280 COT,i:C)I'IKRA. 



Antennae shorter than the head and thorax, basal 4 joints of nearly 

 equal length, 10th slightly longer than broad, the terminal still longer and 

 oviform. 



The broadly expanded anterior tarsi and flavescent wing-cases distinguish 

 this species from Q. enodis, 207, and the other species, 208 and 206, belonging 

 to Section VII. 



(5*. Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, IJ mm. 



Pudding Hill, near Methven. A single male caught by Mr. T. Hall on 

 the 4th May, 1912. 



ixroup Omahdae. 



3693. Ischnoderus curtipennis sp. nov. Ischnodenis F'auvel. Hist. Nat. 

 Nouv. Caledon., Caen, 1867. p. 46. 



Elongate, parallel, subdepressed, nitid ; light castaneo-rufous, legs, 

 antennae, and palpi somewhat flavescent ; pubescence scanty, greyish, 

 short, slender, and suberect, but longer and more conspicuous on the 

 abdomen. 



Head large, obcordate, its obtuse hind angles slightly wider than the 

 thorax, very gradually narrowed towards the minute eyes, more narrowed 

 in front, base medially emarginate, the forehead not quite truncate, being 

 a little oblique towards the sides ; it is moderately coarsely and irregularly 

 but not closely punctate, with a pair of distinct elongate foveae behind, 

 the space between these, like the bi-impressed forehead, is almost smooth. 

 Neck short, about half the width of the occiput. Thorax a third broader 

 than long, widest and slightly curved before the middle, gently narrowed 

 towards the rectangular posterior angles, its sides distinctly margined and 

 slightly explanate, base and apex truncate ; its punctation similar to that 

 of the head, the disc broadly, longitudinally, but not deeply bi-impressed, 

 the interval smooth. Elytra very short, scarcely longer than thorax, gently 

 narrowed anteriorly, apices with rounded angles and oblique towards the 

 suture ; they are coarsely, irregularly, and distantly punctured, and without 

 sutural striae. Hind-body elongate, nearly half the entire length, indis- 

 tinctly sculptured, with broad margins, basal segment usually short, terminal 

 small, subtriangular, and yellowish, the intermediate ones about equal. 



Tibiae slightly expanded towards the extremity, finely setose. Tarsi 

 slender, basal joints of the posterior short and compact, only 3 visible above, 

 and together hardly any longer than the claws, the terminal elongate. 



Antennae rather shorter than head and thorax, with slender outstanding 

 setae ; basal joint pyriform, very thin at the base, 2nd oviform, evidently 

 smaller than the basal, the next as long as the 2nd but more slender and 

 gradually narrowed towards its base, 4th and r)th small and moniliform, 

 joints 6-10 abruptly broader, somewhat laxly articulated, 8-10 strongly 

 transverse, terminal conical, not quite as long as preceding two combined. 



The minute eyes, obsolete ocelli, indefinite scutellum, and abbreviated 

 elytra are its most obvious characteristics ; these are indications of generic 

 differentiation. The 6th ventral segment of the male is short and without 

 incision, the 7th narrow and subconcave. The head of the female is rather 

 less dilated than that of the other sex. 



o. Length. 2 mm. ; breadth, nearly .1 !iiiii. 



Pudding Hill, near Methven. One female found amongst dead leaves 

 on the ground, at a height of 3,000 ft., on the 13th April, 1913, by Messrs. 

 T. Hall and L. Burrows ; the other sex on the 28tli November, 1912. 



