194 [February, 



Many examples from Capt. Broun. 



Belongs to the same group as B. ehariJe and maorinum, a group 

 of PerypJius apparently peculiar to New Zealand, having a cordiform 

 thorax not at all dilated at the posterior angles, with a narrow, simple 

 fovea close to the angle, and with setiform punctures on the 5th, as 

 well as on the 3rd, elytral interstice. The head and thorax in B. 

 Tairuense are small in comparison with the elytra, and quite destitute 

 of punctuation ; the frontal foveae, as in the allied New Zealand species, 

 are broad and deep ; the eyes only moderately prominent. The elytra 

 are elongate-oblong-ovate, rather depressed, and with rather strongly 

 impressed and closely punctured striae, the interstices being plane ; 

 the first and second striae converge at the base into a depression, the 

 outer striae do not reach the base, and leave a smooth space near the 

 shoulder ; striae 2 — 7 become very faint near the apex. 



The species is closely allied to B. maorimcm, from Christchurch, 

 and it wonld be difficult in a description to make their difference clear, 

 though their general aspect is very distinct ; B. maorinum being 

 broader, more brightly aeneous ; the elytra much broader, the striae 

 less impressed, &c. 



Bembidiijm parviceps, 71. sp. 



Oracile, modice convexum, nigrum, vix CBnescens, politum, palpis, pedihus anten- 

 nisque fusco-piceis, Ms articulo hasali rufo; capite farvo,foveisfrontalihus latis, 

 profundis ; thorace cordato, angulis posiicis hand prominentibus ; elytris grosse 

 striato-punctatis, striis (l»'o excepta) longe ante apicem suhito evanescentihus. 



Long. 2 lin. 

 Tairua, near Auckland (Capt. Broun). 



Belongs to none of the European sections of Benibidmm, but 

 nearest allied perhaps to Beryplms. The frontal furrows (broad and deep, 

 without marginal ridges) and the form of the thorax (with contracted 

 hind angles and simple fovea) are the same as in the Peryphus maor- 

 inum group ; but the 5th elytral interstice has no setif erous punctures. 

 The head is small, and the eyes arc not so prominent as usual in Bem- 

 hidiuvi. The thorax is also small, and impunctate ; it is cordate, 

 gradually narrowed behind until near the base, and then its sides are 

 straight, without the slightest projection of the posterior angles, which 

 are indeed scarcely rectangular ; the basal fovea is narrow, and lies close 

 to the margiual rim. The elytra are elongate-oval, coarsely punctured 

 in slightly impressed rows ; the punctures and striae abruptly ceasing 

 at about two-thirds the length, except the sutural and marginal striae j 

 the sutui'al stria is, as usual, a little recurved at the apex, and the 

 hook thus formed is distinctly separated by a smooth ridge from the 

 recnrvcd manrinal stria. • 



