HuTTON. — On Neiu Zealand Stenopelmatidae. 225 



Genus Macropathus. 

 All the femora without apical spines. Pore and middle tibiae with 

 an inferior pair of apical spines, and a single superior on the posterior 

 side ; hind tibiae with three pairs of apical spines, of which the superior 

 pair is much the longest, and the inferior pair the shortest. 



Genus Talitbopsis, Bolivar. (1882.) 

 Form small and robust. Vertex depressed ; fastigium 

 narrow, sulcated. Antennae closely approximated at their 

 bases, thick, evenly hairy, three or four times the length of 

 the body ; first joint much broader than the eyes, flattened ; 

 the second shorter, inflated ; the rest cylindrical ; the third 

 rather longer than the second. Eyes pyriform, prominent in 

 the male. Pronotum not more than half the length of the 

 thorax, the inferior margins of the lobes straight. Meta- 

 sternum with a low rouncled elevation in the middle. Legs 

 stout, covered with hair, except the hind femora, which are 

 much dilated and polished ; the hind tibige less than three 

 times the length of the pronotum. Fore coxae spined, the two 

 approaching each other ; hind coxae as far apart as the middle 

 ones. Femora without apical spines, or with a short stout 

 one on the inner side. Fore tibiae with a pair of inferior 

 apical spines, and others below ; middle tibiae with a pair of 

 inferior and a single superior apical spine, and others below ; 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of apical spurs, both coloured and 

 short, but the superior rather longer than the inferior pair ; 

 below they are without spines. First and second joints of 

 the hind tarsi armed with a pair of strong spines at the 

 apices ; third joint very short ; the fourth about equal to the 

 other three together. Supra-anal plate with a semicircular 

 notch at the apex. Cerci moderate, slender, depressed. Sub- 

 genital plate in the male rather transverse, inflated, trilobed, 

 the styles very short. Subgeuital plate in the female with 

 three angular notches on the posterior margin. Ovipositor 

 compressed, acuminate. 



Locality. — New Zealand only. 



The apical spines on the hind tibiae have very few hairs. 



Talitropsis sedilotti. Plate XII., figs. 7, 7a. 

 Talitropsis sedilotti, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (G), ii., 



p. 462 (1882). Talitropis sedilloti, Brunner, Mou. Stenop., 



p. 312, fig. 36 (1888). 



Inferior margins of the pronotum slightly descending 

 posteriorly ; the posterior angles nearly rectangular. The 

 lobes of the mesonotum and metanotum descend posteriorly 

 more rapidly. Middle and hind femora with a small apical 

 spine ; fore femora without any ; hind femora, below, with two 

 or three small spines on the inner and one to three on the 

 outer edge. Fore tibiae, below, with two pairs of spines. 

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