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transverse band near the middle... .” It is considered by the present author that Broun 
had in fact described the east coast species from Marsden Pt. specimens. Consequently 
both Broun’s 1880 and Horn’s 1926 descriptions of the elytral marks were based on 
specimens of the same species. The taxonomic implications of these findings should be 
considered elsewhere. 
CONCLUSION 
Examination of coastal tiger beetle specimens of known locality from northern 
North I coasts, shows that two species can be easily recognised and separated by the 
colour and colour pattern of the elytra. 
One variable species, currently known as Neocicindela perhispida (Broun, 1880), 
occurs on sand-dunes from Kawhia up the west coast and around the northern coast 
to the far northern east coast as far south as Karikari Pen. The other species, which has 
little variation and is currently known as Neocicindela brevilunata (Horn, 1926), 
occurs on sand-dunes along the east coast beaches south of the Whangarei Hbr. from 
Marsden Pt. to Pakiri. 
However, examination of specimens in early collections (which are largely not 
localised or dated, or which are labelled [or recorded] in error) together with original 
descriptions of the two species concerned indicates that the taxonomic situation is not 
clear and that the species need to be re-affirmed. 
Acknowledgements For assistance and access to specimens I wish to acknowledge Dr Scott 
Miller (Chairman) and Dr Allan Samuelson, Department of Entomology, Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Dr Laurence Mound (Keeper) and Dr Peter Barnard, and other 
staff, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History), London, England; 
Professor Claude Caussanel (Directeur), Dr Jean Menier and Dr Thierry Deuve, Laboratoire 
d’Entomologie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Dr Z. Zerche, 
Abteilung Taxonomie der Insekten, Institut fiir Pflanzenschutzforschung, Eberswalde, 
Deutschen Demokratischen Republik; and in New Zealand, Dr Beverley Holloway and Dr 
Robin Craw, Entomology Division, D.S.I.R., Auckland; Mr Bruce Young (Director), 
Northland Regional Museum, Whangarei. 
In Auckland Museum, Rosemary Gilbert has given continuing skilled technical assistance 
both in the field and in the laboratory. I am indebted to Walter Cernohorsky and Sabine Weik 
for German translations, to Mr R.B. Sibson for Latin translation and to Virginia Bennett for 
specimen photographs. 
I wish to thank Mrand Mrs R. (Anne and Roger) Kempthorne of Pukenui in the far north 
for accommodation during many field trips and for local information. Mr B.B. Given has also 
supplied information. 
A Prince and Princess of Wales Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand and a 
grant from the Council of the Auckland Institute and Museum provided funds for overseas 
travel and research in 1987. 
