290 OOLEOPTEIU. 



finely i)unctate near tlie base, with a puncture aUmgside eacli. intra- 

 luuneral impressions tripunetate, hardly rearliino; the middle, their front 

 mar<nn sexpunctate. Hind-body rather longer than elytra, basal segment 

 rather shorter than 2nd or 3rd, with minute (h-pi'essed Ijrassy scales, the 

 terminal very narrow. 



Legs moderately elongate, tibiae feebly arched externally. 



Antennae as long as head and thorax, basal joint red, not twice the length 

 of the suboviform 2nd, 3rd small and subglobular, 4th oviform, joints 5-8 

 slightly increase in width, narrowed in front ; 9th and 10th distinctly broader, 

 transverse, 11th conical, not as long as preceding two together. 



Underside finely punctate, with suberect greyish pubescence. Head with 

 a transverse groove midway between the mentum and eyes and a deep 

 central groove behind. Ventral segments 2-4 normal, 5th nearly as long 

 as 4th, 6th .short, truncate behind; 7th much longer, rather broad, rounded 

 behind, slightly concave, with a flat almost semicircular basal lamina 

 occupying about half of its whole area. 



Distinguishable by its bright-fulvous elytra, tripunctate intrahumeral 

 impressions, and by the peculiar lamina within the terminal ventral segment. 

 The head is rather narrower than in the older members of Section V, and the 

 thorax being almost as much oviform as cordate it may at present be located 

 near S. spinifer, 2723, in Section XIV. 

 (^. Length, 2i mm. ; breadth, | mm. 



Tairua, Auckland. December, 1874 ; one found on the lower side of a 

 log. 



370(). Sagola bifida sp. nov. 



Shining, subdepressed, elongate, of irregular outline, finely and distantly 

 punctate ; light chestnut-red, elytra and legs flavescent ; sparingly clotlied 

 with elongate, suberect, pale pubescence and upright setae. 



Head, including the rather prominent eyes, almost as broad as thorax, 

 gradually curvedly narrowed behind, its angles obsolete ; antennal tubercles 

 distinctly elevated, slightly separated in front; frontal channel deep, widest 

 in front, verv narrow on reaching the well-marked, somewhat elongated 

 occipital foveae. Thorax of equal length and breadth, rounded and widest 

 before the middle, considerably narrowed behind ; basal fossa deep and 

 subrotundate, lateral foveae deep and attaining the middle, base evidently 

 bipunctate. Elytra short, rather broader than long, a good deal narrowed 

 towards the base ; sutural striae deeper at the base than behind, intra- 

 humeral impressions entire, deep, reaching the middle but not touching the 

 base. Hind-body not quite as wide as elytra at the base, nearly twice their 

 length, basal three segments horizontal, the 1st slightly shorter than the 

 others, the terminal narrow, with a distinct median notch so as to appear 

 obtusely bifid at the extremity. 



Legs elongate, moderately stout, tibiae slightly arched externally. 



Antennae stout, scarcely as long as head and thorax, basal joint punc- 

 tate, its length double the breadth, the next short and oviform, 3rd obconical 

 but small ; joints 4-8 subequal, as thick as the 2nd, all narrowed apically ; 

 9th and 10th distinctly broader, transverse, the terminal conical, rather 

 longer than the penultimate. 



Ventral segments 2-4 increase, 5th rather shorter, 6th rather shorter 

 than 5th, widely emarginate, 7th sub(|uadrate, widely notched at the 

 extremity, and its base with a flat, broad, ()l)tusely triangular lamina 

 •occupying half of the whole surface. 



