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last mentioned hue form two protuberant crests on the summit 
of the posterior declivity. Zegs long and stout, densely. clothed 
in the same way as the body. 
The presence of the scutellum allies it to A. intutus, but there 
the likeness ends. If the shoulders were not oblique, the hind- 
body would be perfectly triangular. 
Length (rost. excl.), 1% ; breadth, 34 line. 
The ] pair I possess were sent from the vicinity of Port Nichol- 
son by Mr. Stewart-Sandager. 
1428. Acalles cinereus, n. sp.—Opaque, piceous, densely clothed 
with depressed grayish and obscure testaceous scales inter- 
mingled with whitish sete ; antenne and tarsi pitchy-red ; only 
moderately convex, broadly sub-ovate. 
Rostrum arched, sub-parallel, as long as thorax, rugosely 
punctate. Prothovax as long as broad, contracted in front, sides 
but little rounded, feebly sinuated and depressed at the base, 
with ocular lobes closely punctured. lytva a little broader 
than thorax, with nearly straight sides, gradually narrowed 
and deflexed behind; disc not much elevated, with rows of 
coarse, shallow, distant punctures ; scutellar region depressed, 
with four small granules near that part. JZegs robust, scaly, the 
extremity of the tibiz ciliated with golden hairs. Underside 
densely punctate and squamose. Mesosternal margins of the 
pectoral canal elevated. Antenne inserted before the middle, 2nd 
joint of funiculus quite as long as the Ist. 
An aberrant form. 
Length (rost. excl.) 2% ; breadth, 1% line. 
I took my specimen off a Leptosperymum at Whangarei Heads. 
1429. Tychanus scahiosus, n.sp.—Sub-oblong, moderately convex, 
squamose ; rufo-fuscous variegated with black, antenne and tarsi 
red. 
Rostvum as long as thotax, slightly dilated behind, blackish, 
punctured in lines anteriorly, squamose behind. Scape short, 
rather slender ; basal joint of funiculus stout, triangular, 2nd. lon- 
ger and more slender, 7th transversal ; club oval. Pvrothovax trans- 
verse, contracted in front, nearly level above, its coarse puncta- 
tion filled with fuscous scales, long upright pale brown scales 
are distributed over the sides and apex and from two median 
crests. lytva sub-quadrate, narrowed and depressed posteriorly, 
moderately elevated near the middle, uneven, sub-striate ; with 
two short rows of punctures on each. side of the suture at the 
base, and some ill-defined tubercular elevations elsewhere ; most 
of their surface reddish, but with the shoulders, two basal stripes. 
and on each a curved ante-apical streak blackish ; the flat scales 
occupy most of their surface, the pale erect ones the raised parts. 
Legs densely squamose, thighs dentate. 
Like T. ferrugatus in outline, but of much rougher aspect. 
Length (rost. excl.), 2; breadth, 1 line. 
Described from one example communicated by Mr. P. Stewart- 
Sandager, Wellington. ng 
