OF NEW ZEALAND. 1449 



minent, situated below the lateral margins. Antcnnc? inserted below 

 the sides of the forehead ; first joint stouter than the second, its ex- 

 posed portion hardly longer than it ; joints 3-6 cylindrical, slender, 

 each slightly shorter than its predecessor ; seventh and eighth rather 

 longer than broad ; tenth transverse, evidently larger than the ninth ; 

 eleventh largest ; these terminal joints more distinctly pubescent 

 than the others. Thorax transverse, much narrowed towards the 

 front, its base bisinuate ; the surface on a denuded space is impunc- 

 tate. ScutcUum narrow, triangular. Elytra large, if the obliquely- 

 narrowed posterior portion were removed they would be quadrate ; 

 they are finely and sharply striated, and the discoidal interstices 

 are flat. Front tibice straight along the inside, slender at the base, 

 the tarsi during repose are applied to the front or inner face ; the 

 other tibiae are more abruptly dilated externally near the base, and 

 are broadly grooved along their hinder, or inner, face, for the accom- 

 modation of the tarsi, they are pilose, but along the outer edge they 

 are fringed with distinct outstanding setae. Tarsi simple, with dis- 

 tinct membraneous appendages ; claws well developed. 



Underside black, more or less punctate, with depressed greyish 

 setffi. The cavities for the legs are large and deep. The man- 

 dibles are, apparently, bifid at the extremity. All the tarsi are 

 retractile. 



Congeneric with No. 432, perhaps different from the Curiums 

 zeclandicus of Eedtenbacher, which I have not seen. The squa- 

 mosity is very easily rubbed off. In No. 432 the setse are coarse, 

 with a tendency to form small tufts on the hind-body. 



Length, If ; breadth, 1-^- lines. 



Ashburton. Two examples, found by Mr. W. W. Smith. 



Limnichus (Gen., p. 246). 



2513. L. nigripes, "s- Oval, convex, shining, black; clothed 

 with short, depressed, yellowish, scale-like setae, the clothing of the 

 thorax more slender and hair-like. 



Head narrowed towards the front, finely punctured ; eyes large, 

 quite lateral, rotundate, not prominent. Antenna implanted near the 

 front and inner margin of the eyes. Thorax transverse, its base, in 

 front of the scutellum, slightly emarginate, widely sinuate towards 

 the sides ; these are finely margined, and but little curved, though 

 obviously enough narrowed towards the prominent, acute front 

 angles; its surface is indistinctly punctured, the lateral clothing is of 

 a dark colour. Scutellum elongate, triangular, punctate. Elytra 

 evenly, closely, finely, but distinctly punctured. Legs simple, the 

 tibice fringed with fine grey setae, the tarsi not retractile. 



Underside black, shining, with depressed grey seta?. The ino- 

 stcrnmn medially convex. Front cox<r moderately widely separated. 

 Metastcrnuvi, large, quite truncate between the middle coxae, finely, 

 yet rather more distinctly, punctured than the abdomen. Hind coxae 

 hardly as far apart as the anterior, the intervening process tri- 

 angular. The excavations for the legs moderately deep. 



