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equal length, the 5th truncate at the apex, 6th rounded and paler. Legs 

 elongate, finely setose, tibiae straight. 



Antennae nearly as long as the head and thorax, with slender elon- 

 gate pubescence, 3rd joint of about the same length as the 1st or 2nd, 

 4th subquadrate, joints 5-10 become more transverse, 11th conical. 



In some respects like C. diver sa (2690); the body and legs more 

 slender, more uniformly coloured, and the elytra without the dense 

 silky yellow pubescence. 



Length. 4— 4| mm. ; breadth, H mm. 



Taieri, Otago. Three examples from Mr. S. W. Fulton. A speci- 

 men, along with some other species, sent to M. Albert Fauvel, of Caen, 

 many years ago was named as above, but, so far as 1 can ascertain, 

 has remained undescribed. 



3187. Myrmecopora funesta sp. nov. Mt/rmecopora Saulcy, Ann. France, 

 1864. p. 429. 



Subopaque, nigrescent, legs .and antennae fuscous, mandibles rtifes- 

 cent, head, thorax, and elytra with dense, excessively minute, somewhat 

 coriaceous sculpture; pubescence close, but easily brushed off, greyish, 

 rather short and slender, longer and coarser on the abdomen. 



Head about as large as the thorax, subquadrate, posterior angles 

 rounded, with some minute punctures. Clypeus membranous, but not 

 pallid. Labrum transverse, truncate in front. Mandibles thick, cur- 

 vate and acute at the extremity, with a median inner denticle. Eyes 

 moderately large, longitudinally oval, slightly convex. Maxillary palpi 

 long and stout, penultimate joint thickly pubescent, the terminal acicu- 

 late and rather small. Thorax quadrate, rather broader than long, with 

 obliquely rounded anterior angles; the base margined and slightly 

 rounded, with nearly rectangular angles; a more or less evident central 

 groove extends from the apex to the basal fovea. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra nearly twice as long and broad as the thorax, quadrate, their 

 apices obliquely curvate towards the suture ; with fine sutural striae, 

 somewhat depressed behind the scutellum. Hind-body subparallel, rather 

 narrower than elytra at the base, the basal five segments of about equal 

 length, very finely distantly and indistinctly punctured, 6th segment 

 narrower than 5th, 7th obconical, as broad as the 6th at the base. 



Underside opaque, nigrescent, densely and very finely sculptured, 

 thickly covered with slender grey pubescence. 



Antennae elongate, reaching backwards nearly as far as the inter- 

 mediate femora, distinctly pubescent, their basal three joints equally 

 long, joints 4-10 very gradually thickened and abbreviated, the 10th, 

 however, is not perceptibly transverse, 11th oblong-oval, about as long 

 as the obconical 9th and 10th combined. 



In M. Fauvel's description* of the Australian .1/. senilis, to which 

 M. funesta is closely allied, the frontal pubescence is stated to be of a 

 greenish hue, the thorax not at all transverse, and the basal dorsal seg- 

 ments 2-5 subcarinate along the middle. These characters of themselves 

 are enough for specific discrimination. 



Length, 3§ mm. ; breadth, 1mm. 



Broken River, Canterbury. Discovered by Mr. J. H. Lewis, in 

 December, 1907. 



*Hiat. nat. les Staphylinides do 1'Australie et de la Polynesie, 1879, p. 118. 



