.? grandis. 
Larger (length 9 lines; width of elytra 4 lines); the elytra Jess 
convex, distinctly more gradually declivous behind; the punctuation, 
etc. (on the elytra especially) coarser, the punctures larger, the interstices 
still more eleyated and more uniformly reticulate ; the apical emargination 
of the prothorax distinctly sinuous; the tibie (especially the anterior) dis- 
tinctly less closely punctured, and the entire upper surface of a browner 
colour. 
Hab, New Zealand. One example. ‘ - 
Cilibe elongata, Bréme, and C. phosphugoides, White. 
Examples of C, elongata obtained from the collections of Reiche and 
Doué (presumably authentic exponents of the species) do not differ from C. 
phosphugoides except in the form of the prothorax, which in the former has 
the sides more obliquely narrowed anteriorly, and the elytra, which are 
more acuminate behind. Experience has shown us that these differences 
possess no true specific value in this genus: C. phosphugoides must conse- 
quently be sunk under C. elongata. 
This species is much smaller than any of those preceding ; the form is 
more or less elongate-oval ; prothorax shining black ; the expanded lateral 
margins paler ; the elytra are of a more or less deep purplish or chocolate- 
brown. Head convex between the eyes, trapezoidal in front, with the 
borders usually dark ferruginous, more or less strongly, closely, and some- 
times rugosely punctured ; epistoma convex, more or less distinctly areuate- 
emarginate in front, the sutural impression more or less distinct: the form 
and punctuation of the prothorax is variable; it is always of a shining 
black, convex, a depression on the middle near the base, another smaller 
at each side at the basal margin; usually very finely and not closely 
punctured on the disk, the punctures more crowded at the sides and finely 
rugulose, more or less distinctly granulous on the intervals; lateral 
margins moderately expanded and concave, the edges finely and uniformly 
thickened ; apex deeply emarginate, front angles more or less acute, and 
