Bates. — On the Longicorn Coleoptera of New Zealand. 319 



smooth on the sides (which are vertical) and near the apex, but punctulate 

 and with two raised discoidal lines from the base to beyond the middle. 

 Auckland (Mr. Lawsori) ; three examples. 



Blosyropus spiiiosus, Redtenb. Reise No vara, Col. p. 192, t.v. f.10. 

 The author does not specify the structure of the eyes, so that it remains 

 uncertain whether this large and remarkable Longicorn belongs to this or the 

 following division. The form of the head, according to the figure, much 

 resembles that of Astetholea. 



Psilomorpha tenuipes, Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 2nd ser. i. p. 80, t.4. f.l. 

 Found in New Zealand, according to Redtenbacher (Col. No vara, p. 188). 



Division 2. Eyes finely faceted. 



Stenoderus suturalis, Oliv. 

 Recorded by Redtenbacher as taken in New Zealand. 



Calliprason sinclairi. 



Calliprason sinclairi, White, Dieffenb. New Zeal. ii. p. 277 ; Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 

 p. 27, t.56. f.3. 



Calliprason marginatum, "White, Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Ins. p. 23, t.4. f.6. 

 The exact locality of neither of these two species is recorded, and I have 

 not yet seen examples of them. 



Zorion minutum. 



Callidium minutum, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 192. 

 Obrium fdbricianum, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. p. 28. 



I have seen a large number of specimens from Auckland. Amongst them 

 are several varieties, in one of which the white elytral fascia is reduced to a 

 round spot margined with violet, and the pale bases of the femora are 

 terminated by a dusky ring. 



Zorion guttigerum, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. p. 28, t. 56, f. 4. 



Port Nicholson, 



A specimen from Mr. Lawson, taken near Auckland, differs from West- 

 wood's description by having the head and greater part of the thorax testaceous 

 yellow, nearly as in Z. minutum ; the tibise and tarsi are also violet-brown, 

 like the clubs of the femora. It remains with New Zealand coleopterists to 

 decide by observation on the spot whether these diversities of colouration 

 really indicate specific differences, and whether there are really more than one 

 variable species in the islands. 



Gasteosarus, nov. gen. 

 Corpus lineare, nitidum, sparsim erecte pubescens. Caput exsertum, post 

 oculos paulo angustatum sed baud elongatum ; frons brevis, verticalis. Oculi 

 magni, modice convexi et granulati, laterales, supra distantes. Palpi paulo 



