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one-third of an inch in length, of a reddish colour, relieved by bright narrow stripes. I have sent some home to be named, together with a considerable number of the smaller species, and hope to be permitted on some future occasion to furnish more reliable information respecting them, if not anticipated by other gentlemen more competent to deal with the subject; but, as the principal aim in writing this paper has been to induce gentlemen more conversant with this branch of natural science to contribute to our knowledge, it is most probable that I will not find it necessary to trouble the members of the Institute with further remarks.

I now deposit in the Museum specimens of the undermentioned beetles:—

No.  1, Cicindella tuberculata
 2, {{{1}}} latecincta
 3, {{{1}}} wakefieldi
 4, {{{1}}} feredayi
 5, Feronia antartica
 6, {{{1}}} n. sp.
 7, Colymbetes rufimanus
 8, Staphylinus oculatus
 9, Histeridæ (species?)
10, Necrobia rufipes
11, Lissotes reticulatus
12, Cerathognathus helotoides
13, Lucanidaæ (species?)
14, Odontria striata
15, Rhisotrogus zealandicus
16, Stethaspis suturalis
17, Pyronota festiva
18, Elater zealandicus
19, Elater olivacens
20, {{{1}}} lineicollis
21, Nacerdes lineatus
22, Tanychilus metallicus
23, Stephanorhynchus, n. sp.
24, Scolopterus bidens
25, {{{1}}} pencillatus
26, Navomorpha lineataum
27, {{{1}}} acutipennis
28, Tetroreo cilipes
29, Calliprason sinclairi
30, Hexatricha pulverulenta
31, Rylotoles griseus
32, Prioscelida tenebrionides
33, Cilibe phosphugoides
34, Chærodes trachyscelides
35, Mordella antartica
36, Coccinella tasmanii




Art. XXXIII.—Remarks on the Pselaphidæ (Coleoptera) of New Zealand.

By Captain Brown.

[Read before the Auckland Institute, 16th August, 1875.]

On referring to Captain Hutton's Catalogue of the New Zealand Insecta, as published in the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," under date the 11th November, 1873, it will be observed that no mention is made of this group of the Pseudotrimera, most probably because of its having been unknown to our entomologists at the time.

As the omission of an entire group of Beetles from our only available list, seems to me a matter of importance, I will endeavour to remedy the