384 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
ABSTRACT OF PAPER ON NEW ZEALAND SCYDMAINIDA:. 
BY CAPT. THOS. BROUN, M.E.S. | 
(Read before the Auckland Institute, October, 1884.) 
1656: Scydmenus princeps, n.sp.—Convex, very elongate, medially 
narrowed, sparsely clothed with sub-erect yellow hairs; shining piceo- 
rufous, legs and antenne paler, tarsi fulvous. 
Corresponds with the description of S. edwardsi, but the pygidium 
is pubescent, the thorax has four basal punctures, and the elytra are 
obsoletely punctated. 
Length, 14; breadth, % line. 
Discovered by Mr. 8. W. Fulton, at Taieri, Otago. 
1657: S. galerus, n.sp.—Elongate, broadest behind middle femora, 
convex ; shining, infuscate-red, tarsi fulvous ; body pubescent. 
Differs from S. princeps in size, form and colour ; from S. laetans 
in being much broader and more convex, in the hind-body being widest 
after the middle and less attenuated apically, in the pygidium being 
much less exposed, and in the more robust antenne, Xe. 
Length, 1; breadth, } line. 
Hab. : Helensville, terminus of Kaipara railway. 
1658: Phaganophana oreas, u.sp.—Convex, pubescent, shining, 
dark rufous, piceous behind, tarsi fulvous. 
In no other species are the shoulders so much elevated, and the 
oblique elytral depressions and convex suture are distinctive. 
Length, 14; breadth, 2 line. 
Mr. 8. W. Fulton. Hilly country at Taieri. 
1659: P. lanosa, n.sp.—Like P. calva, but with a shorter thorax, 
the hind-body much broader and more strongly rounded, the legs more 
slender (particularly the posterior), the structure of the antenne 
different, and the palpi more slender. 
Length, ? ; breadth, % line. 
Near Howick, Auckland. 
1660: P. angustata, n.sp.—EHlongate, slightly convex, densely 
clothed with golden-yellow hairs, head and thorax pitchy-red, elytra 
rufo-castaneous, sntenne red, tarsi yellow. 
The head and thorax are narrower, and the after-body broader but 
less convex than in P. calva. 
Length, #; breadth, } line. 
Near Howick. 
CoLYDIIDé. 
1661: Ulonotus isostictus, u.sp.—Elongate-oblong, infuscate-red, 
bearing short yellowish sete ; each elytron with a large blackish space 
not reaching the suture behind. 
Length, 1}; breadth, 3 line. 
Near Howick, Auckland. 
