1414 COLEOPTERA 



rounded and narrowed to^Yards the extremity ; its three basal seg- 

 ments nearly equal. 



AntenncB as long as the head and thorax ; first joint red, cylindric, 

 one-third longer than second ; joints 3-8 slender, nearly bead-like, 

 third, however, longer than broad, fifth slightly larger than the con- 

 tiguous ones ; ninth bead-like, more than twice the size of the eighth, 

 scarcely longer than it is broad ; tenth rather broader than long, 

 larger than the ninth ; eleventh large, very much acuminate. 



Underside shining, reddish, pubescent ; the head with elongate 

 slender yellow hairs ; on the sides of the prosternum the hairs are 

 short and dense. 



Length, f ; breadth, nearly J line. 



Maketu, Hunua Eange. Four examples, without noticeable 

 sexual disparities. 



Pselaphus (Gen., p. 122). 



2462. P. cavelli, '^--s- Elongate, narrowed anteriorly, mode- 

 rately convex, pubescent, shining, chestnut-red, tarsi and palpi 

 fulvous. 



Head subovate, indistinctly punctate, with fine golden hairs ; the 

 interantennal channel prolonged to behind the eyes, deep and 

 wide behind, subtriangular ; vertex convex, narrowed posteriorly so 

 as to form a sort of broad neck, which is longitudinally grooved. 

 Eyes prominent, with coarse facets. Antemite red, elongate, the 

 basal two joints cylindric, the second the shorter ; 3-8 longer than 

 broad, nearly similar, the third and eighth rather stouter than the 

 others ; ninth and tenth larger than the eighth ; eleventh largest, 

 acuminate. Palpi (maxillary) elongate, second joint a little thick- 

 ened at the base, quite clavate at the apex ; third short ; fourth as 

 long as the other three conjointly, incrassate at the base, slender 

 beyond it, its club about one-fourth of the entire length. Thorax 

 longer than broad, much narrowed behind and in front, smooth, 

 with indistinct greyish hairs. Elytra much longer than the thorax, 

 narrowed towards the shoulders ; each elytron with a sutural stria, 

 which becomes fovea-like at the base ; apices feebly sinuate, they 

 bear short, depressed, brassy hairs, disposed in series. Hind-body 

 broader than the elytra, its basal segment large, slightly convex, 

 fringed at the base, clothed elsewhere with short, depressed, yellow 

 hairs ; remaining segments deilexed. Legs long, the femora slender 

 at the base, quite clavate near the middle ; the tibiae a little bent, 

 dilated and densely pubescent near the extremity. 



Underside rufescent, the front of the anterior coxge, the sides of 

 the mesosternum, and a broad transverse space at the base of the 

 abdomen, covered with greyish, spongy pubescence; the meso- 

 sternum subcarinate along the centre ; the metasternum broadly 

 convex. 



Much more slender than P. mcliiisculus, with an obvious neck, 

 &c. P. citimus, the only other near ally, is at once differentiated by 

 its simple thighs. 



Length, 1 ; breadth, nearly f line. 



