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

 scape are the most obvious structural peculiarities. 



Leptaclirous stHgipennis. 

 Ceranibyx strlgipennis, Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. p. 27, pi. 5G. f.6. 

 Port Nicholson. Christchurch. 



Amheodontus tristis. 



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



PhlyctcBiiodes trituherculattis, Redtenb. Eeise Novara, Col. p. 188. 



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

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

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

 well with Redtenbacher's description cited above. 



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



Agapantliida pulchella, White, Yoy. Ereb. & Terr. p. 22, pi. 4. f.lO. 

 Placed by Lacordaire near Phlyctoinodes. 



OjjJiryops 2yaUidus, White, Yoy. 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 hand angulatis. Antemice 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. Coxcb anticse conicse, contiguse, exsertse, prosterno 

 ante coxas truncate ; coxae intermedise contiguse, mesosterno antice triangulari, 

 inter coxas hand continuato. Abdomen (F.) 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 

 Tricheo2)s ; but the head is nearly plane between the antenna3, and the 

 antenniferous tubers are almost horizontal, with a continuous impressed 

 dorsal line. 



Astetholea pauper, n. sp. 



A. fulvo-testacea, glabra, pedibus pallidioribus ; capito thoraceque lajvibus 

 Bubsericeis, hoc medio utrinque angulari baud spinoso ; elytris punctulatis, 

 utrinque bicostulatis, apud latera at apicem lajvibus. Long. 3] — 4 lin. M. F. 



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

 and thorax in their wider parts are as broad as the elytra ; the latter are 



