Broun. — New Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 411 



3210. Vidamus calcaratus sp. nov. Vidamus Raffray. 



Robust, moderately convex, nitid; rufous; legs, antennae, and palpi 

 fulvescent; clothed with slender erect yellowish-grey pubescence, and also 

 with a few elongate erect hairs. 



Head large, as broad as thorax, rounded near the base, with a pair 

 of large basal fossae which are prolonged as broad channels and unite 

 in front ; antennal tubercles prominent, confluent on the forehead. Eyes 

 convex, rather small. Thorax convex, widest near the front, rounded 

 there, gradually narrowed backwards; with a large transversal depres- 

 sion behind the middle, and a large elongate fovea at each side, these 

 are without any connecting grooves, there is no discoidal sulcus along 

 the middle, near the basal margin it is tripunctate. Elytra rather 

 broader than thorax at the base, nearly twice its length, gradually 

 widened posteriorly, apices truncate; sutural striae deep, intrahumeral 

 impression deep near the base, becoming narrow and shallow towards 

 the middle; each elytron quadripunetate at the base. Hind-body much 

 shorter than elytra, its basal three segments of about equal length, the 

 others deflexed. 



Legs elongate; femora stout, the middle pair slightly arched above 

 and thicker than the others; intermediate tibae shorter and stouter than 

 the posterior, with a thick spiniform process near the inner extremity. 



Antennae finely and sparsely pubescent; basal two joints cylindric, 

 the 1st rather longer and thicker than the 2nd; 3rd as long as 2nd, 

 more slender, gently narrowed towards its base; 4th and 5th equal, 

 evidently longer than broad; 6th and 7th differ but little from the pre- 

 ceding paii-; 8th rather smaller than adjacent ones; 9th slightly broader 

 and longer than its predecessor, but not as broad as the moniliform 10th; 

 the terminal largest, ovate; the club therefore is not distinctly tri- 

 articulate. 



In Sharp's Euplectus convexus (254) the posterior tibiae are sub- 

 angulate inwardly at the middle. In my V. spinipes (3048) the legs are 

 less robust, and the intermediate tibiae have the spine on each placed 

 between the middle and extremity. 



J. Length, 2A mm. ; breadth, nearly 1mm. 



Makatote. A single male found in leaf-mould collected for me by 

 Mr. W. J. Guinness in February, 1910. 



3211. Vidamus incertus Reitter. Euplectus, Verh. d. naturf. ver. Brunn.. 



vol. 18, p. 8. 



Subdepressed, fusco-testaceous, rather shining. 



Head not at all narrower than thorax, smooth, frontal furrows 

 narrowed, joined in front, posterior fovae deeply impressed. Thorax 

 as long as broad, without discoidal groove. Elytra broader and H 

 times longer than thorax, very finely punctulated, sutural striae entire, 

 the intrahumeral foveiform. 



Male. — Femora moderately incrassate. Metasternum slightly foveate 

 behind. 



Similar to Euplectus karsteni in size and form. Head smooth, with 

 convergent frontal furrows. 



Length, 1-1" 1 mm. 



Greymouth. Mr. R. Helms. 



