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Length, % ; breadth, 3 line. 
Hab. Wellington ; coll. Mr Sandager. 
SYNCHITID. . 
353. Ablabus brevis, n.sp.—Oblong, rather broad and convex ; 
rufo-piceous, clothed with pale yellow, almost griseous, scale-like 
sete, legs and antennez red; underside pitchy, covered with 
granules and fine yellow hairs. 
Head granulated. Prothorax broader than long, transversely 
convex, somewhat uneven, but without conspicuous tubercles or 
depressions, granulated ; sides explanate, four-lobed, the front 
lobe largest, the basal small and distant from the elytra. Elytra 
oblong, apices obliquely rounded, sides more or less dentated ; 
disc somewhat plane, rather uneven, apparently punctate-striate, 
with a distinct compressed elevation on each side of the scutel- 
lum, two rounded ones behind, and others nearer the sides. Legs 
finely hirsute. 
The insect has been denuded of the scale-like grayish cover- 
‘ing. When just found it seems rougher, the elytra for example 
appearing to have four rows of tubercles, four in each, and the 
thorax with a medial groove-and three basal depressions. 
Comes near A. ornatus, but that species may be distinguished 
at a glance by the large black triangular space on the side of 
each elytron. 
Length, 14%; breadth ¥% line. 
Habitat, Tairua (Auckland). 
Dryptops, n. gen. — Intermediate between Tarphiomimus 
and Ulonotus, having the facies of the former, but differing in the 
less developed basal articulation of the tarsi. 
Maxillary palpi stout, terminal joint ovate, not acuminate. 
Antenne 11-articulate, basal joint stout, partially concealed from 
above, 2nd short, 3rd elongate, joints 4-8 sub-obconical and nearly 
equal ; club large three-jointed. Prothorax deeply lobed at the 
sides. lytra serrate laterally, their apices more or less pro- 
longed and somewhat divergent. Legs moderate ; tibie denticu- 
lated externally; ¢arsi four-jointed, the three first joints con- 
jointly rather shorter than the last, about equal to one another. 
Body sub-oblong, longitudinally elevated along the middle, its 
sides explanate. : 
1354. Dryptops dorsalis, n. sp.—Griseous, tarsi, antenne, palpi 
and labrum red ; sub-oblong, transversely convex. 
Head granulated. Prothorax sub-cordate, its sides with deep 
median indentations, forming two large lobes more or less incised | 
along their margins ; disc considerably elevated longitudinally, 
broadly canaliculate, bearing two conspicuous frontal protuber- 
ances. lytra oblong, base tri-sinuate, lateral margins serrate, 
obliquely narrowed posteriorly, apices prolonged, leaving a deep 
sutural notch ; the dorsum raised, with a rather gradual slope 
from the sides, so that these latter are not at all vertical, with a 
row of five tubercular elevations on each side of the median 
groove, the basal laterally compressed and carina-like, those near 
