296 COLEOPTEHA. 



3495, a Greymouth specimen in tiie British Museum, but tlie structure of 

 the ventral segments is very different ; the elytra of 3495 are subc^uadate, 

 and the lateral thoracic foveae are deep and subrotundate but not prolonged 

 anteriorly. 



cJ. Length, 1;'5 luiu. ; breadtli, (piitc }^ mm. 



Epsom, base of Mount Eden. One male in my own collection, 17th 

 November, 1912, and a female on the 9th December, 1912. 



3713. Euplectopsis cuneiceps sp. iiov. 



Elongate, subparallel, only slightly convex, very glossy ; dark rufous, 

 legs and antennae liglit chestnut-red, tarsi and palpi yellow ; very thinly 

 clothed with decumbent greyish pubescence. 



Head much smaller than thorax, with obtuse hind angles, gradually 

 narrowed anteriorly ; finely and irregularly punctate, frontal depression 

 furcate and terminating farther back than the eyes in a pair of distinct 

 foveae, antennal tubercles well separated, the occiput somewhat convex, 

 and with a minute angular depression behind. Eyes situated behind the 

 middle, small, composed of very few coarse facets. Thorax oviform, slightly 

 longer than broad, moderately rounded and widest at the middle, its apex 

 hardly as broad as the occiput ; it is distantly, quite perceptibly and irre- 

 gularly punctured, discal longitudinal groove well marlced but not reaching 

 the apex, basal fossa angular, not distinctly united to the lateral foveae, 

 these are moderately large and deep, each with a feebly curved linear pro- 

 longation, so that in some aspects the middle of each side seems a little 

 swollen. Eh^tra subquadrate, gently curvedly narrowed near the base, 

 hardly broader than the thorax there, of about the same length as it is ; 

 they are indistinctly punctate, sutural striae well marked, foveiform at the 

 base, intrahumeral impressions deep at the base, prolonged but more shallow 

 at the middle. Hind-body of the same 'ength and breadth as elytra, in- 

 distinctly punctate, basal three segments subequal, the 1st wdth a small 

 median basal dep^-ession. 



Legs moderately elongate, simple, tibiae only very slightly curved 

 externally. 



Antennae shorter than the head and thorax, 2nd joint oblong, longt, 

 than the basal, the next very little longer than broad, joints 4 to 8 short and 

 inoniliform ; 9th rather broader than (Sth, but not as broad as the 10th ; the 

 terminal large, conical and acuminate, equalling the preceding three in length. 



Underside rufescent, finely pubescent. Prosternum not carinate. Basal 

 ventral segment covered by femora, 2nd and 3rd rather longer than the 

 next, Sth shorter, widely but not deeply emarginate ; 6th large, rounded 

 behind. 



The cuneiform head, sculpture of thorax and elytra, glossy surface, and 

 absence of the prosternal carina show that the only specimen discovered 

 as yet, a female, is most likely the exponent of a distinct genus. It must 

 be located in a section by itself. 



9. Length, 1| mm. ; breadth, neiirly I mm. 



Epsom, base of Mount Eden. Found amongst dead leaves on very 

 rough scoria in November, 1911. 



3714. Euplectopsis bryocharis sp. uov. 



Elongate, slightly convex, uitid ; fusco-rufous, legs and antennae paler, 

 tarsi and palpi yellow : rather thickly covered, except the head and thorax, 

 with subdepressed, distinct, greyish pubescence; 



