OF NEW ZEALAND. 87 



Auteuiise tawny, Protliorax with a blackish band on the fore border 

 and another on the hind border. Mesothorax, metathorax, and 

 dorsal segments of the abdomen with a blackish band on each hind 

 border. Ovidnct tawny^ piceous towards the tip. Femora with two 

 brown irregular bands and with a more determinate blackish apical 

 band ; fore tibite with two blackish bands, pale yellow towards the 

 tips ; middle tibia? Avith two blackish bands_, and with an indeterminate 

 piceous band nearer the tip ; hind tibise piceouSj testaceous beneath 

 towards the tips ; fore tarsi pale yellow. 



Length of the body, 12 lines. 



In caves (H. Drew, Esq.). 



Genus-HADEN(ECUS. 

 Scudder. 



Body small and slender ; head similar to Ceuthophilus : antennae 

 very long and slender, exceeding the length of the body many times ; 

 basal joints much as in Ceuthophilus, except that the second is broader, 

 and the fourth is more than half the length of the third ; eyes as in 

 Ceuthophilus. Maxillary palpi very long and slender ; first joint short ; 

 second fully twice as long as first ; third quite long, fully equalling 

 twice the length of the second ; fourth nearly as long as the third, 

 slender at the base, thickened towards the tip ; fifth longer than third, 

 of a similar form to the fourth, but more incrassated at the tip, com- 

 pressed laterally, slightly curved, and split at the under-side only at 

 the tip. Tubercle of the vertex very small, pointed, bilobed. Epi- 

 mera of the nieso- and metathorax not covered by the sides of the 

 meso- and metanotum ; wings wanting ; metasternum with a short 

 sharp spine. Legs remarkably long and slender ; coxse carinated exter- 

 nally, the first pair having the carina elevated in the middle to a 

 point ; femora without spines ; hind femora turned inwards and a 

 little swollen at the Ijase, extending over only the basal half; under 

 surface delicately channelled ; the two anterior tibia? are slightly 

 longer than their corresponding femora ; tarsi much compressed 

 laterally. Anal cerci long and slender ; ovipositor long and slightly 

 cnsiform, rounded off very gradually at the extremity to a delicate 

 point. 



H. EDWARDSii. Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., XII,, /;. 408 



(1869). 



Body uniform brownish-fuscous ; front pale fuscous ; palpi, tarsi, 



and apical third of tibise pale ; antennaj brownish-fuscoiis. Length 



of pronotum, 6 mm. ; of thoracic nota, together 11'5 mm. ; of antenna?, 



