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genus. The much shorter maxillary palpi, long square muzzle, and elongated 

 scape are the most obvious structural peculiarities. 



Leptachrous strigipennis. 



Cerambyx strigipennis, Westw. Arc. Ent, ii. p. 27, pi. 56. f.6. 



Port Nicholson. Christchurch. 



Ambeodontus tristis. 



Saperda tristis, Fab. Syst. Entom. p. 186. 



Phlycicenodes trituberculatus, Recltenb. Reise Novara, Col. p. 18S. 



Three examples received from Mr. Fereday, of Christchurch, belong 



undoubtedly to the same species as the type specimen of Saperda tristis still 



preserved in the Banksian collection at the British Museum. They agree also 

 well with Bedtenbacher's description cited above. 



Ambeodontus retiferus, Lacord. Gen. ix. p. 374 (note). 



Agapantliida pulchella, "White, Yoy. Ereb. k Terr. p. 22, pi. 4. f.10. 

 Placed by Lacordaire near Phlyctamodes. 



Ophryops pallidus, White, Voy. Ereb. and Terr. p. 19, pi. 4. f.8. 

 Port Nicholson. I have not been able to examine the type of this and the 



preceding species. 



Astetholea, nov. gen. 



Corpus lineare, depressum, fere glabrum. Caput breve, rotundatum, 

 exsertum, inter antennas latum, planum, post oculos gradatim angustatum, 

 genis brevibus haud angulatis. Antennce breviter pubescentes, scapo gradatim 

 clavato, articulo tertio quam scapo vel articulo quarto breviore. Oculi magni, 

 reniformes, grosse granulati, supra longe distantes. Thorax rhomboideus, 

 planatus. Elytra linearia, apice obtuse rotundata. Pedes modice elongati ; 

 femora gradatim incrassata. Coxce antics conicse, contiguse, exsertse, prosterno 

 ante coxas truncate; coxse intermedin contiguse, mesosterno antice triangulari, 

 inter coxas haud continuato. Abdomen (P.) normale. 



This is another of the anomalous forms of Longicornia, of which there are 



so many in Australia and New Zealand. Its nearest ally seems to be 



Tricheops \ but the head is nearly plane between the antennse, and the 



antenniferous tubers are almost horizontal, with a continuous impressed 

 dorsal line. 



Astetholea pauper, n. sp. 



A. fulvo-testacea, glabra, pedibus pallidioribus ; capite thoraceque laavibus 

 subsericeis, hoc medio utrinque angulari haud spinoso ; elytris punctulatis, 

 utrinque bicostulatis, apud latera at apicem Iambus. Long. 3^ — 4 lin. M, F. 



Linear and depressed, nearly glabrous, but moderately shining. The head 

 and thorax in their wider Darts are as broad as tlip. plvfra • +Tia 1*Ma* am 



