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Rh 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:—





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