OF NEW ZEALAND. 825 



S^ . Two basal articulations of the anterior tarsi produced in- 

 wardly. 



Allied to B. eustictum, differing from it in having the elytral 

 sculpture finer and their interstices impunctate; the sutural striae 

 attain the apices, and are there recurved, the marginal being sunk 

 in a broad groove behind ; an oblique space extending from the 

 middle of the side to the apex is almost smooth. The head and 

 thorax are broader, the latter being much less curved laterally. 



(? . Length, if lines ; breadth, -f. 



Mr. T. F. Cheeseman brought me a specimen from the Wanga- 

 peka, Nelson. 



Group— PERICALID-ffi. 

 Scopodes (p- 67). 



1474- S. levistriatus, n.s. Glabrous, deep glossy-black, 

 smooth, moderately narrow, widest behind, subdepressed, legs and 

 antennffi black. 



Head obsoletely strigose ; eyes large and prominent. Protliorax 

 cordate, the sides angulated, but not acutely, before the middle, 

 from thence obliquely rounded anteriorly, the posterior narrowing 

 not sinuous ; the lateral rims are narrow but distinct behind the 

 middle, and, instead of forming the angles, are bent inwardly and 

 become quite obsolete near the centre of the base ; its surface is 

 finely and irregularly strigose, the median groove and apical impres- 

 sion are tolerably well marked, and the base transversely depressed. 

 Elytra a good deal distended behind, their shoulders narrow and 

 rounded, and the apices indi\adually obliquely truncated ; their striae 

 are quite superficial, often quite obsolete, and the three foveas on 

 each elytron rather small. 



The species can be easily identified, being allied to S. IcBvigatus, 

 but the thorax is narrower, cordiform, and quite perceptibly angu- 

 lated laterally before the middle, the posterior angles are obsolete, 

 and the rims narrow and not reflexed. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, nearly f. 



Habitat, Wangapeka Valley, Nelson. Mr. T. F. Cheeseman 

 brought me one specimen, minus a leg. 



Group— PSELAPHID-ffi. 



Startes. 



Nov. gen. 



Maxillary ^^a/^ji robust, longer than head, basal joint minute, 

 second elongate and gradually incrassated, third small, fourth elon- 

 gate, slightly longer than second, ovate. Head produced anteriorly 

 so as to form a quadrate muzzle, narrowed behind. Antenna distant 

 from each other, their tubercles not prominent. Protliorax cordi- 

 form. Elytra considerably narrowed towards the base. Basal 

 segment of abdomen two-thirds the length of elytra, second shorter, 

 the others deflexed, all marginated. Antenncs ii -articulate. Claws 

 single. 



The insect for which this genus is formed resembles a Pselaphus, 



