152 C0I-E0PTK1!A. 



aiul k'«s rounded at tlir \):\sv, 4tli smallei- tlinii -'^rd, emarofinati' in front; 

 the middle pair of nearly similar struct ui-e. 



This, no doubt, is most neai'ly related to 95, L. lutiiiKiinis Bates, but 

 it is lonpei'. There is no allusion to the prominent eyes in his descrip- 

 tion, but he stated that it lias a short scutcUar sti-iole " between the 1st 

 and 2nd sti'iae " on each elytron. In the present species the sutural 

 striae do not attain the base, but at that point, and nearer to the sut\ii-e, 

 there is a pair of scutellar striae. The 2nd stria of each, at the base, 

 has a very distinct puncture, l)ut there is no trace of a scutellar striole 

 between it and the sutural stria. 



S. Length, 5^ nmi. ; breadth, 2^ nan. 



Mount Hutt, near Methven. Described from a specimen found I)v 

 Mr. T. Hall, in December, 1911, at a height of about 3,500 ft. 



Ohs. — The eyes are more prominent than those of L. fuliginosus, 98^ 

 which, perhaps, is near to /v. latimanus Bates, Avho, as stated by 

 Dr. Sharp (p. 1000, Man. N.Z. Colept.), named specimens found by me 

 at Tairua as his L. lafimauHi^. Subsequently my Tairua specimens were 

 described by Dr. Sharp as a new species, 1794, /.. marginatus. As Bates 

 considered this latter species to be merely a variety of his L. latimaniis, 

 my 98 and //. iticertiis are evidently very different in some respects. 



Group Bembidiidai::. 



3513. Anillus marginatus sp. nov. Anillus Jacqueliu Duval, Lacord.^ 

 Hist, des Ins. Col., tom. 1, p. 380. 



Subdepressed, nitid, with dense, minute, subgranular sculpture; 

 fulvescent, legs and antennae pale testaceous; bearing numerous dis- 

 tinct, erect, greyish setae, and also some scattered elongate ones. 



Head slightly convex, oblong, as long as the thorax, a little narrowed 

 and finely margined anteriorly; bi'oadly but not deeply bisulcate; 

 labi-um transverse, entire. Eyes invisible. Thoi^ix cordate, its length 

 and l)readth about equal, base and apex truncate, gradually narrowed 

 behind the middle; lateral margins well developed but not forming 

 definite posterior angles, these, however, are not broadly rouiuled; the 

 disc with some fine scattered punctures, median groove moderately im- 

 pressed, not reaching the front, owing to a slight elevation there, there 

 are no basal fovae, but there is an obsolete curvate impression near the 

 middle of the base. Elytra twice as long as the thorax, evidently broader 

 than it is at the base, with oblique rounded shoulders, their sides dis- 

 tinctly margined and nearly straight, gently narrowed posteriorly, 

 apices very broadly rounded and leaving the broad pygidium uncovered ; 

 the dorsum is flat, w-ithout striae or other impi-essions, but on the middle 

 of the base of each elytron there is a small granule. 



Legs setigerous, moderately elongate; anterior tibiae stout, consider- 

 ably bent near the extremity, deeply emai-ginate inwardly below the 

 middle; joints 2-4 of the corres])onding tarsi small and cordifoim, the 

 5th as long as the basal, with slendei- claws. 



Antennae stout, reaching backwards to the thoracic base, with 

 slender setae; basal two joints thick and of about tlie same length, .'ird 

 nearly as long as the 2nd, somewhat abruptly contracted near the base; 

 joints 4—10 subglobular and nearly e(iual, tlu' teiniinal conical, not as 

 long as the ])receding two combined. 



In A. /xiJIithis, 1644, and A. phi/llohius, 2G78, the base of the thorax 

 is arcuate-emargiiiate. Iti Sliarp's ('?7/e//»w siihcaecmii, ISll, tlie thorax 



