NEW ZEALAND COSSONID/. 499 
destitute of front angles, so that the margins form an uninter- 
rupted curve from one posterior angle to the other. 
1448. Holopsis nigellus, n. sp.—Convex, very broadly oval, 
nude, shining, blackish, the thoracic margins and humeral angles 
generally pale testaceous, legs fusco-testaceous. 
ffead not immersed, invisible from above. Pronotum broader 
than long, finely marginated, its base sinuously rounded, the 
sides and front forming a regular curve, its surface minutely and 
remotely punctured. Scutellum broadly triangular. Flytra with 
fine side rims, slightly wider than the thorax, their sculpture fine 
and shallow. Legs robust, bearing fine pallid hairs. Underside 
brownish ; e¢asternum large, scored with exceedingly fine irre- 
gular lines ; abdomen truncate between the coxe, minutely reti- 
culated, segments 2-4 short, each with a row of pale hairs, 5th 
more pubescent. Axzenuce yellow, slender. Club three-jointed. 
Claws dentate at base. 
Length, 34 ; breadth, % line. 
Hab. North Island. Not uncommon. 
1449. Holopsis pallidus, n. sp.—Shining, testaceous, the middle 
of the thorax darker, legs and antennze pale yellow, seemingly 
destitute of pubescence, convex, broadly oval. Underside yel- 
lowish. Resembles ZH. xzgellus. 
Length, 5 ; breadth, % line. 
One example, Northcote, Waitemata Harbour. 
1450. Holopsis lawsont, n. sp.—Glossy, nude, somewhat rufes- 
cent, thoracic disc brown, its margins testaceous ; convex, 
broadly oval. 
Prothorax minutely and distantly punctured. Ldlytra almost 
similarly sculptured. 
The insect is rather smaller and narrower than the two pre- 
ceding species, and the elytra are more distinctly punctated. 
Length, quite % ; breadth, 36 line. 
I found this species at Whangarei Heads, and Mr. Thomas 
Lawson recently gave me a specimen labelled by the late G. R. 
Crotch, M.A., Coccinella lawsoni. I have retained the specific 
appellation, but the insect has little in common with Coccinella. 
NOTE.—Page 650, genus Cranophorus, last line, should be 
“tarsi with simple claws,” not single. 
