CoLENSo. — On new Species of Ortboptera and Coleoptera. 281 



Hab. — In dark underground caves near the head of the Manawatu river, 

 in the " Forty mile bush," 1879. 



This pecuhar and very interesting animal, (of which I regret to say I 

 have but one whole specimen), inhabits in great numbers those small caves 

 which are difficult of access ; there they hop and spring about like shrimps, 

 and having such excessively long and fine horns and legs, it is a very difficult 

 matter to secure a perfect specimen ; of course the necessity of having a 

 candle burning when in those dark recesses, greatly increases the difficulty. 

 I am indebted to Mr. J. W. Thomson, of Norsewood, for this specimen here 

 described, who captured the insect there, together with some others, which, 

 however, were unfortunately much crushed and broken. The brightness of 

 its colours when fresh, particularly of its black-and-white ringed legs, their 

 excessive tenuity, and the extreme length of its fine setaceous horns, all 

 tend to give this creature an elegant and graceful appearance ; in this 

 respect widely diifering from the other known species of this genus. 



COLEOPTEEA. 

 Fam. CuRcuLioNiD^. Grenus Scolopterus. 

 Scolopterus suhnetallicus, n. sp. 



General colour black-green, very glossy, femora purple-black, legs 

 piceous ; elytra punctured coarsely in lines on back, faintly on sides ; 

 head smooth ; shoulder-spines straight, acute ; posterior femora large, 

 armed with a large acute tooth near base ; pulvilli bordered with white. 

 Length 4i lines. 



Hab. — Forests near head of Manawatu river, 1880. 



This specimen flew down from a high tree, and alighted on the sleeve 

 of my coat. As a species it ranks near to S. tetr acanthus. 



Genus Rhyncodes. 

 Rhyncodes iveberi, n. sp. 



Insect villous ; general colour reddish-brown intermixed with grey, and 

 mottled with small greyish- white blotches on elytra ; pronotum brown, 

 finely punctulate ; elytra, five black shining longitudinal lines slightly and 

 closely tuberculated in small raised dots, parallel with five black smooth 

 lines, outer edge stout, black, glossy, strongly and regularly marked with 

 small transverse riblets running inwards at right-angles ; abdomen beneath 

 black glossy, with a few short scattered hairs, and three broad longitudinal 

 rows of mottled hairs ; femora, and sides (shoulders) of pronotum, black, 

 glossy, and slightly punctulate ; a small tuft of reddish hairs at bases of 

 femora ; coxa densely villous ; tibice and iam very hairy ; pulvilli very 

 large, broadly orbicular-obcordate ; antenna stout, serrated, hairy through- 

 out and coarsely ciliated, nearly as long as the rostrum ; head and rostrum 

 very hairy, with red-brown hairs. Length, including rostrum, 15 hnes. 



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