HuTTON. — On Neiu Zealand Stenopelmatidae. 239 



Pharmacus montanus. 



Fharmacus montamis, Pictet et Saussure, Bull, de la Soc. 



Entomol. Suisse, tome viii., p. 304 (1891). 



Legs very long ; fore and middle femora unarmed below ; 

 hind femora but slightly dilated, armed below with one or two 

 small spines on the inner edge. Fore and middle tibiee, below, 

 with three pairs of small spines; unarmed above. Hind tibiae, 

 above, with sixteen to eighteen spines in each row, the largest 

 apical spur not passing the middle of the first joint of the 

 tarsus. 



Colours. — Black above, testaceous below. 



Length of body, 11mm. ; of pronotum, 3-5mm. ; of hind 

 femur, 10mm. 



Locality. — Mount. Cook, at a height of 7,000ft. (G. E. 

 Mannering.) 



I have seen no specimen. 



Genus Macropathus, Walker. (1869.) 

 Form rather slender, with very long legs. Antennse very 

 long and thick, hairy ; the first joint very large, as broad as 

 long ; the second short and swollen ; the third cylindrical, 

 longer than the first; the others short, cylindrical. Fastigium 

 high, deeply sulcate. Eyes small, narrowly oval, not project- 

 ing so much as the genas ; situated, with the antennae, in a 

 depression ; front very prominent below the antennae. The 

 three last joints of the maxillary palpi about equal. Pro- 

 notum rounded in front, projecting over the head. Sternum 

 narrow. Fore coxae not spined ; the two approximated but 

 not touching. None of the femora with apical spines. Fore 

 and middle tibiae each with a pair of inferior spines, and a 

 single superior one on the posterior side. Hind tibia3 with 

 three pairs of apical spines, of which the superior are the 

 longest and the inferior the shortest, the superior about twice 

 as long as the intermediate, but less than half the length of 

 the first joint of the tarsus. First joint of the hind tarsi elon- 

 gated, longer than the other three together, armed above with 

 several minute spines in addition to the apical pair; the third 

 joint well developed. Subgenital plate of the male triangular, 

 the styles inserted at the base. 



I have had to reconstruct this genus in order that it may 

 be understood. It is very different from Pachyrhamma, but 

 closely allied to Pharmacus. 



Macropathus filifer. Plate XIII. , figs. 20, 20a. 

 Macropatlms filifer, Walker, Cat. Dermaptera Saltatoria in 

 the Brit. Mus., part i., p. 206 (1869). (!) Pachyrhamma 

 edwarclsii, Brunner, Verb. k. k., Zool. and Bot., Gesellsch. 

 in Wien, xxxviii., p. 302 (1888). 



