FARONINl. 287 



Underside scantily pubescent. Head with an interocular furrow. 

 Ventral segments 2 to 4 slightly increase, 5th as long as 4th, 6th shorter, 

 narrower and truncate behind, 7th short, obtusely triangular. 



This belongs to Section V, but differs from every species in it. When 

 examined from behind, the occipital foveae appear almost confluent with 

 the frontal channel, and thus approach the furcate form of Kaff ray's 

 S. pimctulata. The distinct basal punctures near the sutural striae and 

 the outer punctures or additional striae are somewhat similar to those of 

 Raffray's S. frontalis, but in his species these striae are situated near the 

 middle of each side. These together are good distinguishing characters. 



Var. (J. Elytra rather longer, without basal punctures near the sutural 

 striae, the hind portion of intrahumeral impressions shorter. Howick. 



rj*. Length, 2 mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Hunua Range, Clevedon. Unique; one of my own captures; in it the 

 6th ventral segment is nearly nude. 



3702. Sagola longipes sp. -nov. 



Subdepressed, elongate, of interrupted outline, nitid, distantly and 

 minutely punctate ; light chestnut-red, elytra and legs somewhat fulvescent, 

 palpi and tarsi yellow ; very thinly clothed with rather short, decumbent, 

 greyish pubescence. 



Head almost as broad as thorax, gradually narrowed anteriorly, genae 

 not narrowed, with rounded hind angles ; frontal channel only moderatelv 

 broad and deep, hardly extending as far as the back of the eyes, nar- 

 rowed between the somewhat flattened tubercles, occipital foveae elongate. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, widest and strongly rounded before the 

 middle; considerably narrowed behind, obliquely so in front, where it is 

 about half the width of the occiput ; basal fossa deep and subrotundate, 

 lateral foveae of similar form, hardly attaining the middle, the base dis- 

 tinctly bipunctate. Elytra of equal length and breadth, a third longer 

 than thorax, widest and slightly rounded behind, distinctly narrowed before 

 the middle ; sutural striae entire, punctiforra at base, intrahumeral im- 

 pressions short, consisting of a pair of punctures, the posterior the larger. 

 Hind-body not quite as broad as elytra at the base, nearly double their 

 length, basal three segments horizontal, the 1st shorter than 2nd or .3rd, 

 terminal ones much narrowed. 



Legs rather elongate, moderately slender, tibiae only slightly expanded 

 below the middle, but becoming slender at the extremity. 



Antennae a third longer than head and thorax, a little thickened 

 apically ; basal joint red, its length fully twice the breadth, 2nd half as long, 

 3rd moderately small, rather longer than broad ; 4th and 5th oblong, 6-8 

 very slightly shorter and broader, 9th and 10th transversely quadrate, the 

 terminal conical, longer than the penultimate. 



Ventral segments 2 to 4 evidently increase, 5th slightly longer than 4th. 

 much narrow^ed apically, 6th shorter and narrower, obtusely triangular. 



Of irregular contour, the antennae, legs, and hind-body rather elongate, 

 and differing otherwise from the species composing .Section V. S. osculans, 

 1576, is a male, it has a broader head with less obtuse angles, its frontal 

 channel is deeper but tapers behind, the thorax is gradually narrowed towards 

 the base. In S. fulva, 1881, the head is more like that of 1576. S. recti-pes, 

 1878, has the head gradually narrowed in front of the eves, as in S. lonr/ipes, 

 but it is not as broad, and its elytra are oblong, &c. These are the nearest 

 species in my collection. 



